Allan Shampine

Allan L. Shampine is an executive vice president at Compass Lexecon in Chicago, where he also serves on the firm’s Executive Committee and Chicago Management Committee.

His work focuses on antitrust and competition economics, particularly telecommunications, payment systems, and intellectual property. He has worked on major antitrust matters involving mergers and monopolization, including the AT&T-Time Warner merger litigation and the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust litigation against Meta.

Shampine is an editor of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Source. He is also the editor of “Down to the Wire: Studies in the Diffusion and Regulation of Telecommunications Technologies” and has written and presented on payment systems, interchange fees, telecommunications, intellectual property, standard-essential patents, and technology diffusion.

Shampine earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from the University of Chicago. He earned a bachelor’s in economics and systems analysis, summa cum laude, from Southern Methodist University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.