Keith Waehrer, PhD

Partner

PhD, Economics, Rutgers University; MA, Economics, Rutgers University; BA, Economics, Trinity College

Keith Waehrer specializes in mergers, monopolization claims, price-fixing liability issues, and damages calculations. He has extensive experience in antitrust investigations involving mergers and anticompetitive practices and has drafted expert reports and testified at deposition. Dr. Waehrer has expertise across a wide range of industries, especially financial services, financial exchanges, agricultural inputs, industrial, chemical, and medical manufacturing, e-commerce, and publishing. Dr. Waehrer is an expert in the analysis of competitive effects in auction markets. He has spoken on this and other topics at numerous venues around the world. Dr. Waehrer has also published widely and is a referee for more than a dozen economics and business journals.

Prior to joining Bates White, Dr. Waehrer was a Research Economist with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, where he provided economic analysis in connection with numerous merger investigations and civil and criminal antitrust matters. Dr. Waehrer served as an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, focusing on measurements of living standards and construction and interpretation of various price indexes. He also worked for Economist Insight, where he developed models to analyze the West Coast oil and electric power markets; and for Bonneville Power Administration, where his analyses supported long-term contract negotiations and a major rate case. His academic career includes teaching posts at the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Brigham Young University, and Rutgers University.