Bates White: Economic Consulting

Elena Bisagni specializes in econometrics and economic and statistical analysis. She has extensive experience supporting top-tier testifying experts in complex litigations involving damages assessment and alleged anticompetitive conduct.

Prior to joining Bates White, Dr. Bisagni was a Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. She also worked as a Consultant at Fannie Mae and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Selected Experience

• Supporting the testifying expert to a coalition of opt-out plaintiffs in a consumer electronic component price-fixing matter. Performing economic and statistical analysis to quantify damages and support litigation and settlement requests.
• Supported testifying experts on behalf of AMD in the landmark microprocessor antitrust case AMD v. Intel. Led econometric analysis to assess impact of Intel’s alleged illegal exclusionary conduct on AMD’s market shares and revenues.
• Supported multiple testifying experts on behalf of direct and indirect plaintiffs in In re Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Antitrust Litigation. Developed damages model used to compute overcharges and damages, and worked closely with damages experts to write rebuttal expert reports and prepare for deposition.
• Supported the causation and damages expert on behalf of the unsecured creditors committee of the Enron estate in Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. v. Citigroup Inc. Built sophisticated econometric models to predict how and when, in the absence of the alleged accounting fraud, the credit rating agencies would likely have adjusted Enron’s credit rating and assessed damages attributable to defendants’ aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary duty by company insiders.
• Supported lead consulting expert working on behalf of a large coalition of opt-out and class plaintiffs involved in In re Vitamins Antitrust Litigation. Built analytical tools and performed econometric analysis to assess damages resulting from price-fixing of bulk vitamins.
• Provided expert testimony in a mediation on behalf of a nationwide class of purchasers of air cargo shipping services.
• Conducted statistical and economic analysis on behalf of a major financial institution with multiple prime and subprime mortgage business units. Developed statistical methods to detect pricing disparities between protected and unprotected classes and to assess the relationship between mortgage pricing and credit risk.

Education

PhD, Economics, University of California, San Diego

MA, Economics, George Washington University

BA, Business and Economics, University of Parma, Italy