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NERA

Litigation Support Guide 2025

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NERA

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Provided by NERA
Litigation Support

Since 1961, NERA has provided unparalleled guidance on the most important market, legal, and regulatory questions of the day. Our work has shaped industries and policy around the world. Our field-leading experts and experience allow us to provide rigorous analysis, reliable expert testimony, and data-powered policy recommendations for the world’s leading law firms and corporations as well as regulators and governments. Our experience, integrity, and economic ingenuity mean our clients can depend on us in the face of their biggest economic and financial challenges.

Antitrust and Competition

NERA’s economic experts provide testimony in antitrust litigation and present expert submissions to regulatory agencies globally. Our team of antitrust experts has been at the forefront of analysis across the entire range of economic issues arising in antitrust and competition matters. We utilize advanced economic and econometric models to establish the quantum of damages related to alleged anticompetitive behaviour in litigation and international arbitration.

Bankruptcy and Financial Distress

NERA has one of the largest in-house teams in economic consulting, integrating expertise in economics, finance, accounting, and valuation with specific industry knowledge to offer top-tier litigation support in bankruptcy and financial distress situations. Our experts provide economic analysis for securities disputes, corporate governance, valuation of companies, portfolios including assets and derivatives, and professional compensation.

Consumer Protection

With extensive experience in high-stakes law enforcement investigations, private arbitration, and litigation, NERA’s consumer protection experts have a deep understanding of consumer markets and their surrounding regulations. This knowledge helps clients navigate and comply with complex consumer protection laws.

Labor and Employment

NERA delivers a wealth of insights and independent analyses concerning traditional claims and contemporary issues in labour and employment litigation. Our experts advise in various areas including wage and hour litigation, providing detailed economic analysis and testimony; discrimination and disparate impact litigation; litigation risk management consulting; wrongful termination and injury litigation; and complex litigation, addressing the intersection of labour issues with consumer protection and deceptive practices and illuminating the economic implications of business practices.

Product Liability and Mass Torts

NERA’s product liability and mass torts expertise ranges from projects valuing liabilities in multibillion-dollar bankruptcies to assessing potential exposure before products have been marketed.We track changes in the mass torts litigation environment nationally and at the state level, incorporating this information into forecasting claims and liabilities. Our experts include adjustments related to tort reform when predicting impacts on filing rates and settlement amounts.

Securities and Finance

For securities and finance, NERA economists support clients through all stages of litigation, including discovery, fact analysis, and developing robust economic and financial models. Our economists bring to bear a thorough understanding of financial markets and the regulatory institutions that govern them.They frequently act as consultants and expert witnesses in securities fraud investigations and address financial questions central to ERISA litigation.

Survey Research and Consumer Behaviour

The survey research and consumer behaviour team provides extensive consulting and testimony on survey design, implementation, analysis, and critiques, particularly for litigation. We focus on labour and employment issues, helping litigate matters related to wages, overtime, and employee experiences.

Transfer Pricing

Our global transfer pricing practice offers a full range of transfer pricing services, independent advice, and valuation support by world-class economists who operate in major global locations and who provide global solutions for multinational clients.NERA’s expertise is backed by a long-standing reputation and is crucial in resolving tax disputes through credible, market-focused economic theories. Our experience spans from tax audit defence to international arbitration.

White Collar

NERA offers financial investigative and forensic accounting support for class actions, civil litigation, regulatory enforcement proceedings, and white-collar crime, ensuring comprehensive analysis and actionable results.

Communications and Internet

As recognized leaders in the industry, NERA’s communications and internet experts engage at all litigation stages and international arbitrations, providing necessary support and insights for clients in domestic and international disputes across the rapidly converging digital communications and content marketplace.

Environment and Natural Resources

When dealing with environmental liabilities in litigation, NERA assists companies by delivering objective analyses, expert testimony, and various support services. We have particular expertise assisting clients with environmental strategy, litigation, and regulatory compliance and also conduct and support policy analysis, natural resource valuation, and environmental and human health damage assessments.

Financial Institutions and Banking

NERA delivers trusted economic and financial consulting and expert testimony for financial institutions. Our experts help clients navigate bank failures, litigation, regulatory reform, and consumer protection issues like false advertising, excessive fees, and breach of fiduciary duty cases.

Healthcare

NERA’s experts routinely analyse a broad range of healthcare topics, including healthcare antitrust matters; contracting and reimbursement disputes; analyses of quality, effectiveness, and outcomes; healthcare policy and regulation, such as certificate of need and certificate of public advantage matters; and healthcare class action matters.

Insurance

NERA experts have worked with insurers, reinsurers, regulators, and policymakers on insurance product and industry-related matters. Our substantial experience means clients are provided knowledgeable advice regarding insurance markets and competition and the valuation of insurance and reinsurance contracts.

Oil and Gas

NERA provides litigation support to global clients in the energy sector as they navigate critical regulatory, litigation, and business challenges across the oil and gas sector. Our experience with the economics of global crude oil and refined products spans upstream, midstream, and downstream markets, and our work in deregulating natural gas markets in North America during the 1990s continues to serve as the foundation for the regulatory regime used and modelled around the world today.

Power, Utilities, and Renewables

NERA’s economists have long advised on the development and reform of regulatory frameworks and competitive markets for global power and utility services. Our experts assist clients with complex matters of price regulation, competition, and market design. Our work increasingly focuses on the challenges these industries face to mitigate and adapt to climate change, replace fossil fuels with low carbon and renewable energy sources, electrify transport and heating demand, and accommodate changes in how customers consume utility services due to evolving technologies.

Retail

In retail, NERA’s specialists provide economic and statistical analyses for trademark and patent disputes, mergers, transfer pricing and tax litigation, and various legal challenges. We have represented virtually every major global brand and retailer.

Ranked Offices

Provided by NERA

USA - Head office
  • New York
    1166 Avenue of the Americas, 28th Floor , New York, New York, USA, NY 10036
  • Tel: +1 212 345 3000

NERA rankings

Litigation Support Guide 2025
Global-wide
Economic Analysts
1 Department
Department
Economic Analysts
3
Economic Analysts
3
Band 3
Other Lawyers
Lawyers
Christian Dippon
Christian Dippon
Unranked
Julie Carey
Julie Carey
Unranked
Lawrence Wu
Lawrence Wu
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