Considerations for the valuation of energy assets in arbitration
Simon Ede, Laura Sochat and Richard Acklam co-authored an article in the ninth edition of The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review titled “Considerations for...
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Laura Sochat is an associate principal in CRA’s Energy Practice. She is an economist with over 10 years of experience.
Ms. Sochat provides consultancy services to clients in the energy industry in the context of international arbitration, strategy, and regulatory advisory projects. She has acted as project manager on a range of investment treaty and commercial cases in many geographies and has been retained as co-expert on a commercial case.
Ms. Sochat has extensive experience in the development of quantitative and qualitative arguments through in-depth analytics of commercial data and review of factual evidence in the context of international arbitration. For clients operating through the energy value chain, Laura provides advice on asset valuation, project and company financial modeling, and economic and statistical analysis. She also often advises clients on regulatory issues, in the context of strategy development, regulatory reviews, and stakeholder engagement processes and impact assessments.
In addition to her experience in the energy industry, Ms. Sochat also has experience in the competition, telecoms, and financial sectors.
Prior to joining CRA, Laura worked at another consultancy, where she was part of both the competition and quantitative finance practices. Prior to that, Laura was a Teaching Fellow for the Economics department at the University of Warwick. Laura speaks English (fluent) and French (native).
Ms. Sochat holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Essex and an MSc in Economics and International Financial Economics from the University of Warwick.