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We provide economic analysis and expert testimony in mergers and acquisitions across a variety of industries. We analyze liability and damages in cases involving allegations of price fixing and collusion, monopolization, abuse of dominance, and other anticompetitive practices. Our capabilities are reflected in our rigorous arguments, economic analyses of complex data sets, advanced econometric techniques, and sophisticated simulation models used to assess competitive effects in litigation and merger proceedings.
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Our experts work with clients on commercial damages issues arising from a variety of actions including antitrust, patent infringement, breach of contract, fraudulent disclosure, toxic tort, and product liability. We present our economic analyses clearly and defend principled economic and finance arguments while exposing the flaws in opposing opinions. We have provided expert testimony in federal and state courts, in administrative proceedings, and before U.S. and international arbitrators and mediators. We also provide support to leading academic experts.
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We offer economic, finance, engineering, and regulatory expertise in virtually every area of environmental policy and litigation. We apply our multidisciplinary expertise to liability estimation, the allocation and recovery of costs, claims of property value diminution, natural resource damages, insurance valuation, business damages, and non-compliance penalties. We help firms to manage liabilities, assess regulatory impacts, and develop business plans to take advantage of changing regulatory landscapes.
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We help clients to determine whether poor corporate performance was due to bad luck, incompetent management, or fraud. Our experts identify and examine the underlying economic, financial, and managerial issues that inform accounting problems, and we provide careful reconstruction and evaluation. Our work includes unraveling complex transactions based on internal planning and accounting documentation as well as providing industry and institutional context against which transactions should be reviewed. We also examine the economic incentives and information relied upon to make decisions and assess impacts.
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Our economic consultants bring to intellectual property matters rigorous economic analysis to determine damages in connection with infringement and misappropriation claims involving patents, copyrights, and trade secrets. We recognize the importance of evaluating the past and present market context to determine potential impact. Our services include expert testimony, litigation support, damages quantification, valuation, and identification of technical experts.
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We advise clients and provide expert testimony in international arbitrations across a range of industries. Our work has included analyses of liability and damages involving expropriation, breach of contract, failed business transactions, auctions, and trade and treaty disputes. We have participated in proceedings in major arbitration forums, including the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Court of Arbitration, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the American Arbitration Association.
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We provide economic analysis and expert testimony in antidumping, countervailing duty, escape clause, and Section 337 litigation. Our economists have extensive experience with disputes involving a range of high-tech, industrial, manufactured, and agricultural products. We offer sophisticated capabilities in modeling, econometrics, and financial economic consulting to support our clients, and we have appeared before the International Trade Commission, the Department of Commerce, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, and a number of foreign trade authorities.
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We offer expert testimony on statistical and economic damages issues, litigation risk assessments, identification of optimal litigation support strategies, structuring of complex settlements, valuation of potential insurance recovery, and coordination of expert witnesses. We have appeared before federal and bankruptcy courts and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings involving products such as asbestos, silica, lead, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemicals, and tanker ships.
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Our experts assist companies affected by regulation to make strategic investment, pricing, and financing decisions. We help anticipate how regulators will view the risk and value outcomes of different regulatory programs. We establish the costs and benefits of alternative arrangements, including organizational unbundling, supply hedging, provider of last resort obligations, service proliferation, and incentive ratemaking. Our team has pioneered the application of economic, finance, and accounting theory and practice to a range of matters in regulatory proceedings.
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We offer expertise in risk management issues relating to finance and commodities, energy and utilities, insurance, and other regulated industries. We bring to bear skills in statistics, computation, competitive economic analysis, valuation, and allocation modeling. We provide expert testimony in litigation proceedings, evaluate settlements, participate in negotiations, advise regulatory agencies, and assist clients in anticipating and handling strategic risk management issues.
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We advise clients and provide expert testimony in a broad range of matters involving alleged violations of federal securities laws. Our experience includes work in class actions, derivatives, executive compensation, stock options, asset-backed securities, ERISA actions, breach of fiduciary duty, valuation, and bankruptcy. Our expertise is grounded in a thorough understanding of finance and economic theory, accounting, financial products, capital markets, regulation, and industry custom and practice.
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We provide expert testimony, advice, and analysis in tax disputes for both taxpayers and taxing authorities. Our economic consultants offer experience in a broad range of tax-related issues, including alleged abusive tax shelters, domestic taxation of multinational companies, leases, transfer pricing, property taxes, natural resource taxes, and corporate-owned life insurance. We supply financial and economic analysis that bear on key judicial doctrines, and we are affiliated with renowned experts from academia and the business community.
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We assist clients with regulatory and ratemaking matters in electricity, natural gas, and oil pipeline markets worldwide. We have experience in the regulatory policies of liberalized energy markets, and in the regulation of vertically integrated utilities, power generation, transmission, and distribution. We help clients to anticipate regulatory change, comply with existing regulations, respond to new mandates, and manage the challenges of changing markets. We perform quantitative economic analyses involving resource planning, forecasting, rate design, cost allocation, cost of capital, and valuation.
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Our experts apply financial, statistical, and economic techniques across a variety of industries to value assets, liabilities, and claims. We perform valuations in the context of litigation, capital budgeting, business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, regulation, and bankruptcy. We evaluate market dynamics, risk, option and flexibility values, and we also measure profitability and identify comparable transactions. We offer independent, objective financial and forensic support and expert testimony, and we provide to clients expertise in financial modeling, market forecasting, option pricing, and decision analysis.
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