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New York—NERA Economic Consulting, a leading global provider of economic advice and analysis in business, legal, and regulatory matters, is pleased to announce that Marcelo Rabinovich has been promoted to Associate Director, and Dr. Devalina Chatterjee, Edward Flores, Dr. C.-Philipp Heller, Sungi Lee, and Janeen McIntosh have been promoted to Senior Consultant.
Associate Director
Marcelo Rabinovich specializes in the economics of energy markets applied to regulation, due diligence, competition policy, market design, and litigation. He has advised utilities and investors in matters related to the remuneration of regulated activities, including due diligence of network assets and estimation of cost of capital in Spain and other European countries. Mr. Rabinovich has broad experience in wholesale electricity market modeling and bidding strategy and has assisted companies in several investigations on competition policy issues. His experience also covers litigation cases on contractual and regulatory disputes in Europe and Latin America, which have been heard before courts and arbitration panels.
Senior Consultant
Dr. Devalina Chatterjee conducts economic research and analysis concerning issues arising from patent, trademark, and copyright infringement, as well as the misappropriation of trade secrets, breaches of contract, and anticompetitive behavior. She has expertise in applying economic theory, statistics, and complex econometrics tools to analyze damages and calculate lost profits and reasonable royalties, and has done so in a wide range of industries, including consumer goods, gaming, software, technology, and pharmaceuticals, among others.
Edward Flores specializes in securities class action litigation and has supported expert testimony for securities litigation, asset valuation disputes, and insider trading cases. He has conducted economic, financial, and statistical analyses in issues such as market efficiency and class certification, assessing materiality and loss causation, and estimating damages across equity, debt, and derivative securities. His experience spans a number of industries, including pharmaceuticals, financial services, information technology, consumer goods, and energy, among others.
Dr. C.-Philipp Heller advises clients in all aspects of competition and antitrust economics. He has experience working on cartel damages litigation, national and international merger notifications, and international arbitration, as well as government antitrust investigations and regulatory procedures. He is a skilled user of a variety of theoretical, empirical, and econometric techniques, including game theory, surveys, and regression analysis. Dr. Heller has written research articles on topics including the competition economics of sports media rights, regulation of self-driving cars, exclusionary bundle discounts, and the pass-on of overcharges.
Sungi Lee is a member of NERA’s Global Securities and Finance Practice where he specializes in damages, valuation, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, and class certification matters in state and federal litigation, mediation, and arbitration. Mr. Lee advises clients on fixed income securities, funds and portfolios, structured products, derivatives, and securitizations, and applies economic, financial, and accounting analysis to assess claims and allegations. In addition, he models, projects, and values claims and liabilities in product liability and mass torts cases, including asbestos, silica, coal mine dust, recalls, and automobiles, as well as transaction due diligence. Mr. Lee also supports academic experts in the preparation of expert reports, deposition, and trial testimony.
Janeen McIntosh has over 15 years of experience in financial and economic advisory and litigation consulting for matters in the area of securities and finance, product liability and mass torts, and labor and employment. Ms. McIntosh has consulted on securities class actions examining materiality, loss causation, and liability. Her work on these cases has included estimating inflation, damages, and settlement ranges. She has also conducted analyses for class certification and market efficiency. She frequently works with large data sets, designing models to evaluate liability and performing various statistical analyses. Ms. McIntosh is the lead author for NERA’s annual securities class action trends report series.