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Economic advisory
Our economic advisory team provides independent, evidence-based advice to organisations facing complex commercial, regulatory and policy challenges. We combine rigorous economic analysis with deep sector and regulatory expertise to support decision-making, manage risk and resolve disputes.
Our experts work across industries, with specialists in regulated, policy-driven markets, including:
- Financial services and payments
- Energy and utilities
- Infrastructure
- Transport and aviation
- Telecoms and digital infrastructure
- Healthcare and life sciences
From the boardroom to the courtroom, clients count on us as strategic advisers and independent experts. We help businesses, governments, economic regulators, arm’s-length bodies and their legal advisers, combining technical expertise and practical experience to inform decision-making, manage risk and resolve disputes.
Experts and advisers, economy-wide
S&W economists help shape policy positions, respond to regulatory scrutiny, write expert reports, and provide testimony on regulatory, competition and consumer protection issues. We also act as experts in litigation often involving complex counterfactual analysis and the use of specialist quantitative techniques to estimate quantum. Our work includes class actions, follow-on damages claims and securities litigation.
When issues are complex and subject to intensive scrutiny, we’re a trusted partner, offering robust insights and economic analysis.
Explore our economic services
Across the UK and internationally, we support a wide range of clients with both contentious and advisory issues.
Competition services
Expert economic analysis on competition and anti-trust issues, across subsidy control, mergers, market investigations, competition damages and litigation. Our work covers market definition, assessments of competitive effects and profitability, damages analysis and expert witness work in complex competition cases.
Disputes and litigation
Independent and advisory experts for commercial, regulatory and competition disputesServices include damages and quantum assessment causation analysis, bankruptcy, insolvency and AI intelligence, as well as counterfactual modelling and evidence for litigation, arbitration and tribunals.
Regulatory economics and policy
Advising governments, regulators and arms-length bodies on policy development and evaluation, as well as the economic design, implementation and impact assessment of remedies across regulated sectors. This includes consultation support and strategic advice to help clients navigate evolving regulatory and government policy environments
Regulatory and competition finance
Helping organisations navigate regulatory and competition finance requirements. With a deep sector expertise, we provide profitability analysis, regulatory costing and financeability reviews, alongside independent assurance for regulators, boards and stakeholders.
Economics of strategy
Economic thinking for strategic decision-making, promoting understanding of markets, incentives and risks. We help with business planning, pricing strategies, marketing effectiveness assessments, investment appraisals and market entry and exit decisions. We assess business models in competitive and regulated environments.
Economic valuation and inference
Rigorous econometric and quantitative techniques to value businesses, assets and economic losses, and draw robust inferences from complex data. Our work supports disputes, regulatory submissions and strategic decisions, including valuation modelling, causal analysis, forecasting and the interpretation of empirical evidence.
Why choose S&W?
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Trusted partners
Clients count on us when the issues are complex, the stakes are high and outcomes matter. Responding to investigations, shaping policy, supporting transactions or acting as independent experts, we bring experience and expertise you can rely on.
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Technical expertise
Across economics, econometrics and data analytics, we deliver robust, credible work that stands up to scrutiny from regulators, competition authorities or in courts. We combine rigorous economics with a clear understanding of legal and evidential standards.
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Real-world experience
Our professionals bring industry, regulatory and government experience, with a particular strength in sectors where economics, finance and policy intersect. We understand how decisions are made and what drives commercial and policy outcomes.
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Integrated support
S&W’s economic experts work closely with the firm’s professionals in the UK and abroad across accounting, valuations, investigations, restructuring and sustainability. Clients benefit from comprehensive advice and services for complete, joined-up solutions.
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