Simone Kohnz

Dr Simone Kohnz is a Director at E.CA Economics in Berlin. She has 20 years of experience in economic consulting advising clients from a wide range of industries, in all fields of competition policy and across a number of jurisdictions including Germany, the European Union, the UK, and Austria. 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 European-wide, German and Austrian cartel and information exchange cases in a variety of industries including trucks, payment cards, sugar, bumpers and turntable ladders, district heating, fast-moving consumer goods and de-icing salt. Simone regularly testifies as an economic expert in private litigation court cases.

Furthermore, Simone has considerable experience in mergers; she has managed the economic analysis in a large number of proceedings; including mergers in the fast-moving consumer goods industry (e.g. Rewe/Adeg), automotive supply (e.g. Knorr/Bremse), construction (e.g. H+H/Xella) and cement (e.g. Strabag/Lafarge). Furthermore, she has worked on a number of regulatory cases in telecommunication, transport and pharmaceuticals sectors.

Prior to joining E.CA, Simone was an analyst at the European competition practice at NERA Economic Consulting in London. Simone holds a Doctorate in bargaining theory from the University of Munich.

A detailed CV can be downloaded here.