The Vega team and experts provide analyses of the complete range of economic issues arising in antitrust litigation including market definition and market power, market structure, pricing, profitability, and damages. In addition to litigation support, we have experience providing educational presentations to the Court addressing the anticompetitive effects of monopolization.
Vega’s vast expert network includes numerous academic leaders who are well versed in complex economic issues and specialize in a broad array of industries ranging from health care to agriculture. Our experienced testifying experts use qualitative and quantitative methods to provide theoretical and empirical economic analysis.
Below is a list of example engagements for our Antitrust & Competition practice:
Benchmark Rate Antitrust Litigation: Our team provided consulting support in a benchmark rate antitrust class action. Investors in this matter claimed that the allegedly rigged benchmark rates diminished their returns on trades, pension plans, and savings accounts. Vega was retained to assist with development of case strategy and overall case management including providing market and technical analytics. The Vega team also provided comprehensive discovery support.
Bond Price Rigging Litigation: Vega was engaged to develop economic analyses and provide technical writing in a matter alleging collusion among bond traders. Our team utilized public data to evaluate the impact of the alleged conspiracy on prices in the bond market.
BCBS Antitrust Case: A Vega expert was retained to provide an educational presentation to the Alabama Court regarding the key economic issues in the In Re Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ala. MDL No. 2406). This class action was brought by providers and subscribers to enjoin an alleged ongoing conspiracy to allocate health insurance markets. The expert’s presentation included data visualizations that addressed key issues of the case, including an overview of the Alabama health insurance market, defendants’ market share, and financial statistics.
Production in Antitrust Case: Vega was designated as the lead consulting firm for receiving and verifying data produced by a large group of insurance companies. Our team assisted counsel by bridging the gap between the data produced in discovery and the expert analysis, ensuring the data was sufficient for the expert analysis anticipated in subsequent phases of the litigation.
Analysis of Pricing Pressure and Price Fixing in Generic Drug Market: Vega is retained by a group of major hedge funds as opt-out plaintiffs in several securities class actions to support Professor Lou Rossiter in analyzing issues related to pricing pressures and price fixing for certain drugs in the generic drug market.
Assistant Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Antitrust & Competition
- Energy & Environmental Economics
Professor of Finance at R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland
- Securities & Finance
- Antitrust & Competition
- Valuation
- Data Science & Statistics
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Economics and Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia
- Antitrust & Competition
- Healthcare & Health Economics
- Insurance & Risk
Economic Consultant and Expert Witness
- Antitrust & Competition
- Technology, Internet & Media
Assistant Professor of Economics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
- Antitrust & Competition
- Insurance & Risk
Clinical Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics at Fordham University
- Securities & Finance
- Valuation
- Antitrust & Competition
- FinTech
- Corporate Finance
Professor in the Department of Economics at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
- Agriculture
- Antitrust & Competition
- Valuation
- Energy & Environmental Economics
Patrick T. Harker Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Antitrust & Competition
University Chaired Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the Economics Laboratory at the Ohio State University
- Antitrust & Competition
Associate Professor of Finance at the Farmer School of Business, Miami University
- Securities & Finance
- Data Science & Statistics
- Financial Institutions
- Antitrust & Competition
- Valuation
Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, Pennsylvania State University
- Agriculture
- Antitrust & Competition
- Energy & Environmental Economics
Eric L. Kohler Professor Emeritus at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Securities & Finance
- Accounting
- Valuation
- Antitrust & Competition
- Real Estate
Assistant Professor at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics
- Antitrust & Competition
Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Chile
- Antitrust & Competition
- Consumer Finance
Principal and Senior Economist at ECONOMIC ASSOCIATES
- Antitrust & Competition
- Healthcare & Health Economics
- Valuation
Research Professor, Program in Public Policy, William & Mary
- Healthcare & Health Economics
- Antitrust & Competition
Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Antitrust & Competition
- Technology, Internet & Media
Managing Director at Mingde Economic Research Inc. and an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University
- Antitrust & Competition
- Valuation
- Data Science & Statistics
Assistant Professor in the Yale University School of Management
- Antitrust & Competition
- Healthcare & Health Economics
- Marketing
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the University of Idaho
- Agriculture
- Antitrust & Competition
Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University
- Agriculture
- Antitrust & Competition