INVESTORS AND COMPANIES
Assessing competition and markets
We help investors and asset owners to…
Avoid problems with competition authorities, and protect themselves from market manipulation, as they implement their business strategies.
Advice to Spark on Proposed Telco-Pay TV Merger, New Zealand
Telecommunication company Vodafone and pay-tv company SKY Television wanted to merge. Castalia’s analysis helped convince the Commerce Commission, the competition authority in New Zealand, that the merger was anti-competitive. What are the potential effects on competition when content providers (those who produce programs) and delivery platforms (broadband and mobile services) propose vertical integration? We analyzed the implications and were able to provide a good test of the effects of vertical integration between content and delivery platforms in telecommunications. Read more
California Power Market FERC Refund Proceedings, USA
Castalia developed a counterfactual market model of fair market electricity prices in California to assess evidence of market manipulation during the California power crisis. After power marketers disputed FERC-ordered refunds to power purchasers, expert testimony was needed to identify which price spikes were a result of market manipulation. Read more
Services
We help investors and asset owners to profit from sector transformation caused by disruptive technologies and regulatory changes ... Read more
Transform enterprises. We identify: business constraints, strategic assets, and market opportunities, then develop strategies that remove constraints, build on strategic ... Read more
We help investors and asset holders to advocate market designs that will enable investor returns while serving the public interest ... Read more
We help investors and asset holders to avoid problems with competition authorities, and protect themselves from market manipulation, as they ... Read more
We help investors to make the case to regulators supporting the tariffs utilities need to earn reasonable profits and for ... Read more
We help investors and asset holders to originate proprietary deal flow for investors, identifying and developing invest-able opportunities ... Read more
We help investors and asset holder to perform due diligence on the commercial, regulatory, market and political aspects of a ... Read more
We help investors and asset holders to attract blended finance to infrastructure investments, through mechanisms such as Viability Gap Funding, ... Read more
We help investors and asset holders by providing authoritative, independent expert testimony on competition, access to essential infrastructure, regulation and ... Read more
We help investors and asset holders to ensure that policies and regulations do not damage business growth and dynamism, by ... Read more
Resource management and environmental sustinability by advising on cap-and-trade systems for emissions, carbon taxes, renewable portfolio credits and other mechanisms ... Read more
