Director

Mette Alfter

Mette Alfter

Mette works in Frontier’s competition practice and heads our Brussels office. She has been working as an economic consultant in this area since 1999.

She handles competition cases across Frontier’s Brussels, Cologne/Berlin and London offices, advising clients on merger cases, cartel cases including damages evaluation, litigation cases and the assessment of market power and abusive conduct. She has worked on a large number of competition cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities and courts, particularly in Germany, but also in other countries such as Austria, Denmark and the UK - spanning a wide range of industries. Interesting recent cases she has advised on include the merger between Accuride and mefro wheels in the area steel wheels (ECMR, Phase I), potential damages claims in Germany following the Google Shopping decision by the European Commission, and advice to AGC on follow-on damages claims by German insurance companies (indirect customers) in relation to the car glass cartel case.

Mette is regularly listed in the Who’s Who lists, including most recently the Who’s Who Legal: Competition - Economists 2019. And she has been recognised as one of the “40 in their 40s - Notable Women competition Professionals in Europe, the Americas and Africa” by W@.

Mette has previously worked for RBB Economics (Brussels) and NERA (Brussels and London). She is half German and half Danish, and fluent also in English and French.

Q&A

What weird food combinations do you enjoy?

Cheese with raspberry jam

Last thing you asked Google?

Opening hours of the Malaysian embassy

What’s your go to coffee order?

2 large Cappuccinos