Compass Lexecon Further Enhances Leading Academic Expertise
Compass Lexecon, a subsidiary of FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN), has significantly expanded its academic expertise by adding 20 new academic affiliates over the past six months. These additions strengthen the firm's capabilities across multiple practice areas, including Antitrust & Competition, Healthcare, Securities & Financial Markets, and Valuation.
The new affiliates bring specialized expertise in emerging fields such as AI, machine learning, advanced econometrics, and big data analysis. Notable additions include Dr. Matthew Gentzkow, recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, and Dr. John List from the University of Chicago. The healthcare practice gained three experts in health economics and data analytics, while the Securities & Financial Markets practice welcomed specialists in corporate finance, venture capital, and financial markets.
Many of these affiliates have previous experience with key government agencies including the FTC, FCC, and SEC, enhancing the firm's regulatory expertise and expert testimony capabilities.
Compass Lexecon, una filiale di FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN), ha notevolmente ampliato la sua expertise accademica aggiungendo 20 nuovi affiliati accademici negli ultimi sei mesi. Queste aggiunte rafforzano le capacità dell'azienda in diverse aree pratiche, tra cui Antitrust & Competizione, Sanità, Titoli & Mercati Finanziari, e Valutazione.
I nuovi affiliati portano competenze specializzate in settori emergenti come IA, apprendimento automatico, econometria avanzata e analisi dei big data. Tra le aggiunte di rilievo ci sono il Dr. Matthew Gentzkow, vincitore della Medaglia John Bates Clark, e il Dr. John List dell'Università di Chicago. La pratica sanitaria ha acquisito tre esperti in economia sanitaria e analisi dei dati, mentre la pratica di Titoli & Mercati Finanziari ha accolto specialisti in finanza aziendale, capitale di rischio e mercati finanziari.
Molti di questi affiliati hanno esperienza pregressa con agenzie governative chiave, tra cui FTC, FCC e SEC, migliorando l'expertise normativa dell'azienda e le capacità di testimonianza esperta.
Compass Lexecon, una subsidiaria de FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN), ha ampliado significativamente su experiencia académica al agregar 20 nuevos afiliados académicos en los últimos seis meses. Estas incorporaciones fortalecen las capacidades de la firma en múltiples áreas de práctica, incluyendo Antimonopolio & Competencia, Salud, Valores & Mercados Financieros, y Valoración.
Los nuevos afiliados aportan experiencia especializada en campos emergentes como IA, aprendizaje automático, econometría avanzada y análisis de big data. Entre las adiciones notables se encuentran el Dr. Matthew Gentzkow, receptor de la Medalla John Bates Clark, y el Dr. John List de la Universidad de Chicago. La práctica de salud ha ganado tres expertos en economía de la salud y análisis de datos, mientras que la práctica de Valores & Mercados Financieros ha dado la bienvenida a especialistas en finanzas corporativas, capital de riesgo y mercados financieros.
Muchos de estos afiliados tienen experiencia previa con agencias gubernamentales clave, incluyendo la FTC, la FCC y la SEC, lo que mejora la experiencia regulatoria de la firma y sus capacidades de testimonio experto.
Compass Lexecon는 FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN)의 자회사로, 지난 6개월 동안 20명의 새로운 학술 제휴자를 추가하여 학문적 전문성을 크게 확장했습니다. 이러한 추가는 독점 금지 및 경쟁, 의료, 증권 및 금융 시장, 그리고 평가를 포함한 여러 실무 분야에서 회사의 역량을 강화합니다.
새로운 제휴자들은 인공지능, 기계 학습, 고급 계량 경제학, 그리고 빅 데이터 분석과 같은 신흥 분야에서 전문 지식을 제공합니다. 주목할 만한 추가 인물로는 John Bates Clark 메달 수상자인 Dr. Matthew Gentzkow와 시카고 대학교의 Dr. John List가 있습니다. 의료 분야는 건강 경제학 및 데이터 분석 전문가 3명을 영입했으며, 증권 및 금융 시장 분야는 기업 금융, 벤처 캐피탈, 금융 시장의 전문가들을 환영했습니다.
이 제휴자들 중 많은 이들이 FTC, FCC, SEC와 같은 주요 정부 기관에서의 경험을 가지고 있어, 회사의 규제 전문성과 전문가 증언 능력을 향상시키고 있습니다.
Compass Lexecon, une filiale de FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN), a considérablement élargi son expertise académique en ajoutant 20 nouveaux affiliés académiques au cours des six derniers mois. Ces ajouts renforcent les capacités de l'entreprise dans plusieurs domaines de pratique, y compris Antitrust & Concurrence, Santé, Valeurs Mobilières & Marchés Financiers, et Évaluation.
Les nouveaux affiliés apportent une expertise spécialisée dans des domaines émergents tels que IA, apprentissage automatique, économétrie avancée et analyse de big data. Parmi les ajouts notables figurent le Dr Matthew Gentzkow, lauréat de la Médaille John Bates Clark, et le Dr John List de l'Université de Chicago. La pratique de la santé a gagné trois experts en économie de la santé et en analyse de données, tandis que la pratique des Valeurs Mobilières & Marchés Financiers a accueilli des spécialistes en finance d'entreprise, capital-risque et marchés financiers.
Beaucoup de ces affiliés ont une expérience antérieure avec des agences gouvernementales clés, y compris la FTC, la FCC et la SEC, ce qui améliore l'expertise réglementaire de l'entreprise et ses capacités de témoignage d'expert.
Compass Lexecon, eine Tochtergesellschaft von FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN), hat ihre akademische Expertise erheblich erweitert, indem sie in den letzten sechs Monaten 20 neue akademische Partner hinzugefügt hat. Diese Ergänzungen stärken die Fähigkeiten der Firma in mehreren Praxisbereichen, einschließlich Antitrust & Wettbewerb, Gesundheitswesen, Wertpapiere & Finanzmärkte sowie Bewertung.
Die neuen Partner bringen spezialisierte Expertise in aufstrebenden Bereichen wie Künstliche Intelligenz, maschinelles Lernen, fortgeschrittene Ökonometrie und Big Data Analyse mit. Zu den bemerkenswerten Neuzugängen gehören Dr. Matthew Gentzkow, Preisträger der John Bates Clark Medal, und Dr. John List von der Universität Chicago. Die Gesundheitsabteilung hat drei Experten für Gesundheitsökonomie und Datenanalyse gewonnen, während die Abteilung für Wertpapiere & Finanzmärkte Spezialisten für Unternehmensfinanzierung, Risikokapital und Finanzmärkte begrüßt hat.
Viele dieser Partner haben zuvor Erfahrung mit wichtigen Regierungsbehörden wie der FTC, FCC und SEC gesammelt, was die regulatorische Expertise der Firma und ihre Fähigkeit zur Expertenaussage verbessert.
- Significant expansion of expert testimony capabilities with 20 high-profile academic affiliates
- Enhanced capabilities in emerging technologies (AI, machine learning, big data)
- Strengthened regulatory expertise with affiliates having FTC, FCC, and SEC experience
- Expanded service offerings across multiple high-value practice areas
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Twenty Academic Affiliates Have Joined Compass Lexecon in the Past Six Months
Affiliates Bring Prior Experience at Government Agencies Including the FTC, FCC and SEC
Deep Expertise in a Wide Range of Areas, Including Merger Policy, Healthcare, AI, Finance, Venture Capital, Technology, Network Industries and Telecommunications
WASHINGTON, April 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN) today announced that in the past six months 20 academic affiliates have joined its Compass Lexecon subsidiary, expanding client offerings in the Antitrust & Competition, Healthcare, Securities & Financial Markets, and Valuation practice areas, among others.
The new affiliates in Compass Lexecon’s Antitrust & Competition practice deepen the firm’s expertise in a wide range of areas, including competition and merger policy, telecommunications, entertainment and network industries, technology and innovation. These affiliates bring expertise in new and innovative economic fields, including field experiments, advanced econometric techniques, machine learning and AI, and the analysis of big data.
In the Compass Lexecon Healthcare and Life Sciences practice, three new affiliates bring expertise in health economics, industrial organization, cost-benefit analysis and data analytics. They have used cutting-edge tools, including AI, machine learning, and advanced statistical models, to analyze healthcare markets.
In the Securities & Financial Markets and Valuation practices, the new affiliates bring enhanced expertise in corporate finance, financial markets and products, venture capital, innovation financing and corporate governance. They further strengthen Compass Lexecon in the areas of bankruptcy and financial distress litigation and derivatives and structured finance.
“Compass Lexecon is a consulting firm built on a foundation of world-class academics,” said Compass Lexecon Chairman Daniel R. Fischel. “We are leaning into that tradition by adding talented academics who offer leading economic expertise and expert testimony capabilities and complement our deep bench of expert economists and professional staff.”
Antitrust & Competition
- Dr. Matthew Gentzkow is the Landau Professor in Technology and the Economy at Stanford University. He studies applied microeconomics with a focus on the economics of media and technology industries and these industries’ impacts on society and democracy. He received the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal, given by the American Economic Association to the American economist under the age of 40 who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Editor of American Economic Review: Insights. Dr. Gentzkow has presented his research to U.S. regulatory agencies, including the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). He is also an experienced expert witness.
- Dr. John List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, and the Founder and Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. Dr. List is a pioneer in the use of field experiments in economics and a recognized expert in industrial organization, labor economics and non-profit entities, among other areas. Dr. List is also an experienced expert witness and has provided expert testimony in the United States, Australia and Switzerland. He is the recipient of five honorary doctorate degrees.
- Dr. Ginger Jin is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and previously served as Director of the Bureau of Economics at the FTC. She has deep expertise in analyzing mergers and acquisitions against the backdrop of emerging technologies and the use of big data in antitrust and consumer protection matters.
- Dr. Ali Hortaçsu is the William M. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Hortaçsu’s research is focused on using novel econometric techniques to analyze the efficiency of markets and he has developed pioneering econometric methods that can be applied to industrial organization, financial markets, energy markets, the internet and a variety of market clearing mechanisms including auctions, matching and consumer search. He is the author of the book, Structural Econometric Methods in Industrial Organization and Quantitative Marketing.
- Dr. William Rogerson is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Chair of Market Economics at Northwestern University and former chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission. He is a leading antitrust and telecommunications expert whose research focuses on industrial organization, regulation, cost accounting and defense procurement. Dr. Rogerson has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the FTC, Institute for Defense Analysis, Logistics Management Institute, Office of the Secretary of Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation), RAND Corporation and the DOJ.
- Dr. Luís Cabral is the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics and International Business and Chair of the Economics Department at the NYU Stern School of Business. His research focuses on the dynamics of firm competition from both the antitrust and strategy perspectives, and includes mergers, big tech, innovation and corporate reputation. Dr. Cabral has served as an expert witness and has advised numerous companies and government institutions, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Bank of Portugal and the European Commission. In addition, he is the author of Introduction to Industrial Organization, which has been translated into multiple languages and adopted by hundreds of universities globally.
- Dr. Daniel Spulber is the Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and Professor of Law (Courtesy) at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He is a leading expert in antitrust and merger policy, platforms and two-sided markets, intellectual property, technology and innovation, and industrial organization. Dr. Spulber has provided expert testimony in state and federal courts as well as before the FTC, the International Trade Commission, the Copyright Royalty Board, the FCC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), the Postal Rate Commission and state regulatory agencies.
- Dr. Peter Reiss is the MBA Class of 1963 Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is a nationally renowned applied microeconomist with extensive expertise in industrial organization, econometrics and data science. His work has analyzed, among other topics, entry and competition in industries including financial markets, airlines, autos, retail and electricity. Dr. Reiss is an accomplished expert witness.
- Dr. Matthew Backus is a professor at the Haas School of Business and in the Economics Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses on antitrust, microeconomics and industrial organization. His research combines economic theory and empirical methods focused on antitrust, auctions, bargaining, communication and productivity. He is also involved in the development of tools that are used to distinguish empirically between theoretical models of behavior.
- Dr. Mehmet Ekmekci is a professor of economics at Boston College. His research focuses on industrial organization, platform economics and artificial intelligence. He has served as an expert in various matters involving auction design and competitive procurements in the satellite broadband industry and has consulted on mergers and government investigations in a wide variety of industries, including semiconductors, computer hardware, telecommunications and internet platforms.
- Dr. Aurelien Portuese is Research Professor and the Founding Director of the Competition & Innovation Lab at the George Washington University. His research focuses on antitrust law and economics in the United States and the EU. Dr. Portuese is also a consultant for the World Bank and is a member of the intergovernmental group of experts on Competition Law and Policy of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (“UNCTAD”).
- Dr. Kei Kawai is a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Economics and an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a distinguished economist specializing in industrial organization and political economy. His research spans collusion detection in auction strategies, signaling behavior in credit markets and inferences from voting patterns.
Health Economics
- Dr. Matthew Grennan is an Associate Professor of Economics at Emory University. He specializes in using empirical and theoretical industrial organization models to analyze competition and innovation in healthcare and life-science markets. His research has examined how complex incentives and imperfect information affect how health technologies are developed, adopted and priced, and his work has been used in the development of business strategies and in policy debates regarding price transparency, relationships between physicians and industry, regulation of new products and antitrust. Dr. Grennan has served as an expert witness in numerous high-profile healthcare matters.
- Dr. Jonathan Kolstad is a professor at the Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he holds the Henry J. Kaiser Chair, and in the Economics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kolstad’s expertise lies at the intersection of health economics, industrial organization and public economics. Much of his research focuses on applying tools from behavioral economics, machine learning and AI to better understand behavior and market outcomes and to design policy and technology interventions to improve welfare.
- Dr. Craig Garthwaite is the Herman R. Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services, a Professor of Strategy, and the Director of the Program on Healthcare at Kellogg School of Management. Dr. Garthwaite’s research focus includes pricing and innovation in the biopharmaceutical sector, the effect of changes in market size on investments in new product development, the evolution of precision medicine, the effect of expanded patent protection on pricing, and the relationship between health insurance expansions and drug prices. He has served as an expert witness in matters involving antitrust, the False Claims Act, transfer pricing, the impact of government policies and damages.
Securities, Financial Markets & Valuation
- Dr. Ilya Strebulaev is the David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also is the founder and director of the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative. Dr. Strebulaev is an expert in corporate finance, venture and angel capital, innovation financing, corporate innovation, private equity and financial decision-making. He also has extensive experience as an expert witness and has provided written and verbal testimony on behalf of a wide range of clients facing issues related to venture capital, valuation analysis, M&A disputes and other finance-related matters.
- Dr. Edward Morrison is a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is an expert in corporate valuation, corporate restructuring, corporate and consumer bankruptcy, empirical analysis of contracts, and mortgage markets. Dr. Morrison has testified in high-profile cases involving large corporate bankruptcies and has served as an advisor and consultant to hedge funds, law firms and corporations.
- Dr. Audra Boone is a Professor of Finance and holder of the C.R. Williams Professorship in Financial Services in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University. Prior to this position, she was a Senior Financial Economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), working in the Office of Financial Intermediaries of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis. She also served as a visiting scholar in the SEC’s Office of Litigation Economics working on issues related to allegations of securities fraud. She is also gaining experience and is in increasing demand as an expert witness in major litigation.
- Dr. Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos is a Professor of Finance and Hillenbrand Family Faculty Fellow at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. Dr. Fos is a leading corporate finance scholar and serves as a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow for the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Dr. Fos’s research has focused on multiple topics in corporate finance, including information transmission in financial markets, activist investors, corporate governance and insider trading. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship.
- Dr. Richard Lindsey specializes in quantitative analysis focused on risk and strategy development, including the uses and limitations of AI and machine learning technology for corporate management and board governance. He has also done extensive work in the areas of portfolio construction, risk management and the trading of securities. Dr. Lindsey previously served as Director of Market Regulation and Chief Economist at the SEC. He has also been a Professor of Finance at Yale University and is currently an adjunct professor of finance at NYU.
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