Nicola has over 25 years of experience working on competition and antitrust cases at UK and EU competition authorities, as well as for private sector clients.

Nicola has advised a range of corporate clients across many sectors on all aspects of competition and regulatory economics and strategy, helping firms getting their mergers approved, minimizing the risk of regulatory intervention and developing strategy to succeed in changing regulatory environments.

Prior to joining Ali😝artners, Nicola was the Global Head of Economics at KPMG. Prior to that, he was Head of Policy Analysis at the UK Competition Commission (CC). While at the CC Nicola was involved in the development of best practice in a number of key areas.

Nicola holds a PhD and an MSc in Economics. He has published papers on various aspects of competition economics and policy and has taught competition economics at universities in the UK and Europe.