NERA Economic Consulting is pleased to announce that Dr. Lauren Stiroh has been named Chair of the firm's leading Global Antitrust and Competition Practice, effective 1 July 2016.

Dr. Stiroh, a recognized expert in the economics of antitrust, intellectual property, and commercial damages, takes over for Dr. Ramsey Shehadeh, who has finished a successful term as Chair of the practice and will continue in his role as Senior Vice President at the firm.

“NERA is recognized as having one of the world’s leading competition economics consulting practices, and under Dr. Stiroh’s leadership, the practice will continue to meet the highest standards of analytic rigor and objectivity,” said NERA President Dr. Lawrence Wu. “I look forward to working with Lauren in her new role and to further expanding NERA’s Antitrust and Competition Practice.”

Dr. Stiroh has conducted research, prepared expert reports, and testified in court on a variety of issues arising from antitrust allegations, such as monopolization, exclusionary conduct, tying, vertical restrictions, price fixing, predatory pricing, price discrimination, and abuse of standard setting. She has extensive experience analyzing the competitive effects of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, and consulting on matters related to assessing impact and damages in class action litigation. Dr. Stiroh has been retained by numerous large US and multinational companies and has performed or critiqued damage calculations in dozens of industrial settings.

Dr. Stiroh is recognized annually in the Global Arbitration Review’s The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists and holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University.

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 over half a century, NERA's economists have been creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world's 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.

NERA's 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 world's largest economic consultancies. With its main office in New York City, NERA serves clients from more than 25 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

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