Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, INDUSTRY NEWS: Bates White adds Whinston to antitrust and competition practice, (Oct 24, 2013)
Organizations Mentioned:Northwestern University | U.S. Department of Justice | University of Chicago | University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Michael Whinston has joined Bates White Economic Consulting as a partner in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice, according to a recent announcement. A management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whinston is a leading academic expert in the fields of antitrust economics and regulation, industrial organization, and microeconomics.
Prior to joining the faculty at MIT in 2013, Whinston taught at Northwestern University and Harvard University. He has held visiting positions at Oxford University, University of Chicago, and Yale University and has served as a visiting economist in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
He has served as a testifying and consulting expert in numerous competition matters that involve merger and conduct investigations before the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and Canadian Competition Bureau. On behalf of the Canadian Competition Bureau, Whinston testified during the agency’s investigation of the Superior/ICG Propane merger. He gave deposition and rebuttal testimony in the DRAM antitrust litigation and served as an independent expert for U.S. District Court Judge Letts in a CD price-fixing matter.
Whinston is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (B.S., Economics, and MBA, Finance) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., Economics).
Bates White is an economic consulting firm offering services to law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies. It specializes in advanced economic, financial, and econometric analysis, handling complex matters that require sophisticated problem solving and deep empirical analysis.
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