Dr. Debra J. Aron is a vice president in the Competition Practice. Debra applies her expertise in economic and policy matters, including competition and antitrust analysis, intellectual property, class certification, and damages analysis, in both litigation and regulatory disputes.
She has provided expert testimony for over 20 years in a variety of high-stakes federal, state, regulatory, and arbitration cases relating to unfair competition; market definition; price fixing; consumer fraud; class certification; patent and copyright infringement; theft of trade secrets; and contract disputes. She has calculated damages under principles of lost profits, reasonable royalties, and unjust enrichment. She has also conducted competition analyses in several high-profile mergers and macroeconomic analyses of pricing changes and investment in emerging technologies.
Dr. Aron’s work spans many industries, including real estate, agriculture, energy, platform markets, consumer beverages, big-box retailing, consumer products, chemicals, and manufactured products. She has specialized expertise in communications, media, and technology, where her work includes antitrust, intellectual property (patents, trade secrets, and copyrights), and class actions brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).