Thomas Kessler

Thomas Kessler is a senior director in the competition practice, working between London and the firm’s Brussels office. He leads economic work on cartel damages, collective actions and abuse-of-dominance cases, and has given expert evidence before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the High Court and courts in Germany and the Netherlands in more than twenty proceedings.

His work spans financial services, transport, energy and consumer goods. He is known for his analysis of distribution and certification in opt-out collective proceedings, and for testing theories of exclusion against firms’ own pricing and cost data. He also advises on merger control before the European Commission and the UK competition authority.

Before joining Pemberton & Co. he spent five years in the Chief Economist Team at the European Commission, working on cartel, abuse and merger cases, and then led the Brussels competition team of an economics consultancy. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Mannheim and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.

He is ranked in Band 1 for competition economists by the leading directories and is a member of the Association of Competition Economics. He speaks on collective actions and damages quantification at competition law conferences in London and Brussels, and has contributed to a practitioner guide on the economics of pass-on.