Emily Cotton
Education
M.B.A., The University of Chicago Booth School of Business; B.A., economics and international relations, Carleton College
Summary of Experience
Ms. Cotton has extensive experience conducting complex quantitative and qualitative analyses of data in both mergers and litigation matters. She has supported experts from leading universities and managed case teams in a broad range of industries on matters related to antitrust, bankruptcy, class certification, intellectual property, securities, survey design, tax, and transfer pricing. Her recent case work has included assessing competitive effects in major antitrust matters and mergers; analyzing Federal Trade Commission (FTC), US Department of Justice (DOJ), and Canadian Competition Bureau (CCB) merger compliance, including assistance with Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filings, second requests, divestiture analysis, advocacy, and merger trial testimony; managing the independent evaluation of large-scale transaction and customer datasets in major antitrust matters; examining damages issues in a data breach context; and determining arm’s-length pricing in a large US transfer pricing matter. Ms. Cotton also has substantial experience evaluating questions of commonality and typicality in the context of privacy, technology, data breach, pharmaceutical, medical device, and overcharge class actions.
- AbbVie Inc.'s Acquisition of Allergan PLC
- Cintas Corporation Acquisition of GK Services
- Denimafia Inc v New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc et al and New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc v Denimafia Inc
- Discovery Communications, Inc. Acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
- Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms Inc., et al.
- Kenneth Hobbs v Brother International Corporation et al
- Lightbourne v. CBS Interactive, et al.
- Pirnik v. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, et al.
- WEX Inc Acquisition of Electronic Funds Source LLC
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Is Data “The New Oil”? Non-Price Effects of Mergers in Data-Intensive Industries
CPI Antitrust Chronicle, January 2024
2024 -
How the Debate about Multi-Sided Platform Regulation is Shaping Merger Enforcement
Digital Markets Guide, 2023
2023Caminade J, Cotton E, Garces E
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United States: Platform Economics and Mergers
Global Competition Review, Digital Markets Guide, Edition 1, November 2021
2021 -
The Tyranny of Market Shares: Incorporating Survey-Based Evidence into Merger Analysis
Corporate Disputes, Jul-Sep 2018
2018 -
The assessment of mergers in online and offline retail sales: Are new tools needed for the economist’s toolbox?
Concurrences No. 3 - 2018
2018Cotton E, Fix A
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New Technologies and Obsolete Analyses: Internet Search and the Analysis of Market Definition
American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, The Economics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2017
2017
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August 20, 2021
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June 6, 2024
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February 6, 2024
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February 1, 2024
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January 2, 2024
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June 27, 2023
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April 7, 2023
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February 27, 2023
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December 8, 2021
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June 2, 2021
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April 6, 2021