Stephen Lewis is a Partner based in the London office of RBB Economics. He has significant experience in merger assessment and abuse of dominance investigations, with a particular emphasis on the tech sector. He joined RBB in 2005 after studying economics at Oxford University and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is listed in the Competition Economists section of Who’s Who Legal.
Stephen’s experience covers a range of sectors and includes cases that raised novel issues in relation to data, algorithms and innovation. Stephen has advised Google on competition matters for over 10 years, leading the RBB teams on the Google Search (Shopping), Google Android and Google Search (AdSense) EC cases, as well as on a number of other investigations around the world.
He has advised on a number of ECMR cases including GE/Smiths Aerospace, TUI/First Choice, Google/DoubleClick, Google/Motorola, Zimmer/Biomet, Western Digital/SanDisk and Dow/DuPont, as well as cases before the UK authorities, including Waterstone’s/Ottakar’s, SvitzerWijsmuller/AdSteam Marine, Ticketmaster/LiveNation, Nike/Umbro, Google/BeatThatQuote, AG Barr/Britvic and Google/Waze.
He has also advised clients in a number of litigation and arbitration cases involving both Article 101 and Article 102 disputes. His experience in this area covers the analysis of the competitive effects of agreements between firms and the assessment of allegedly abusive conduct.
Stephen has published articles in European Competition Law Review, ABA Antitrust Magazine, the e-Competitions Bulletin and the Information Systems & Economics e-Journal, and is a co-author of The Economic Assessment of Mergers under European Competition Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Stephen holds an honours degree in Economics and Management from Oxford University and an MSc in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.