Laura Perkins is a Managing Director at Coherent Economics. She brings more than 30 years of experience advising private clients and government agencies on competition and regulatory matters across a broad range of industries, including healthcare and life sciences, technology and communications, consumer products, and professional sports.
Laura is known for delivering rigorous economic analyses that blend strong qualitative insights with advanced quantitative methods to support clients in litigation and regulatory investigations. Her expertise includes antitrust matters such as monopolization, price fixing, bundling and tying, and exclusionary conduct. She has also led economic evaluations of merger efficiencies, competitive effects, and remedy proposals in merger reviews.
Laura has worked extensively with the U.S. Department of Justice, state attorneys general, and major corporate clients on high-stakes economic matters. She is also a member of the American Economic Association, the American Bar Association, and the American Health Lawyers Association. She received her M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Key Engagements
- Led the economics team in the States’ antitrust suit challenging Google’s Play Store practices. Provided the full spectrum of economic analyses from defining markets through quantifying damages.
- On behalf of the US DOJ Antitrust Division, evaluated issues of market definition, market power, and the likely competitive effects of Aon’s proposed acquisition of competing insurance broker WTW.
- Assessed likely competitive effects of several health plan consolidations; evaluated market definition, competitive effects, likelihood and sufficiency of entry and expansion, merger efficiencies, and monopsony power over providers.
- In a class action against a major healthcare system, assessed market definition and harm to competition from its use of anti-steering provisions in contracts with health insurers.
- Assessed damages to a major health data supplier resulting from a competitor’s infringement of patents related to the anonymous linking of patient healthcare data records.
- Evaluated the overlap of fiber-based telecommunications assets in a proposed merger of business data services firms before the U.S. Department of Justice.
- Evaluated allegations of attempted monopolization in several matters against a dominant cell-phone-chip maker.
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