CRA was retained by the market leader in a segment of the building materials industry to determine damages due to alleged patent infringement by the second largest player in this multi-supplier market. CRA’s team of expert consultants analyzed commercial success and developed complex lost profits models to address different product segments, multiple distribution channels, and regional supply/demand variations in this highly cyclical, capital-intensive industry. CRA’s expert’s lost profits models included a region-by-region market share/pricing analysis and a plant-by-plant analysis of capacity and incremental costs. CRA’s team also determined a reasonable royalty based on multiple factors, including apportionment of the economic benefits of the asserted patents, comparable licenses, and the Georgia-Pacific factors.
Project finance basics for International Arbitration practitioners
Lenders often depend exclusively on project revenues for repayment, so any operational or regulatory disruption can quickly jeopardize covenant compliance and...