Aaron Yeater
Education
M.B.A., strategy and international finance, Yale School of Management; B.A., College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University
Summary of Experience
Mr. Yeater specializes in applying financial and economic analyses to complex business litigation and regulatory matters involving antitrust concerns, intellectual property claims, and other commercial disputes. Mr. Yeater serves as an expert witness and consults to clients in non-testifying roles. In more than 20 years as an economic consultant, he has led large, high-profile engagements supporting multiple experts in a variety of industries, including digital and traditional media, sports and entertainment, retail consumer goods, high-tech consumer products, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agriculture, education, and financial services.
Mr. Yeater applies his expertise to analyze competition and substitution patterns, define relevant markets, and evaluate potential competitive effects and counterfactual outcomes in merger and competition investigations and antitrust litigation. He has served as a testifying economist concerning the analysis of merger efficiencies and procompetitive effects of conduct. Mr. Yeater has also evaluated competition, pricing, output and efficiencies, and procompetitive benefits in connection with merger and behavioral investigations in the US, Australia, Korea, the UK, and the EU. He has supported merging parties and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a variety of merger investigations. In other litigation matters, Mr. Yeater has applied his expertise in financial and economic concepts to the analysis of damages, and has provided assistance throughout all phases of pretrial and trial practice.
Mr. Yeater serves as a vice chair to the American Bar Association (ABA) Antitrust Law Section’s Podcasting Committee, producing and hosting episodes of the committee’s Our Curious Amalgam podcast. Previously, he was a vice chair of the Food and Agriculture Committee. He publishes and presents regularly on topics relevant to his expertise, including the economic analysis of competition, the calculation of damages in antitrust and other cases, and class certification.
Provided Expert Testimony
- Federal Trade Commission, et al. v. The Kroger Company, et al.
- LovePop, Inc. vs. Paper Pop Cards, Inc.
Additional Cases
- adidas America, Inc. et al. v. Skechers USA, Inc.
- Analysis Group Team’s Pro Bono Analysis of Towing Fees and Their Economic Impact on the Poor
- Dexon Computer Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. and CDW Corporation
- dotStrategy, Co., Individually and On Behalf of All Other Similarly Situated, Plaintiff, v. Facebook, Inc., Defendant
- Federal Trade Commission v. Intuit Inc.
- Fox Broadcasting Company et al v. DISH Network LLC et al
- FTC v. Wilhelm Wilhelmsen, et al.
- Gallus, et al. v. Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
- In re: EpiPen ERISA Litigation
- In re: TFT-LCD (Flat Panel) Antitrust Litigation
- In the Matter of Certain Casual Footwear and Packaging Thereof
- In the Matter of: Certain Footwear Products, investigation number 337-TA-936
- Jones v. Harris Associates
- Lightbourne v. CBS Interactive, et al.
- Meta’s Response to EU Order Re: Data Transfers
- Multiple Antitrust Litigations on Behalf of Large Semiconductor Manufacturer
- Mutual Fund Excessive Fee Case
- US v. DaVita Inc. and Kent Thiry
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The Cambridge Handbook of Marketing and the Law
Cambridge University Press, 2023
2023Befurt R, Bucklin R, Cai A, Gersen J, Golder P, Kirk Fair R, O’Laughlin L, Schreck M, Simon P, Steckel J, Tucker C, Yeater A
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Lost Profits Damages: Principles, Methods, and Applications (second edition)
Valuation Products and Services, LLC, 2022
2022Kinrich J, Harry E
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The Ability to Achieve Lost Sales as a Consideration in Damages Analyses
Lost Profits Damages: Principles, Methods, and Applications (second edition)
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The Challenges of Using Return on Capital as an Indicator of Monopoly Power
White paper, December 9, 2020
2020 -
European Union – Two-Sided Markets, Platforms and Network Effects
Global Competition Review, E-Commerce Competition Enforcement Guide, January 2019
2019 -
The Ability to Achieve Lost Sales as a Consideration in Damages Analyses under Different Legal Frameworks
Landslide, ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, November/December 2018
2018 -
The Ability to Achieve Lost Sales as a Consideration in Damages Analyses
Lost Profits Damages: Principles, Methods, and Applications
2017 -
Donning And Doffing Damages: Tyson Takeaways For Antitrust
Law360, May 12, 2016
2016 -
Use and Abuse: The Myth of Divided Antitrust Economics
Concurrences, March 2016
2016 -
The Fallacy Of Inferring Collusion From Countercyclical Prices
Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association, Economic Committee Newsletter, Volume 14, Number 1
2015 -
Monday-Morning Quarterbacking and Antitrust Damages
Law360, January 10, 2014
2014Shannon K, Yeater A
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December 16, 2024
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