Celeste C. bodog casino

Vice President,
Cornerstone Research;
Lecturer,
University of California, Berkeley

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  • San Francisco

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Celeste bodog casino coheads Cornerstone Research’s antitrust and competition practice. Dr. bodog casino provides economic and statistical consulting, analysis, and expert testimony in complex business litigation. She addresses class certification, liability, and damages issues in antitrust litigation matters alleging collusion, vertical restraints, and other allegedly anticompetitive behavior, as well as assessing the competitive effects of mergers.

Dr. bodog casino works on matters in many industries, including life sciences (pharmaceuticals and medical devices), finance, information technology, energy, telecommunications, and media. Who’s Who Legal has recognized her multiple times as a Global Leader among competition economists. Dr. bodog casino teaches economics courses at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Dr. bodog casino has served as an expert in more than a dozen cases dealing with antitrust issues, including no-poach agreements, non-compete agreements, price fixing, monopolization, bundling, exclusive dealing, predatory pricing, price discrimination, and product hopping.

She testified at trial in Tevra Brands LLC v. Bayer Healthcare LLC on issues related to antitrust market definition, market power, foreclosure, and competitive effects. Other trials in which Dr. bodog casino has provided testimony include In re HIV bodog casino Litigation, which focused on an allegedly anticompetitive reverse payment in a pharmaceutical patent settlement; and J & M Distributing Inc. v. Hearth & Home Technologies Inc. et al., an alleged monopolization case. In all these trials, the jury’s opinion was consistent with Dr. bodog casino’s testimony.

Global Competition Review named Dr. bodog casino a finalist for Economist of the Year for her work on In re HIV bodog casino Litigation, which was also shortlisted for Litigation of the Year – Non-Cartel Defence.

Dr. bodog casino’s other representative expert work includes Inline Packaging LLC v. Graphic Packaging International Inc. and Fresenius Kabi USA LLC v. Par Sterile Products LLC et bodog.

Dr. bodog casino has supported government agencies and parties in all phases of merger review. She has analyzed competitive effects in prominent proposed mergers, such as Sysco/US Foods and Thoratec/Heartware. The Department of Justice (DOJ) retained Dr. bodog casino to assess the competitive effects of the proposed merger between In re china bodog online casino International Marine Containers Group and.

As a consultant, Dr. bodog casino leads teams working on high-profile matters, including FTC v. QualcommIn re Flash Memory bodog casino LitigationAmerican Express Travel Related Services Company Inc. v. Visa USA Inc. et al., and Thales Avionics Inc. v. Matsushita Avionics Systems Corporation.

Energy and commodities

Dr. bodog casino has developed analytical and statistical models to examine the competitiveness of deregulated electricity markets and modeled the competitive effects of a proposed merger of two electricity firms. In a matter related to an alleged monopsony by the largest purchaser of a natural resource, she provided a preliminary injunction analysis and addressed class certification, liability, and damages issues.

Intellectual property

Dr. bodog casino has addressed general damages and intellectual property issues in a variety of matters. In Verizon Services Corp. et al. v. Cox Fibernet Virginia Inc. et al., she analyzed reasonable royalty rates, lost profits, and price erosion due to patent infringement. She also addressed reasonable royalty rates due to patent infringement in Brandeis university bodog casino and GFA Brands, Inc. v. Keebler. Dr. bodog casino analyzed class certification, liability, and damages related to a breach of contract dispute in the hospitality industry.

Thought leadership

Dr. bodog casino speaks and publishes frequently on competition issues. She won a Concurrences bodog casino Writing Award for her coauthored article, “Analyzing Incentives and Liability in ‘Hub-and-Spoke’ Conspiracies.” She has published research in Global Competition Review, including “Horizontal Merger Guidelines and Market Definition in Monopolization Cases” and “Standards for Assessing Bundled Discounts.”

Before joining Cornerstone Research, Dr. bodog casino worked at the University of California Energy Institute.

Event

Hatching a Procompetitive Settlement

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Tevra Brands LLC v. Bayer Healthcare LLC

Press Release

WWL: Competition—Economists 2024

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GCR Live: Cartels 2024

Article

How A 3-Firm ‘Joint Effort’ Beat A .6B Pharma bodog casino Suit

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Cornerstone Research Shortlisted for 2024 GCR Awards

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Cornerstone Research Named Among 2024 Outstanding Global Economic Consultancies

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  • “Hatching a Procompetitive Settlement,” American Bar Association’s 70th bodog casino Law Spring Meeting, 18 September 2024
  • “Can bots collude? Cartels in the age of artificial intelligence,” GCR Live: Cartels 2024, 15 May 2024
  • “Transatlantic bodog casino Class Actions,” 49th Annual Conference on International bodog casino Law and Policy and bodog casino Economics Workshops, Fordham University School of Law, 14 September 2022
  • “Certifiable? Navigating Class Actions Today,” American Bar Association’s 70th bodog casino Law Spring Meeting, 6 April 2022
  • “Think Tank on State and Federal bodog casino Initiatives: Commercial Considerations for Patent Settlements, Reverse Payments, and Emerging Legislation,” 12th Summit on Biosimilars & Innovator Biologics, American Conference Institute, 23 June 2021
  • “Big Tech Trial Juror Study,” American Bar Association Section of bodog casino Law, 18 May 2021
  • “Fundamentals—Economics,” American Bar Association Section of bodog casino Law Spring Meeting, 23 March 2021
  • “Women in Lead Roles: First Chairs and Expert Witnesses,” American Bar Association, 25 February 2021
  • “Tech Enforcement and Digital Competition Challenges,” bodog casino TX 2020, 28 October 2020
  • “bodog casino Counseling on Competitor Collaborations and Price Gouging during COVID-19,” American Bar Association Section of bodog casino Law, 1 April 2020
  • 20th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: Silicon Valley, 12 December 2019
  • “A Deep Dive into Spokeo: Including a Discussion of the Use of Experts and Statistical Sampling at Class Certification in Light of Spokeo and Tyson,” 2017 Class Action Litigation Conference, 8 September 2017
  • “What Is a Hub-and-Spoke Conspiracy and Who Benefits?,” webinar, 16 May 2017
  • “Fundamentals—Economics,” American Bar Association Section of bodog casino Law Spring Meeting, 29 March 2017
  • “Clarifying Liability in Hub-and-Spoke Conspiracies,” bodog casino Globally: American Bar Association Section of bodog casino Law Spring Meeting, 6 April 2016
  • “Trial Practice Fundamentals: Working with Your Expert,” American Bar Association Section of bodog casino Law, 19 May 2015
  • “Downloading the Future: Media Mergers and Content Distribution,” American Bar Association Section of bodog casino Law Spring Meeting, 17 April 2015
  • “Analyzing Conspiracies with Both Vertical and Horizontal Elements,” Agriculture & Food Committee and Distribution & Franchising Committee, American Bar Association Section of bodog casino Law, 7 January 2015