Intellectual Property and Antitrust Experts Join NERA Economic Consulting

pan>)--NERA Economic Consulting, a leading global provider of economic advice
and analysis in business, legal, and regulatory matters, is pleased to
announce the addition of Dr. Nadia Soboleva and Dr. Guy Ben-Ishai as
Senior Consultants in the firms Intellectual Property and Antitrust and
Competition Practices. Dr. Soboleva and Dr. Ben-Ishai are based in
NERAs San Francisco office.
“Dr. Soboleva and Dr. Ben-Ishai are welcome additions to NERAs presence
on the West Coast, expanding our antitrust and intellectual property
team in the San Francisco office, led by Senior Vice Presidents Dr. Alan
Cox and Dr. Lawrence Wu and Senior Consultant Dr. John Scalf”
Dr. Soboleva is an economist with deep expertise in industrial
organization and international economics. She has specialized in
applying economic analysis to client cases involving joint ventures,
allegations of price fixing, monopolization, collusion, trade secrets,
patents, and copyright issues. She also has extensive experience in
advising companies on business strategy based on statistical analyses of
large-scale and complex data sets. She has worked with domestic and
international businesses on cases in the payment cards, automobile,
pharmaceutical, consumer products, medical device, and information
technology industries. She joins NERA from Cornerstone Research. Before
that, Dr. Soboleva was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the
University of Toronto and a Consultant at the World Bank. Dr. Soboleva
received her PhD, MPhil, and MA in Economics from Yale University, and
an MA in Development Economics from Williams College.
Dr. Ben-Ishai is an expert in industrial organization and applied
microeconomics, with a particular focus in antitrust and intellectual
property. He has conducted economic analysis on matters involving tying,
bundled discounts, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing, refusals
to deal, predatory pricing, monopolization, mergers, joint ventures,
price fixing, market allocation, and patent misuse. Dr. Ben-Ishai also
has extensive expertise estimating complex damages, conducting
econometric and statistical analysis, and assessing the appropriateness
of class certification. Dr. Ben-Ishai received a PhD in Economics from
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a BA in Economics from UCLA.
Prior to joining NERA, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of
Toulouse and held positions at LECG, Compass Lexecon, and the Israel
Antitrust Authority.
Dr. Soboleva and Dr. Ben-Ishai are welcome additions to NERAs presence
on the West Coast, expanding our antitrust and intellectual property
team in the San Francisco office, led by Senior Vice Presidents Dr. Alan
Cox and Dr. Lawrence Wu and Senior Consultant Dr. John Scalf, said NERA
President Dr. Andrew Carron. Nadia and Guy bring broad experience and
deep expertise that will be tremendous assets to NERAs clients.
About NERA
NERA Economic Consulting (www.nera.com)
is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and
quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. For
half a century, NERAs economists have been creating strategies,
studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for
government authorities and the worlds leading law firms and
corporations. We bring academic rigor, objectivity, and real world
industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition,
regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.
NERAs clients value our ability to apply and communicate
state-of-the-art approaches clearly and convincingly, our commitment to
deliver unbiased findings, and our reputation for quality and
independence. Our clients rely on the integrity and skills of our
unparalleled team of economists and other experts backed by the
resources and reliability of one of the worlds largest economic
consultancies. With its main office in New York City, NERA serves
clients from more than 20 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia
Pacific.

Information Source: Business Wire