David Wirth Email & Phone Number

London

• I am Head of Economics in Ashurst's Competition team. I have significant expertise in leading teams and advising clients on all aspects of UK and EU competition law. This includes:
• advising on the economic analysis of mergers and acquisitions. Recent cases include: two Phase 2 investigations - Cardtronics/DC Payments, and UHS/Cambian Adult Services, Caretech's acquisition of Cambian, Arla's.
• advising clients in relation to market studies and investigations (including the retail banking, private healthcare, audit, local bus services and groceries market investigations, and advising Worldpay in the PSR's.
• advising dominant undertakings on the regulatory risk of engaging in certain types of conduct (i.e. abuse of dominance cases);
• advising on anti-competitive practices and agreements (i.e. cartels);
• calculating damages in competition litigation cases (a recent case includes advising a large claimant in relation to the European Commission's truck cartel decision), and I co-authored a report for the European.

London, United Kingdom

I worked on the development, drafting and enactment of the Enterprise Act 2002, which overhauled UK mergers and market investigations legislation. I also worked closely on the UK’s input into the reform of the EC Merger Regulation, and the cross media ownership rules.I also advised on a number of high profile UK (under the Fair Trading Act) and EC merger.

I provided economic advice and sovereign debt/corporate risk assessments on countries in the Latin America and Caribbean regions.

I advised on a number of high profile UK and EC merger cases under the Fair Trading Act (including all local newspaper mergers).

I provided economic advice on price and revenue effects of changes in duty and indirect taxes for the 1996 and 1997 Budgets.

Ma (Hons) First Class, Economics

Msc, Economics