Tackling Transfer Pricing Litigation for Multinationals Operating in Europe

On 30 August 2007, China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) was passed on its third reading before the Standing Committee of the People’s National Congress (NPC). The AML has finally been adopted after almost 14 years of planning, drafting, and debate. It will become effective on 1 August 2008.

Two recent reports, one by NERA Economic Consulting, and the other by Cornerstone Research, indicate that the number of securities class actions filed by plaintiffs in the federal courts grew by approximately 9-10% in 2013 as compared with 2012.

Despite the widespread attention given to "options backdating" by investors, regulators, the legal profession, and the news media, the issue has not generated the spate of shareholder class action litigation that some observers anticipated.

Dr. John D. Montgomery presents analysis of the estimated costs and offsetting savings of a proposal to create a program to provide counsel to every indigent respondent in immigration removal proceedings.

On July 22, 2014, NERA Economic Consulting published a study of consumer class action settlements between 2010 and 2013.

The MSRB named Simon Wu as its Chief Economist. Mr. Wu will assume his new role starting on February 6, 2017.

Exchange-traded fund (ETF) strategies continue to increase in scope, involving active management and more sophisticated financial instruments.

At the request of the US Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, a NERA team led by Senior Vice President Dr. W. David Montgomery and Senior Consultant Dr. Sugandha Tuladhar has conducted an objective and independent study to assess the potential macroeconomic impacts on the US economy of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's (CAFC) 4 January 2011 ruling in Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. ("Uniloc") marked an important change in patent infringement litigation.

The compliance date for new rules included in the SEC's money market fund reforms is fast approaching.

NERA Economic Consulting was commissioned by NTCA – The Rural Association and the Rural Wireless Association, Inc. to explore the arguments for and against using smaller geographic area licenses for the Forward Auction of the 600 MHz Broadcast Incentive Auction.

In a recent verdict, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California held Microsoft liable for infringement of two patents held by Alcatel-Lucent (Lucent). It ordered Microsoft to pay just over $1.5 billion in reasonable royalty damages, the largest patent damage award in history. The case, Lucent Technologies et al. v. Gateway Inc. et al., focused on two patents relating to MP3 audio technology and the ability of computers running Microsoft’s Windows Media Player (WMP)

A study by NERA Economic Consulting shows that consumer class action settlements in the US have increased steadily over the past four years.

Last week, NERA Economic Consulting released its annual report, "Recent Trends in Securities Class Action Litigation: 2013 Full-Year Review."

2016 was an unprecedented year in securities class actions filings

According to a report published by NERA Economic Consulting, 234 federal securities class action complaints were filed in 2015.

In this article, we explain why: some patterns of option grants that may appear extremely unlikely are actually very likely; the calculations presented in the March 18, 2006 Wall Street Journal article can be misleading; and factors that were disregarded in published probability calculations may be especially important when estimating the likelihood of grants for specific companies.

Last year, plaintiffs filed an unprecedented 412 new federal class-action securities cases, meaning that the "likelihood of securities litigation against U.S. exchange-listed companies was greater in 2017...

Pump manufacturer Nash Engineering Company appears to have recently become the latest casualty of asbestos litigation. On October 19, 2021, Nash Engineering filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy...