Global Competition Review recognizes Cornerstone Research in the 2024 edition of the GCR 100.
Global Competition Review (GCR) again named Cornerstone Research one of the world’s outstanding global economic consultancies. Compiled annually, the GCR 100 provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the law firms and economic consultancies doing the most important antitrust work around the world. The 2024 GCR 100 assessment formally covers experience and personnel during the period 31 May 2022 through 31 May 2023. More recent developments may also be considered.
Describing Cornerstone Research as “ideally placed to tackle the most complex and demanding competition mandates” and citing its deep bench of competition consultants and experts, GCR also highlights the multiple “important personnel” who joined the firm in 2023.
“Cornerstone Research is ideally placed to tackle the most complex and demanding competition mandates.”
Experienced senior hires to the antitrust and competition and merger investigations practices include Anca Cojoc (London), Kirti Gupta (San Francisco), Gregor Langus (Brussels), Christopher Lau (San Francisco), Joseph Podwol (Washington), and Joanna Tsai (Washington). GCR also notes the opening of Cornerstone Research’s Brussels office in October, which was established to strengthen support for its growing European practice.
“Barely a month went by in 2023 without an important personnel announcement by Cornerstone Research.”
Celeste Saravia (San Francisco), Kostis Hatzitaskos (Chicago), and Liam Colley (London) lead nearly two hundred competition specialists working on antitrust litigation and investigations across the United States, in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia.
Praising the firm for its recent “excellent form,” GCR named high-profile matters on which Cornerstone Research provided support. These include:
- Canadian Pacific Railway/Kansas City Southern
- Amazon/MGM–The firm was honored for outstanding economic work in this $8.5 billion acquisition, which GCR named Matter of the Year.
- United States v. Bertelsmann Se & Co. KGaA et al.
- U.S. and Plaintiff States v. American Airlines Group Inc. and JetBlue Airways Corp.