Kevin Pflum is an economic and testifying expert specializing in healthcare and life sciences, helping clients tackle mergers, monopolization, and regulatory challenges.
Kevin Pflum has more than 15 years helping clients address complex antitrust challenges in mergers, monopolization, and regulatory matters—particularly in healthcare and life sciences. He has worked on merger cases that involve state and federal government agency oversight and has been retained as an expert for both plaintiffs and defendants, on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, the Rhode Island Attorney General, and various private firms. Kevin has performed economic analyses in a variety of other industries as well, including cable TV, building materials, software, and airlines.
Combining deep expertise in industrial organization and competition economics with a clear understanding of how markets behave, he brings analytical rigor and strategic insight to his analyses. Whether developing quantitative models or distilling complex economics into compelling narratives for courts and decision-makers, Kevin provides precise and credible insights for high-stakes legal and regulatory cases.
Kevin’s background as a professor at the University of Alabama gives him the ability to break down complex concepts for diverse audiences. The experience of teaching economic principles to students with varied professional and personal perspectives honed the communication skills he uses as an expert testifier. Beyond client work, Kevin’s academic research has been featured in leading journals like AEJ: Policy, RAND Journal of Economics, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.
Education
PhD, Economics, The Ohio State University
MA, Economics, New York University
BS, Mathematics, University of Victoria
Practice areas
Expert spotlightKevin Pflum has been retained as the expert on two hospital mergers—on opposite sides. For one, he worked on behalf of the merging parties; for the other, he worked on behalf of the state’s attorney general, who opposed the merger. Read about how that work was both similar and different.
