Communications, Media, and Internet

Antitrust and Business Litigation

Our telecommunications, media, and postal economists have an unmatched reputation for highly defensible analysis, based on rigorous economics and quantitative methods, and grounded in a thorough understanding of the industry, market forces, and the facts of the case. We work with our clients at all stages of competition and litigation matters, ranging from pre-merger analyses and pre-complaint counseling through discovery, direct and rebuttal testimonies, cross-examination, and oral testimony. Our work and industry expertise has earned us an outstanding reputation for compelling quantitative analysis and persuasive testimony and skill under cross-examination. Some of our recent examples of our competition and litigation work include:

• Anticompetitive conduct
• Bankruptcy
• Breach of contract
• Business interruption
• Business valuation
• Coaxial network upgrades
• Comparative advertising performance claims
• Consumer class action
• Competitive harm
• Cross-ownership
• Early termination fee class actions
• Economic damages
• False advertising
• MNO-MVNO price squeeze
• Price fixing in the mobile sector
• Reputation damages
• Structure (pole, ducts) sharing
• Video retransmission consent
• Wholesale market failures

Our litigation clients include domestic and international law firms, private telecommunications and media companies, and domestic and international regulatory agencies. We present our findings before courts, arbitrators, and regulators.