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Chris Groves, Managing Economist resume

Chris Groves, Managing Economist Mr. Groves is in his eleventh year in litigation consulting, having done virtually every data-related task imaginable. He is skilled in most data manipulation and regression packages, which he uses to synthesize large datasets with economic theory in order to distill meaningful results. He has extensive experience in Securities Litigation, including class actions, valuations of employee stock options, and analysis of intraday trading and quoting behavior in the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ markets. Many of these cases have involved the creation of market-based event studies using large, detailed datasets. In his antitrust work, he has used the same skills to analyze large quantities of pricing, sales, and market data to measure the effect of relevant economic phenomena.

Mr. Groves is a CFA charterholder – a designation awarded based on professional achievement in the finance industry and the successful completion of comprehensive exams on a wide breadth of financial analysis topics. He has a BA from UC Berkeley in Political Economy of Industrial Societies and French. Mr. Groves has served as consultant to counsel on cases including major class actions in involving the monopolization claims of consumer goods and price-fixing claims of computer components. One of his current engagements involves the valuation of damages to a group of plaintiffs resulting from their company's acquisition by a firm with an allegedly fraudulently inflated stock price.