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Economics & Finance

Strengthen your legal strategy with credible economic evidence and expert testimony that withstands scrutiny.

Equipping your team with reliable economic and financial analysis.

When economic questions are complex and the legal stakes are high, you need clear, defensible insights from a trusted source. Our economics and finance experts deliver grounded opinions for a wide array of litigation and compliance issues, including securities and antitrust investigations, financial regulatory enforcement matters, and white-collar investigations.

Rely on IMS to gain strategic answers and data-driven evidence on liability and damages, backed by rigorous research designs and methods.

Our Economics & Financial Expertise

  • Antitrust in Financial Markets

    IMS advisors examine whether explicit or implicit anticompetitive agreements exist, which can reflect monopolization, and the impact on financial market participants. Through econometric modeling, we calculate damages arising from such behavior.

  • Securities Litigation

    We measure the price impact of specific events, model price inflation, and assess market efficiency. These expert analyses support class certification and mediation in 10b-5 claims, offering reliable insights for complex securities disputes.

  • ERISA & Investment Management

    Our financial experts evaluate investment performance through risk-adjusted returns, fee analysis, and benchmarking against relevant indices and peer groups.

  • Market Manipulation, Spoofing & High-Frequency Trading

    We implement and assess quantitative frameworks for modeling strategic order placement and detecting behaviors consistent with market manipulation.

  • Real Estate Finance & Economics

    IMS’s real estate and mortgage finance experts address issues in residential and commercial real estate markets, primary and secondary mortgage markets, brokerage markets, and mass property valuation matters.

  • Financial & White-Collar Investigations

    Our economics and finance advisors support investigations and legal proceedings by providing statistical and financial analysis for matters involving market manipulation, fraud, and other white-collar crimes.

  • Econometrics

    Our economists help establish liability and quantify damages using robust economic models, such as regression analysis and related predictive modeling techniques, that capture the relationships central to complex litigation.

  • Economic Damages in Catastrophic Personal Injury Matters

    IMS economists calculate damages in catastrophic personal injury cases to ensure that long‑term financial losses are measured accurately and supported by accepted economic principles.

    For example, when life care plans are used to outline future medical needs in personal injury cases, our economists convert those projected costs into present-value dollar amounts. By adjusting for inflation and investment returns, they provide reliable damages estimates that reflect the precise cost of lifetime care.

  • Expert Witness Testimony

    In addition to pre-litigation consulting and damages quantification, our economics consulting professionals can provide expert testimony throughout the full lifecycle of a matter, including mediation, depositions, and trials.

Meet Our Economics & Finance Experts

FAQs

Early engagement of an economic damages expert, whether consulting or testifying, is optimal. Economic experts help shape case strategy, and engaging a qualified consulting expert before formal discovery or testimony begins allows counsel to tailor document requests to the key economic variables at issue.

In complex matters such as securities litigation, antitrust damages, or ERISA disputes, the damages framework often informs liability strategy. Early involvement also increases the likelihood that an expert can identify weaknesses in opposing theories.

IMS economics experts effectively integrate with trial teams from case inception through verdict.

Loss causation analysis under Rule 10b-5 requires demonstrating that the alleged misrepresentation caused the plaintiff's economic loss. A commonly accepted methodology is an event study, which uses statistical modeling to isolate the price impact of a disclosure or corrective event against expected returns based on market benchmarks. To withstand Daubert scrutiny, this analysis must apply sound econometric principles, including regression model that incorporates relevant variables, uses an appropriate control period, and yields statistically significant results.

Consulting experts are under attorney-client privilege and assist with testing theories, evaluating opposing methodologies, and refining case strategy. A testifying expert, by contrast, is not bound by privilege and forms and discloses formal opinions subject to expert report requirements and deposition. Litigators often engage a consulting economist first to identify flaws in the opposing damages model, then retain a separate testifying expert once opinions are finalized.

Antitrust class certification adjudicates issues relating to impact and classwide damages. An economic expert assesses whether an alleged anticompetitive agreement caused injury to the class as a whole. Damages models must align with the theory of liability and be tied directly to the specific anticompetitive conduct at issue. Daubert challenges may target model specification, the choice of benchmark periods, and the expert's reliability in controlling for procompetitive pricing factors.

White-collar investigations and market manipulation cases, including spoofing, insider trading, and securities fraud, require expertise in quantitative finance, regulatory enforcement norms, and courtroom testimony. Qualified experts typically have graduate-level training in economics, finance, or statistics, along with a peer-reviewed publication in a relevant area. An equally important consideration is whether the expert can explain order-book dynamics or statistical anomaly detection to federal judges and juries who did not go to business school. IMS vets and works with economics and finance experts who combine rigorous analytical credentials with demonstrated courtroom credibility.

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Trust our economics consulting team to answer complex questions and inform strategic decisions.