Stefano Trento is a Vice President in Compass Lexecon’s European competition policy practice. He has more than ten years of experience in the analysis of markets and competition, first as an academic at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the UAB, and – since 2011 – as a consultant at Compass Lexecon. Stefano Trento has assisted legal teams in a large number of Article 102 TFEU cases (including in major cellular standard essential patent cases), Article 101 TFEU cases (including for several retailers in the litigations against MasterCard and Visa before the UK High Court and the Court of Appeal), and follow-on damages claims (including in relation to the trucks cartel). His advisory work also covers judicial challenges to regulatory measures (including for British American Tobacco in multiple jurisdictions by estimating the effects of plain packaging on cigarette consumption; and for Hutchison 3G in the context of termination rate appeal at UK Competition Appeal Tribunal), and merger review both at the EU level (Hutchison 3G / O2 Ireland) and at the UK level (BT / EE).