M&A Settlements in the Delaware Court of Chancery

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Featured Experts

Douglas J. Skinner

Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting,
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Douglas Skinner is a leading authority on financial reporting and disclosure, capital markets, corporate finance, and valuation. An experienced expert witness, Professor Skinner has testified on numerous corporate finance–related matters, both in deposition and at trial. He has evaluated loss causation, damages, market efficiency, and price impact.

In his research, Professor Skinner addresses a range of subjects related to corporate finance, financial accounting, and corporate governance, including the capital market effects of corporate disclosures and financial reporting. He has assessed various factors that affect corporate disclosure choices, the role that manager incentives play in financial reporting, and the determinants of firms’ payout policies.

Professor Skinner’s articles have appeared in leading accounting and finance journals, including the Accounting Review, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics. He coedits the Journal of Accounting Research and was previously coeditor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics. He has received several best paper awards, including the Jensen Prize from the Journal of Financial Economics and the BlackRock Prize from the Review of Accounting Studies. His research has also been cited in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times.

Honored multiple times for excellence in teaching, Professor Skinner teaches graduate (M.B.A. and Ph.D.) courses that cover financial accounting, managerial (cost) accounting, financial statement analysis, corporate finance, and empirical methods in accounting research.

Professor Skinner is a professorial fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. Before joining the University of Chicago, he served for over a decade as the KPMG Professor of Accounting at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

Professor Skinner is an independent trustee of and audit committee chair for Harbor Funds, Harbor Funds II, and Harbor ETF Trust, an actively managed mutual fund and exchange traded fund (ETF) complex.

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Erin Trish

Associate Professor,
Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics,
Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Co-Director, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics,
University of Southern California

Erin Trish is an expert in pharmaceutical and healthcare economics. Her research focuses on the intersection of public policy and competition in healthcare and pharmaceutical markets, including Medicare, the No Surprises Act (NSA), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), insurer and hospital market concentration, pharmaceutical pricing, and the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

Professor Trish has served as an expert witness in multiple life sciences and healthcare matters and has both trial and deposition experience. She has provided expert testimony in arbitration and in litigation involving the False Claims Act, price fixing and market allocation, killer acquisitions, and the 340B drug pricing program.

In addition, Professor Trish has testified before the U.S. Congress and in the California State Assembly, and presented her research at numerous federal agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Congressional Budget Office.

In her research focused on the pharmaceutical industry, Professor Trish analyzes market structure, prescription drug expenditures, pharmacy networks, and firms’ financial incentives. She is a leading expert on brand and generic drug markets, PBMs, and the funding and benefit design of Medicare Part D, Medicaid, and commercial prescription drug insurance.

Professor Trish’s healthcare research addresses regulation and policy, market participants, and outcomes. Her expertise includes market concentration and vertical integration, payor-provider bargaining, out-of-network reimbursement for emergency care, commercial insurance, Medicare Advantage, and exchange market functioning.

Professor Trish publishes in leading health policy, health economics, and medical journals. Her work has appeared in the New England Journal of MedicineHealth Affairs, the American Journal of Managed Care, and the Journal of Health Economics, among others. She has won several research awards, notably the Seema S. Sonnad Emerging Leader in Managed Care Research Award, which recognizes early achievements in the field and potential for exceptional long-term contributions.

At USC, Professor Trish teaches executive-level courses in health policy and management at the Marshall School of Business. She also serves as a nonresident fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution.

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Barbara E. Kahn

Patty and Jay H. Baker Professor,
Professor of Marketing,
The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania

Barbara Kahn is an internationally recognized marketing, branding, and retailing expert. Professor Kahn specializes in variety-seeking behavior, brand loyalty and brand management, product assortment and design, price promotions, and consumer and medical patient decision-making, especially in the context of uncertainty or ambiguity.

As an expert witness, Professor Kahn has testified on marketing, branding, and retailing issues arising in antitrust, intellectual property, finance, and securities litigation. She has deposition experience and has provided testimony in federal and state courts.

In her research, Professor Kahn analyzes a range of consumer behavior and marketing strategy issues, with an emphasis on product assortment planning, product perception, customization, and customer relationship management. She examines the psychological impact of product display and variety, as well as how consumers process visual versus verbal information. Professor Kahn studies the influence of emotional reactions and efficacy beliefs on service experiences, including in medical and financial services industries. Her work also explores multichannel retailing environments, applies consumer neuroscience to marketing, and examines the evolving dynamics of healthcare delivery and consumer health behaviors.

Professor Kahn has published dozens of articles in top academic journals. She was associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing, and Marketing Science and has served on the editorial boards of all major marketing journals. Professor Kahn speaks frequently at academic and professional conferences and at leading universities and research laboratories.

Professor Kahn is the author or coauthor of multiple books, including Visual Marketing: A Practical Guide, The Shopping Revolution: How Successful Retailers Win Customers in an Era of Endless Disruption Accelerated by COVID-19, Global Brand Power: Leveraging Branding for Long-Term Growth, Advances in Consumer Research, and Grocery Revolution: The New Focus on the Consumer. Her research has also been featured on CNN, CNBC, Forbes, the Hidden Brain podcast, NPR, the New York Times, Politico, Vox, and the Wall Street Journal.

At the Wharton School, Professor Kahn teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive education courses on visual marketing, strategic brand management, consumer behavior, and statistics. She has been honored multiple times for teaching excellence and received the prestigious David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Undergraduate Division. In addition, she directed Wharton’s Jay H. Baker Retailing Center and spent four years as vice dean of the undergraduate program.

Previously, Professor Kahn served both as dean and Schein Family Professor of Marketing at the Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami. Before that, she was a member of the faculty at UCLA Anderson School of Management.

For over a decade, Professor Kahn has held a secondary appointment in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Perelman School of Medicine. Her visiting scholar appointments include terms at the University of Tokyo, the University of Sydney, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and New York University’s Stern School of Business.

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Jonah Berger

Associate Professor of Marketing,
The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania

Jonah Berger is a renowned expert on word of mouth, influence, consumer behavior, and how products, ideas, and behaviors are shared and disseminated.

Professor Berger analyzes the impact of digital and traditional marketing, as well as social media, on consumer behavior and product demand. He specializes in using sophisticated quantitative tools, such as natural language processing and automated content analysis, to gain behavioral insights from textual data. He has also conducted hundreds of surveys in his academic work and has opined on surveys as an expert witness. In Ciccio et al. v. SmileDirectClub LLC et al., for example, he rebutted a survey and analyzed marketing data to demonstrate the need for individualized inquiry. Professor Berger has frequently testified in depositions and at trial.

In his research, Professor Berger assesses how text in online reviews, customer service calls, press releases, marketing communications, and other interactions can be used to gain insights about the impact of marketing. He has also studied what makes certain online content go viral, the effects of negative publicity, and how assortment size influences brand perceptions and choice.

Professor Berger is the author of bestselling books on consumer behavior, including Magic Words: What to Say to Get Your Way (2023); The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind (2020); Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior (2016); and Contagious: Why Things Catch On (2013). Amazon cited Contagious among its Best Business Books of the Year.

Professor Berger has published over seventy academic articles, including in leading journals such as the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Consumer Research. His coauthored article “What Makes Online Content Go Viral?” won Sage’s 2023 10-Year Impact Award, which recognizes articles with lasting influence in the decade since their publication. The Journal of Marketing Research https://group.sagepub.com/press-releases/sages-10-year-impact-awards-recognize-research-with-long-term-influencealso honored this article with its William F. O’Dell Award, for significant, long-term contribution to marketing theory, methodology, and/or practice.

The American Management Association named Professor Berger one of the top thirty leaders in business. He consults to major tech firms, global retailers, and leading nonprofit organizations.

Professor Berger has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology, among others. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review often cover his research.

At the Wharton School, Professor Berger has received multiple awards for excellence in research and teaching. He has taught courses on consumer behavior and marketing management, and his online course is one of the most popular in the world.

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