Dr Simone Kohnz is a Director at E.CA Economics in Berlin. She has 20 years of experience in economic consulting advising clients in competition and litigation cases before the European Commission as well as national competition authorities and courts in Germany, Austria, the European Union, Spain, and Portugal. In recent years, she has specialised in the quantification of damages in private litigation cases. She has advised clients and drafted expert witness reports for cartel and information exchange cases in a variety of industries including trucks, cosmetics, retail banking, waste management, payment cards, sugar, timber, bumpers and turntable ladders, emergency vehicles, district heating, FMCG, retail, and de-icing salt.
Her portfolio includes significant corporate merger cases, among them CRH/Buzzi, Strabag/Sitec, Miba/Zollern, Knorr/Bremse, H+H/Xella, Strabag/Lafarge, Imerys/Pará Pigmentos, Comcast/NBC Universal, Strabag/Cemex, Dr Oetker/Schwan, TomTom/TeleAtlas and Rewe/Adeg, as well as feasibility studies across various sectors. She has also advised on regulatory and abuse cases in telecommunications, sports, consumer goods, transport, and pharmaceuticals.
Since 2019, Simone has testified in numerous damages cases before Spanish courts, served as a court-appointed expert in Germany, and is a generally sworn and court-certified expert before the Austrian ...
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Distinguished by her ability to "really get to the bottom of the case", Simone Kohnz combines a deep understanding of economic analysis and impressive experience to advise on cartel, information exchange and damages quantification across multiple European jurisdictions.