Cambridge Forum on European Digital Regulation & Policy

Robin is a Partner at Oxera with more than 15 years’ experience, specialising in competition economics and quantifying damages. He leads Oxera’s work on disputes and damages quantification as co-chair of its Litigation and Arbitration practice. He led the Oxera team that worked on the 2009 study commissioned by the European Commission to set out the methods used to quantify antitrust damages; this study formed the basis of the Commission’s own guidance to national courts in 2013. He has provided training to judges and lawyers from various EU member states on competition economics. He has a wide range of experience in competition-related disputes, mergers, and abuse of dominance investigations, working on cases in the UK, Ireland, the USA, the Netherlands and Germany. He has acted for both claimants/applicants and defendants/respondents in these matters. Robin has worked on more than 40 damages quantification cases. In particular, he was the testifying expert in the UK’s first application for a class action: Dorothy Gibson vs Pride Mobility, in the Competition Appeal Tribunal. He is listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists. Robin has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Global Competition Litigation Review and the Competition Law Journal, and has acted as a reviewer for articles in the Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences and the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement.

Anselm Rodenhausen joined Video Games Europe in November of 2023 as Vice President Legal and Policy. Anselm joins from Zalando where he headed up the antitrust law team in Berlin, responsible for the group’s competition and distribution law matters in 25 markets. Prior to this, he focussed on the digital sector in different positions: as a lawyer/Principal Associate in the Brussels office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, representing telecoms, platforms and tech companies; and as a Legal & Policy Officer with the European Commission (DG CONNECT) helping to develop the Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy. Anselm has published articles on a number of legal aspects of the digital world and holds a PhD in law from the University of Muenster.

Dimos Dakanalis is acting as Oracle’s Chief Antitrust Counsel and has almost 20 years of experience advising on competition law, especially in relation to the tech sector. Prior to Oracle, Dimos worked for international law firm Clifford Chance in Brussels and London until 2012.

He is advising Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, distribution and licensing, competition compliance and antitrust investigations by competition authorities worldwide. He has represented Oracle on its most important acquisitions in the last 15 years (including Oracle/Siebel, Oracle/BEA, Oracle/Sun, Oracle/Netsuite and Oracle/Cerner) and in the Microsoft antitrust cases before the European Commission and the European courts.

Dimos holds a BA Hons. in Jurisprudence, a BCL in European and Comparative Law and an MPhil in Competition Law from Oxford University.

Stephen Kinsella OBE is founder of Clean Up The Internet, a UK non-profit campaigning for action to address the harm caused by fake and anonymous social media accounts, whose work was instrumental in securing the inclusion of a "user identity verification duty" in the Online Safety Bill. A competition lawyer by background, he's previously been Managing Partner of Herbert Smith’s Brussels office and global head of antitrust at Sidley, and is currently a Senior Advisor at Flint Global. Stephen is also a founder of public interest legal project Law For Change. In 2024 Stephen was recognised by the Law Society with a "Legal Hero" award "for his exceptional contributions to legal practice and social justice".

Kristina has led high-profile international EU antitrust, merger and state aid cases for over two decades and is known for her deep understanding of how EU institutions work. She has a leading litigation practice in the Court of Justice of the EU.

Kristina regularly advises on a wide range of EU antitrust issues, with the technology and life sciences sectors a particular focus. At her prior firm, Kristina was regular EU competition counsel on M&A, collaborations and tech transactions for a number of important clients in the technology space. She has advised on an acquisition of a NFT marketplace as well as a potential significant cross-border deal in the media/ad production space. In recent years, Kristina has focused in particular on the tech sector and antitrust investigations involving apps stores, online marketplaces and restrictions on online selling, big data concerns, video game distribution, access to online payment services, and advising several of the world’s leading tech platforms impacted by the EU’s recently adopted Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Kristina frequently speaks at or moderates tech-focused antitrust panels at leading IBA, ABA, GCR or other industry conferences. She is an acknowledged thought leader in the antitrust field and among other accolades, has been recognised in Global Competition Review’s Women in Antitrust 2021, 2016, 2013 and 2009 and as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal: Competition 2022. In addition, in 2017, Kristina was named as a ‘Top 10 Innovator’ in Europe by the Financial Times for Court of Justice litigation using EU free movement rules to open up markets to an online pharmacy.
 

Shlayane holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Carleton University in Ottawa, ON. 

Prior to joining the Cambridge team, she has developed a robust expertise in the event industry having orchestrated a diverse range of events from intimate gatherings to large-scale corporate functions. Shlay has successfully managed events for clients such as Fashion Bomb Daily, SickKids, Pinterest, and more showcasing her ability to handle complex logistics and creative challenges with ease. 

Outside of the office, Shlay enjoys spin class, reading by the beach, and endless karaoke nights with her family.