Bates White: Economic Consulting

Ceren Canal Aruoba has expertise in data analysis and management, discovery support, and antitrust and consumer fraud issues. She performs analysis of class certification, liability, and damages on litigation matters in various industries. Ms. Canal Aruoba has worked extensively on projects involving the jewelry, pulp and paper, natural gas, and pharmaceuticals industries.

Prior to joining Bates White, Ms. Canal Aruoba worked as a Senior Research Analyst at TargetRx, a consulting/market research firm for pharmaceutical clients.

Selected Experience

• Supporting multiple experts in In re Pharmaceutical Industry Average Wholesale Price Litigation for both liability and damages related to complaints filed by state Medicaid authorities regarding allegedly fraudulent pharmaceutical pricing.
• Supporting testifying expert in an analysis of alleged anticompetitive behavior in the fluid milk industry.
• Supported testifying expert for large coalition of direct-action plaintiffs in a complex horizontal conspiracy in In re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation.
• Supported consulting expert on econometric analysis on behalf of jewelry retailers in Sullivan v. DB Investments, Inc. to assess the degree of pass-through throughout the supply chain to allocate settlement among plaintiff subclasses.
• Supported testifying expert on merits on behalf of a trading company in the NYMEX natural gas futures market manipulation case, In re: Natural Gas Litigation.

Education

BA, Economics and BSE, Systems Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania