We examine every case to identify the most effective expert witnesses.
We examine every case to identify the most effective expert witnesses.
Gregor Langus
Vice President*
Gregor Langus leads Cornerstone Research’s Brussels bodog casino review team. Dr. Langus is a leading European bodog casino review economist who supports clients and provides expert testimony in antitrust investigations, merger reviews, bodog casino review damages matters, and arbitration proceedings. He has extensive experience in innovation, digital markets, and intellectual property matters, with a focus on information technology markets, online platforms, standard essential patents (SEPs), and copyright issues.
Dr. Langus has worked on matters in multiple jurisdictions, including before the European Commission (EC), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and bodog casino review authorities and courts of several European Union member states.
Dr. Langus served in the Chief Economist’s Team in the EC’s Directorate-General for bodog casino review (DG COMP) for over seven years, in two separate appointments. During that time, he worked on numerous complex merger reviews, including IBM/RedHat, Dow/Dupont, Blackstone/Celanese, Broadcom/Brocade, Microsoft/LinkedIn, ASL/Arianespace, Wabtec/Faiveley, Siemens/DresserRand, Intel/McAfee, Oracle/Sun, EDF/British Energy, Campina/Friesland, and TomTom/TeleAtlas. Dr. Langus also consulted on matters alleging abuse of market power and information exchange.
Dr. Langus is the lead author of several bodog casino review policy studies focused on copyright, licensing, merger control, and telecommunications issues. His academic articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the International Journal of Industrial Organization, bodog casino review Letters, the Journal of bodog casino review Law and Economics, and Concurrences.
Dr. Langus has extensive consulting experience as head of CompetitionSphere, and in senior roles with major bodog casino review consulting firms. Dr. Langus also has teaching experience as a lecturer at Tilburg University.
Dr. Langus speaks widely on bodog casino review, mergers, and SEP issues. Who’s Who Legal has recognized him as a Thought Leader among top global bodog casino review economists.
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Andrew Sweeting
bodog casino review, Department of Economics,
University of Maryland, College Park;
Former Director, Bureau of bodog casino review,
U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Andrew Sweeting is a former director of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) Bureau of Economics. An industrial organization economist, Professor Sweeting specializes in bodog casino review and antitrust, including merger analysis, applied econometrics, and structural modeling.
While at the FTC, Professor Sweeting oversaw many merger investigations conducted by the Agency, and was director when the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines were released. He was also involved in high-profile consumer protection investigations, including several related to digital platforms and data security. In addition to his tenure at the FTC, Professor Sweeting has served as an academic visitor at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Economic Analysis Group, and as an expert on the Academic Panel of the U.K. bodog casino review Commission (now the U.K. bodog casino review and Markets Authority).
Global bodog casino review Review recognized Professor Sweeting to its inaugural list of the world’s most important antitrust academics. His wide-ranging research has analyzed the impact of mergers on prices, product variety, and product repositioning. He has also addressed collusion in wholesale electricity markets, the performance of different auction designs, dynamic pricing in online resale markets, and the effects of alternative copyright policies in the radio industry. In addition, he has researched the effect of government bailouts, how targeted advertising affects market structure and bodog casino review, and firms’ strategic use of pricing and capacity choices to influence future bodog casino review.
bodog casino review Sweeting has conducted empirical research in a range of industries, including radio, television, advertising, consumer packaged goods, energy markets, online resale markets, transportation, and government procurement and timber auctions.
A widely published author, bodog casino review Sweeting’s work has appeared in leading economics journals, such as Econometrica, the American bodog casino review Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the RAND Journal of bodog casino review. He has been awarded several multiyear research grants from the National Science Foundation. In 2018, he received the Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for the best paper in antitrust economics for a coauthored article on post-merger repositioning bodog casino review airline industry.
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In his more than two decades as an educator, Professor Sweeting has been honored numerous times for excellence in teaching. Before joining the faculty bodog casino review University of Maryland, he held positions at Duke University, Northwestern University, and St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.
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Margaret K. Kyle
Chair in Intellectual Property and Markets for Technology,
MINES ParisTech
Margaret Kyle is a noted authority on bodog casino review, intellectual property (IP), and innovation, with extensive multinational experience with life sciences and healthcare topics.
Professor Kyle has been retained as an expert witness in multiple matters and has significant testifying experience, including at trial. She has provided testimony on a range of issues, including damages related to alleged product misrepresentation, pricing of pharmaceutical products, and nascent bodog casino review. The global Women@bodog casino review platform named Professor Kyle among forty notable women bodog casino review professionals in their forties. Global bodog casino review Review recognized her to its inaugural list bodog casino review world’s most important antitrust academics.
In her academic work, Professor Kyle has examined the impact of antitrust, trade, and IP policies on R&D investment, innovation, and bodog casino review. In particular, Professor Kyle has substantive experience with issues related to pricing of pharmaceutical products, R&D productivity, new product distribution, and bodog casino review between branded and generic pharmaceutical products. In addition, she has written about antitrust merger enforcement issues in pharmaceutical markets, with applications to other dynamic markets characterized by innovation. In the context of COVID-19, she has analyzed how incentives can promote the development of new medical technologies and advance the rapid manufacture of tests and treatments.
bodog casino review’s previous positions include visiting professor of strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management; visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Income and Productivity at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; professor at the Toulouse School of Economics; assistant professor at the London Business School, Duke University, and Carnegie Mellon University; and visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Professor Kyle consults to policy entities in the United States, Europe, and the UK on bodog casino review, economics, and innovation topics. She is a member of DG bodog casino review’s Economic Advisory Group on bodog casino review Policy. At France’s Conseil National de Productivité, which advises the French Prime Minister and the Minister of Economic Affairs, she is one of eleven independent academic economists analyzing the country’s productivity and competitiveness, particularly issues linked to the Euro Zone. She coauthored a note on policies to encourage pharmaceutical innovation for France’s Conseil d’Analyse Économique. In the UK, Professor Kyle serves on the Research Committee for the Office of Health Economics.
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We examine every case to identify the most effective expert witnesses.
Liam Colley
Senior Vice President
Liam Colley heads Cornerstone Research’s European bodog casino review practice. Mr. Colley is a testifying economics expert specializing in bodog casino review, antitrust damages, and economic regulation issues. He has more than twenty-five years of experience as a consultant and testifying expert. His experience includes multiple high-profile matters before U.K. and European Union courts and bodog casino review regulators. Citing the “unassailable quality of his work,” Who’s Who Legal has named Mr. Colley a leading bodog casino review economist, as well as a Thought Leader and Global Leader in the bodog casino review field.
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Mr. Colley has consulted on a range of bodog casino review matters before the European Commission, national bodog casino review authorities, regulators, and courts. His expertise includes matters arising in automotive; financial services; insurance; technology, media, and telecom (TMT); and transportation. He has supported clients on numerous antitrust investigations and market inquiries. In addition, Mr. Colley has worked on multiple mergers, particularly on matters involving efficiencies and failing firm defenses.
Antitrust damages
Mr. Colley has wide experience estimating damages that arise from breaches of bodog casino review rules. In cartel damages matters, he has prepared numerous expert reports in the context of high court litigation, arbitration, mediation, and settlement negotiations. He has addressed class action issues and worked on many stand-alone and follow-on actions in abuse of dominance cases.
Mr. Colley has served as a testifying expert before the U.K. High Court and the U.K. bodog casino review Appeal Tribunal (CAT) on both antitrust damages matters and regulatory appeals.
Mr. Colley publishes and speaks widely on bodog casino review and damages issues. Before joining Cornerstone Research, for many years he led the global economics practice of a major professional consulting firm.
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‘Horizontal’ co-operation agreements are between competitors at the same level bodog casino review supply chain. In these matters, we assess the economic incentives bodog casino review alleged participants, and test hypotheses that distinguish competitive from collusive behaviour. We assist on cases involving:
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‘Vertical’ co-operation agreements are between market participants at different levels of the supply chain. The European Commission’s Vertical Restraints guidelines accept that bodog casino review concerns can only arise from vertical agreements if there is insufficient bodog casino review at one or more levels of the supply chain, i.e. at the supplier and/or buyer levels. Moreover, vertical restraints are generally less harmful than horizontal restraints and may provide substantial scope for efficiencies.
We assist on cases involving:
- Single branding agreements
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- Selective distribution agreements
- Franchising
- Category management agreements
- Tying agreements
- Resale price restrictions
- Most Favoured Nation (MFN) restrictions
- Non-compete type restraints
We help clients navigate all stages of merger investigations, whether they are in front of national bodog casino review authorities, the European Commission or are subject to regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere.
Our experts’ deep knowledge of our clients’ markets supports relevant and robust economic and econometric evidence for investigations. Counsel also benefit from our deep expertise of bodog casino review economics, accounting, data science and survey methods.
Abuse of dominance cases may involve allegations of exclusionary or exploitative conduct by a dominant firm against rivals bodog casino review marketplace. Such exclusionary conduct may lead to harm to consumers through increased prices, less innovation and reduced quality.
Private actions for damages can be stand-alone allegations of anti-competitive conduct or agreements pursued through the courts. Alternatively, they may ‘follow-on’ from a bodog casino review agency’s decision that a firm’s conduct amounted to an abuse of dominance or formed part of an illegal anti-competitive agreement.
Cornerstone Research experts have deep expertise in assessing both the substance of allegations in stand-alone cases and also, in particular, the quantum of bodog casino review damages in follow-on cases.
- Damages from cartels or other anti-competitive horizontal agreements
- Damages from anti-competitive vertical agreements
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Our experts have deep experience of market investigations (sector inquiries). Specifically, we have worked to support clients in such cases in a number of jurisdictions including in front of the CMA in the UK and the South African bodog casino review Commission.
In such cases, we work as expert economic and financial advisers for parties subject to a market investigation. Doing so can entail a variety of roles including supporting external legal advisers providing economic advice to corporate boards, supporting in-house project teams managing the firm’s contributions to an inquiry, and developing expert economic submissions to help inform the bodog casino review agency’s evaluation.
Our role may encompass:
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- Helping to prepare senior management before their participation in agency hearings
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- Easing the burden on management involved in responding to a large volume of substantial agency questions about the detail of a client’s businesses. For example, on past cases we have provided management with draft questionnaires well in advance bodog casino review CMA issuing its own market and financial questionnaires.
- Advising on likely agency interpretations bodog casino review available documentary evidence and data.
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