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Tel: +1 212 345 3000
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Email: erin.mchugh@nera.com
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MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management
BA, magna cum laude, in economics and French, Amherst College
Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) charterholder
Erin McHugh is an Associate Director in NERA’s Securities and Finance Practice and in the International Arbitration Practice. She has over 10 years of experience managing projects globally in the areas of economics, finance, and valuation. Ms. McHugh has consulted on litigation and arbitration matters in various venues, including US federal and state courts, US domestic and international arbitration forums, and UK High Court, as well as on internal and regulatory investigations. She has also provided testimony as an expert witness. She is listed in Who’s Who Legal (WWL) Arbitration: Future Leaders – Expert Witnesses. Ms. McHugh was "highly recommend[ed]" by WWL and was described as a "very impressive" expert with "extensive experience in valuation of financial products and business assets, and in the quantification of damages in arbitration proceedings".
Ms. McHugh has extensive experience in estimating alleged damages in matters involving an alleged breach of a contract or investment treaty. She also has considerable experience in the valuation of financial products, including various derivatives, and in the valuation of business assets, including those in emerging markets. She has consulted on a number of merger-related disputes, including those involving SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies). In regulatory investigations, she has consulted on matters involving retail sales of distressed sovereign debt, retail sales of equity-linked structured notes, and the alleged manipulation of benchmark rates. Ms. McHugh has also consulted on numerous disputes between brokerage firms and customers concerning investments in equities, derivatives, fixed income, and structured finance securities. She has evaluated risk characteristics of the investments, concentration, and damages, among other issues. In securities class action lawsuits, she has analyzed issues of class certification, materiality, and damages.
Ms. McHugh has presented at industry conferences and law firms on various topics, including estimating the economic impact of an alleged misrepresentation. She is co-author of “Floating-Rate Mortgage Securities” in The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities (Frank J. Fabozzi, ed., 2016) and co-author of “Causation” in The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review (Barton Legum, ed., 2018). Ms. McHugh holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BA, magna cum laude, in economics and French from Amherst College, where she was awarded three departmental prizes in economics. She is a CFA® charterholder and has also completed coursework in finance and mathematical finance at New York University.
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NERA Insights Webinar in Partnership with the Paris Arbitration Week 2021 | Quantum L... | 21 September 2021 | |||
7th P.R.I.M.E. Finance Annual Conference | 22 January 2018 | |||
Dublin International Arbitration Day 2017 | 10 November 2017 | |||
NERA’s Seventh Annual Financial Litigation, Disputes, and Enforcement Seminar | 18 October 2017 | |||
Sixth Annual London White Collar Crime Institute | 09 October 2017 | |||
Sixth Annual Financial Litigation, Disputes, and Enforcement Seminar | 05 October 2016 | |||
Fourth Annual Financial Litigation, Disputes, and Enforcement Seminar | 15 October 2014 | |||
Getting Personal with Securities Litigation in 2014 | 07 April 2014 | |||
The Best of NERA 2013 | 23 July 2013 | |||
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Eight NERA Experts Recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2022 | 12 December 2021 | Press Release | ||
Ten NERA Experts Recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2021 | 14 December 2020 | Press Release | ||
Ten NERA Experts Included in Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2020 | 17 December 2019 | Press Release | ||
NERA Economist Provides Expert Analysis and Testimony in United States of America vs.... | 02 December 2019 | Press Release | ||
Eight NERA Experts Included In Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2019 | 04 December 2018 | Press Release | ||
FCA hands out fines totalling just £6.3m in its first half | 28 December 2016 | Media Coverage | ||
NERA Authors Contribute to The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities, 7th Edition | 18 October 2016 | Press Release | ||
NERA Economic Consulting Announces Senior-Level Promotions | 13 October 2016 | Press Release | ||
CoCo Concerns Hang Over IMF Meetings | 10 October 2016 | Media Coverage | ||
Trends in Regulatory Enforcement in UK Financial Markets 2015/16 Year-End Report | 21 July 2016 | Press Release | ||