Eric R. Emch, PhD
With decades of antitrust expertise, Eric Emch delivers consulting and testifying services in high-stakes antitrust cases spanning telecom, technology, and consumer industries.
Eric Emch has more than two decades of experience in economic analysis of competition policy issues, including the competitive effects of horizontal and vertical mergers, single-firm conduct, market definition and market power, and collusion. His recent work has included analysis of competition issues relating to digital platforms, analysis of competition in telecom markets, evaluation of royalties for licensing music for streaming, and analysis of the competitive impact of mergers in a wide variety of industries. He is currently Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Bar Association.
Eric joined Bates White from the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), where he served as Staff Economist and, later, Assistant Chief of the Competition Policy Section. As Assistant Chief, Eric led teams of economists in economic analyses of merger, monopolization, and collusion matters in a wide variety of industries. While on leave from DOJ from 2007 to 2008, Eric led the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Regional Competition Center in Seoul, Korea, where he designed, organized, and conducted competition policy workshops for staffers of national competition authorities across Asia.
Eric has published in journals such as the Journal of Industrial Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Review of Network Economics, and Antitrust Law Journal on a number of antitrust-related topics, including aftermarket economics, market definition, and antitrust theories of harm. As an adjunct professor, he has taught Industrial Organization at Georgetown University and econometrics in Johns Hopkins University’s Master’s of Applied Economics Program. He has been named to Lexology’s (formerly Who’s Who Legal) list of top Competition Economists since 2014 and has been recognized as a Competition Thought Leader by that publication since 2021.
Education
PhD, Economics, University of California, Berkeley
AB, Economics and History, Brown University
Practice areas
Engagement SpotlightEric co-led the team supporting the expert in Epic Games v. Google, Epic’s antitrust litigation related to Google’s app store practices. A jury returned a verdict in favor of Epic on all counts and all claims.
