[company_age]25.0[/company_age][employees]11-50 employees[/employees][description]Lear is a specialized economic consultancy that leverages microeconomic modeling and quantitative tools to address diverse issues. The company assists firms and their legal counsel in proceedings before national and supranational competition authorities for suspected antitrust violations or ex-ante merger reviews. Lear also provides expert damage quantification in civil claims before national courts involving anticompetitive practices, intellectual property or trademark infringements, and contractual breaches. Additionally, the company undertakes research projects, policy evaluations, and impact assessments in the field of competition policy and beyond, on behalf of institutional clients such as the European Commission, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the World Bank. Lear's work encompasses the quantification of damages caused by a cartel in the medium and heavy truck market, the assessment of the competitive effects of a merger in the gasoline retailing sector, and an evaluation of so-called killer acquisitions in the pharmaceutical sector.[/description][ps]Microeconomic modeling, quantitative tools, expert damage quantification, research projects, policy evaluations, impact assessments.[/ps]