Miguel de la Mano is a Partner at RBB Economics. He is an experienced economist, having worked at both the EU Commission and the UK CMA. He joined Compass Lexecon in 2015, where he was Executive Vice President. Miguel de la Mano has particular experience of advising on large global transactions. He led a team of experienced financial economists in support of the EU Commission’s unprecedented regulatory overhaul of EU banking, insurance and financial markets. He has co-drafted guidelines setting out the European Commission’s analytical framework on merger control, vertical and horizontal agreements (Article 101) as well as single firm conduct (Article 102). He also co-drafted “guidelines on the submission on economic evidence” for DG COMP and the “new market investigation guidelines” for the former UK Competition Commission. He completed graduate studies in economics at the Institute for World Economics in Kiel, Germany, and the European Institute at Saarbrucken University, Germany. He conducted his Ph.D. research at Oxford University, UK.