Compecon Limited - Who We Are.

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Compecon Limited is an independent economic consultancy specialising in the application of state of the art economic analysis to competition policy issues, mergers and industry regulation. Founded in 2001 and based in Dublin, Compecon has established itself as one of the leading Irish economic consulting firms in competition and regulatory issues. Compecon is directed by Patrick Massey, an economist with 30 years experience in both the private and public sectors in Ireland and overseas. It also has access to a number of leading academic economists. This means that Compecon is in a unique position to offer high quality analysis and advice to clients on competition and regulatory matters.

Compecon has advised many of Ireland’s leading companies on competition matters, mergers and regulatory issues. Clients include Bank of Scotland (Ireland); Beamish and Crawford; Bord na Mona; Channel 6; The Competition Authority; the Construction Industry Federation; Department of Health; Department of the Taoiseach; Department of Public Enterprise; Eirgrid; Grafton Group; Indaver (Ireland) Ltd.; ISME; the Irish League of Credit Unions; Irish Timber Council; Kerry Group; Metro; MyHome.ie; Musgraves; O’Briens Irish Sandwich Bars; One51; Port of Cork Company; Ryanair; Sustainable Energy Ireland; TV3; UTV; Vodafone; and Ward Anderson Cinema Group.

COMPECON’S KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE ARE IN:

Competition Policy Analysis and Litigation. Cases include Competition Authority v Irish League of Credit Unions; Report in support of complaint by the Coach Tourism and Transport Council to the European Commission.

Merger Analysis cases include Heineken/Beamish & Crawford; TV3/Channel 6); Kerry/Breeo;

Eirgrid/SONI; Coillte/Weyerhaeuser; Irish Times/MyHome.ie; Topaz/Statoil.

Public Utility Regulation. Cases include Vodafone/O2 appeal against joint dominance ruling by ComReg;

Regulatory Policy. Expert witness for Department of Health in cases challenging the Dentists Act and the Opticians Act. Reports on competition in banking services; on the imposition of levies for waste packaging; on the Retail Planning Guidelines and on the Groceries Order.

Patrick Massey

Director Compecon

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Patrick Massey - Biographical Note.

Patrick Massey established Compecon in 2001. Previously he was a member of the Irish Competition Authority for ten years including four years as the Authority’s Director of Competition Enforcement where he was responsible for directing several major investigations into anti-competitive behaviour. He has lectured on the economics of competition and regulation at NUI, Maynooth and at Trinity College Dublin.

From 1991 to 2001 Patrick Massey represented the Competition Authority on the OECD Committee on Competition Law and Policy and the EU Advisory Committee on Restrictive Practices and Dominant Positions. He has acted as an advisor to the State Competition Protection Office in Lithuania and assisted in OECD training programmes for competition authorities in Eastern Europe and the CIS. In April 2002 he addressed a joint UNOHR/OECD conference on the reform of network industries in Bosnia/Herzegovina.

Prior to joining the Competition Authority, Patrick Massey worked as a senior economist with the New Zealand Treasury where he was responsible for co-coordinating the Treasury’s macroeconomics forecasts, a key input in framing the annual Budget. He previously worked as an economist for six years with DKM Economic Consultants in Dublin. He also spent two years teaching economics at NIHE Limerick and lectured on Economic and Legal Aspects of Competition Policy in Trinity College Dublin in 1999-2000.

He is the author of New Zealand: Market Liberalisation in a Developed Economy and co-author of Competition Law and Policy in Ireland and Competition and Regulation in Ireland The Law and Economics. He has written a substantial number of articles on economic policy generally and competition policy in particular which have been published in Irish and international journals. (For a full list of publications click Publications here)

Patrick Massey is a member of the Irish Economics Association; the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland; The Royal Economics Society; The American Economic Association; the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics; the Network of Industrial Economics and the Competition Law Scholars Forum. He is a director of Repak Limited.

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