Keith Waehrer, PhD

Managing Director

Dr. Waehrer has testified at deposition and trial on mergers, monopolization claims, and calculations of reasonable royalties. He is an expert in analyzing competitive effects in auction markets and the impact of overlapping minority shareholdings on competition and has published several highly regarded papers on these subjects.

Keith Waehrer has testified at deposition and trial on mergers, monopolization claims, and calculations of reasonable royalties. Dr. Waehrer has worked on some of the highest-profile US antitrust litigation and corporate mergers in recent years, including United States v. ASSA ABLOY, State of New York et al. v. T-Mobile-Sprint, FTC v. Qualcomm, United States v. AT&T-Time Warner, and United States of America et al. v. American Express Co. et al., and the E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. and Dow Chemical Company, United Technologies Corp. and Rockwell Collins, and Comcast and Time Warner Cable (abandoned) mergers. Having published several highly regarded papers on the subjects, Dr. Waehrer is expert in analyzing competitive effects in auction markets and the impact of overlapping minority shareholdings on competition.

As a visiting partner at ESMT Competition Analysis (now known as E.CA Economics) in Berlin, Germany, Dr. Waehrer worked on significant matters before the European Commission and national competition authorities in Europe. His international experience also includes a major merger matter before the South African competition authorities. He has worked in a wide range of industries, including consumer products, telecommunications, aerospace, music licensing, Internet services, pharmaceuticals, financial services, e-commerce, agricultural inputs, industrial parts, and chemicals.

Dr. Waehrer was named to Global Competition Review’s International Who’s Who of Competition Economists in 2012 and since 2018.

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