Luke Wainscoat

Dr. Wainscoat is an economist specializing in competition, regulatory, and damages matters in Australia and New Zealand.

He has two decades of experience advising private and government clients on antitrust issues including mergers, cartels, anticompetitive agreements, and misuses of market power. Dr. Wainscoat has served as an economic expert in both the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Victoria, and has worked for clients in a wide range of industries, from advertising and digital platforms to banking, insurance, transportation, and utilities.

Recognized as one of Australia’s leading competition economists by Lexology Index (previously, Who’s Who Legal), Dr. Wainscoat’s expertise extends to merger clearance processes, concerted practices, applications for authorization, access to bottleneck facilities, cartel investigations, the effects of agreements on competition, and exclusive dealing. Dr. Wainscoat also advises clients and has provided expert testimony on commercial damages matters. He has additional experience managing regulatory projects, particularly in the energy, telecommunications, and rail sectors.

Prior to joining Brattle, Dr. Wainscoat spent 14 years as an Economist at consultancies in Sydney. He previously worked as an Economist at the United Kingdom’s Office of Fair Trading (the predecessor to the Competition and Markets Authority). The section editor of the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law, Dr. Wainscoat also lectures on competition and regulatory economics at the University of Sydney.