Christopher Milde

"Christopher is really good at economics and breaking it down into bite-sized chunks for the client." (2025)

Christopher Milde is a Senior Vice President with Compass Lexecon, based in Berlin, and Deputy Head of Compass Lexecon's German offices.

Christopher has more than 19 years’ experience as an economic consultant, during which he has advised clients from a wide range of industries, in all fields of competition policy and across a number of jurisdictions including Germany, the European Union, the UK and the US.

Christopher has deep expertise in the quantification of damages in the context of follow-on cartel damages litigation. He has advised clients and drafted expert witness reports in many of the most important cartel cases in Germany and the EU in various industries including air cargo, bearings, capacitors, car parts, GIS, hotel platforms, LCDs, Libor, power cables, steel, sugar, sweets, technical building equipment, toiletries, trucks, and window mountings.

Christopher also has considerable experience in merger analysis. For example, he worked for one of the parties in the Müller/Friesland Campina, Google/Fitbit, II-VI/Coherent, Loomis/Ziemann, Rewe/Lekkerland, GE/Alstom and Telefónica Germany / E-Plus transactions. He also advised several private and public German entities on state aid investigations into infrastructure funding and public broadcasting.

Prior to joining Compass Lexecon Christopher worked at various economic consulting firms in Berlin, London, Brussels and Washington, DC. Christopher holds a Ph.D. from European University Institute and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is a native German speaker, fluent in English and has conversational knowledge of Italian and French.

"Extremely qualified. He is able to react situationally in court." (2025)

"Quick and to the point. He is one of the really bright ones". (2025)

"Achieves results. Good to work with - great mind, reliable, great performance in and out of court." (2024)

"Reliable, thoughtful and has great market understanding." (2024)

"We would recommend him for his analytical skills and ability to explain economic models to clients and how individual pieces of information fit into the big picture." (2023)

"Christopher excels at providing quick and to the point advice on how certain facts impact the outcome of complex economic models." (2023)

"He provided extremely helpful strategic input to the merger control process." (2023)