Dr. Vinita Juneja
Senior Vice President
Education
PhD and MA in economics, Harvard University
Honors BA in economics, University of Western Ontario
Experience
At NERA, Dr. Juneja directs projects chiefly in the areas of securities economics, finance, and valuation. She has been retained in hundreds of securities-related and financial valuation matters.
In shareholder suits, she has analyzed damages, materiality, and causation in both securities fraud class actions and opt-out claims involving individual securities and funds; the impact of the credit crisis on security prices; class certification, tracing, and market efficiency-related issues in securities class actions involving both equity and fixed income securities; affected trading volume in class actions; and settlement value of securities class actions.
Her securities- and finance-related work has included analyses of disputes involving subprime lending and other credit crisis related issues, including litigation involving RMBS, CDS and CDO's, the effects of alleged insider trading on stock prices and tender offer premiums, analyses of materiality and loss avoidance in insider trading matters, suitability and mis-selling claims in broker-customer disputes involving a wide variety of securities and financial products, ERISA-related claims,manipulation, fund advisor fee structures, valuation of restricted stock and costs of illiquidity, damages, liability and settlement value in derivative lawsuits, the impact of stock repurchases, valuation of financial assets, and business valuation, including reviews of merger/acquisition due diligence and lost profits claims. She has also worked in insurance coverage disputes analyzing the reasonableness of settlements in various types of financial disputes, including securities fraud class actions and derivative suits.
Dr. Juneja has testified and submitted affidavit and expert report testimony in US federal district and state court proceedings, in Canadian court, in Israeli district court, and in arbitrations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Her arbitration and mediation experience includes appearances before the American Arbitration Association, the International Dispute Resolution Centre in London, the NASD, the NYSE, and the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services. She is also an arbitrator for FINRA. She has spoken frequently and published on various dispute related topics including damages, settlements, and broker-customer disputes.
Languages
English
French
Hindi
Italian
