Nels Pearsall

Director

B.A., Economics, Virginia Tech
M.A., Economics, Virginia Tech

Nels Pearsall has more than 20 years experience as a testifying expert and economic consultant for public and private entities as well as federal and state agencies. He has furnished expert opinions in matters involving the determination of economic damages and valuation of intangible assets. Mr. Pearsall also has provided expert testimony and consulted in numerous intellectual property matters involving determinations of economic damages based on applications of reasonable royalty rates, lost profits, price erosion, and overall changes in firms' IP asset values. He has been retained as an expert to determine values of intellectual property assets such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Mr. Pearsall has provided testimony and quantified damages associated with changes in firms' sales and/or market strategy resulting from events affecting firms' abilities to compete.

Mr. Pearsall also has worked extensively on antitrust issues including attempted monopolization, price discrimination, tying, predatory pricing, price fixing, collusion, vertical and horizontal restraints. He has submitted expert reports and developed economic analyses of liability and damage claims in antitrust matters in which allegations of anticompetitive behavior were advanced.

Mr. Pearsall has provided testimony regarding economic damages in commercial disputes involving unanticipated events within a market, breach of contract, changes in asset value, fiduciary duty, lost wages and operating margins. He has developed economic and financial models to analyze loss in firm value and used event studies to model changes in firms' share price associated with negative events.

Mr. Pearsall received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Master of Arts degree in Economics from Virginia Tech.