Antitrust Case Experience

Your varied needs for CHAPIN Associates Ltd. forensic economists include analysis and testifying in a wide range of Antitrust matters. Issues include:
  • market share determination,
  • market definition,
  • economic/financial analytics,
  • industry reviews,
  • predatory pricing marginal costing studies,
  • factual analysis refuting tying allegations,
  • volume discount studies,
  • Robinson-Patman statistical modeling,
  • resale price maintenance.
Representative cases include:
  • Formulae Pricing.   For a basic building materials group of defendant’s in an MDL class action, you asked us to conduct a detailed transaction study to refute formulae pricing, testifying to our findings.
  • Purchase Discrimination.   You required a series of telecom price comparison studies with functionality and substitutability analysis, leading to the refutation of vendor selection discrimination.
  • Resale Price Maintenance.   In a soft drink distributor class action, you had us price tickets and perform a document analysis to support plaintiff’s allegations.
  • Predatory Pricing.   You involved us in behalf of snack food defendants, unit pricing and correlation analysis studies refuting allegations of below marginal cost pricing.
  • Bid Rigging.   In a countywide class action you needed a bid database for dairy products defendants to analyze competing bids and the award processes.
  • Tying.   For an electronic controls company, you required a factual analysis and industry practice study leading to our refutation of the damage claim by opposing economics expert.
  • Price Fixing.   To support our economics expert, you sought a market study and transaction analysis to refute price fixing claims and the opposing expert.
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