Pinar Bagci

Dr. Bagci has 25 years of experience advising on the economics of competition, regulation, and damages assessment.

She is an experienced testifier who has provided economic analysis and expert witness testimony in commercial litigation and international arbitration, as well as throughout competition and regulatory investigations in Europe, Australasia, and the United States. She has advised extensively on antitrust issues concerning dominance and exclusionary conduct, including alleged foreclosure strategies and so-called raising rivals’ costs, providing testimony at trial.

Dr. Bagci has submitted expert testimony in the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal, the Amsterdam District Court, the London Court for International Arbitration (LCIA), the New York Court of Arbitration, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, the High Court of England and Wales, and the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Dr. Bagci has also submitted testimony in regulatory proceedings concerning cartels, abuse of dominance, mergers, and market investigations conducted by the European Commission (EC), the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Swiss Competition Authority, the New Zealand Commerce Commission, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the UK Payment Services Regulator.

Dr. Bagci’s testimony in relation to liability and the estimation of damages has spanned many industries, including digital markets, financial markets and benchmarks, retail banking and payments, energy, mining, chemicals, industrial products, and consumer electronic devices. Several of these industries and matters involve multi-sided markets and platforms. She is currently retained as testifying expert in several antitrust matters with private damages actions before courts in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia.