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Marc Van Audenrode
Managing Principal*
Education
Summary
Dr. Van Audenrode is an expert in data analysis and econometrics, labor economics, antitrust and competition policy, and public economics. He has consulted to clients - including law firms and government agencies - in Canada, the US, and Europe. Dr. Van Audenrode’s work includes developing a methodology to value desktop software; he also developed expertise valuing goods as varied as restaurant franchises, executive stock options, or smartphone features. His recent work in public economics includes evaluating the economic rent from hydroelectricity to the Canadian economy and the value of logging rights on the ancestral territory of a Canadian First Nation. In the area of labor economics, his work has included filing an expert report assessing fair compensation for Quebec provincial judges and Quebec prosecutors and advising Quebec’s commission on pay equity. Dr. Van Audenrode has filed expert reports in courts in the US, Canada, Belgium, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, and has testified in Canada and the US. He recently filed a report with the Amsterdam Court of Appeal in support of the settlement reached between Ageas and claimant organizations in the Fortis case, the largest settlement ever reached through the Dutch Collective Settlement Act (WCAM). Dr. Van Audenrode’s scientific research and articles have been published in numerous peer-reviewed academic journals and trade journals. He is a coauthor of the book The Mutual Fund Industry: Competition and Investor Welfare, and is a frequent presenter at industry and academic conferences.
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Selected Cases & Publications
‘Fraud on the Market’ and the Economics of Securities Litigation Claims in Europe
Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. Shareholder Litigation
Following years of negotiation, Steinhoff International Holdings N.V., received approval from courts in the Netherlands and South Africa for a €1.7 billion global settlement with shareholders and creditors.
Remember Stacker? Another Look at “Killer” Acquisitions in the Digital Economy
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In re American Funds Fee Litigation
Analysis Group provided economic analysis and expert testimony in the American Funds mutual funds fee litigation – the first securities case to go to trial in the mutual fund industry in more than 20 years, and one of the largest securities matters ever to go to trial.
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Predicting the Essentiality of Standard Essential Patents
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Fiscal state aid: are US companies being unfairly targeted?
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Allegations of Insider Trading Against Major Shareholder of French Biotech Corporation
An Analysis Group team, led by Managing Principal Marc Van Audenrode, was retained by lawyers from Linklaters LLP to help their client - the major shareholder of a listed French biotech corporation - fight allegations of insider trading brought by the French financial markets regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).
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Calculating Damages in Price-Fixing Cases in the United States, Canada, and the European Union
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Over-Declaration of Standard Essential Patents and Determinants of Essentiality
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A Comparison of Damage Theories in Price-Fixing Cases in the United States, Canada, and the European Union
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Can social media data lead to earlier detection of drug-related adverse events
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Antitrust Private Damages Actions in the United States, Canada and the European Union
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Tribunal de commerce francophone de Bruxelles - Patrinvest v. SA Ageas
In September 2012, Patripart NV, a former shareholder of former Belgian bank Fortis, and its parent company, Patrinvest SCA, brought an action for damages against Fortis successor Ageas SA/NV before the Brussels Commercial Court based on alleged incomplete and/or misleading information in Fortis's prospectus relating to its September 2007 capital increase.
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Fairview Donut Inc., et al. v. The TDL Group, Tim Hortons
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Apple v. Samsung Trial (May 2014)
In a patent infringement case widely covered in major media outlets, Analysis Group and academic affiliates Judith Chevalier of the Yale School of Management, Tülin Erdem of the NYU Stern School of Business, George Foster of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and David Reibstein of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School were retained by Samsung Electronics and its counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, to provide consulting and expert witness services.
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An Analysis of Investment and Drawdown Strategies over a Long Retirement Horizon
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Toyota Industries and Cascade Corporation Transaction
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Is backdating executive stock options always costly to shareholders?
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Multiple Antitrust Litigations on Behalf of Large Semiconductor Manufacturer
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Private Sector Investment and Employment Impacts of Reassigning Spectrum to Mobile Broadband in the United States
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