Richard S. Higgins
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PhD, Economics, University of Virginia
BA, Economics, Louisiana State University
Richard S. Higgins, Ph.D. focuses his antitrust consulting practice on economic analysis of competition issues, including mergers and acquisitions, vertical restraints, price fixing liability and damages and class certification. Richard has worked as an economist in private and public sector roles since 1980. He has experience in business litigation, antitrust, and mergers and acquisitions in many industries. He has supervised merger investigations for clients such as Cargill, Nestle, Anheuser Busch, PepsiCo, and a global alcoholic beverages company; and he supervised the economic analysis of Heinz’s proposed acquisition of Beech Nut that was presented to the agencies. Richard has also submitted affidavits to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) addressing the federal court’s line of business restrictions, and he co-authored affidavits with Professor Janusz Ordover addressing the competitive effects of Comcast and Time Warner’s acquisition of Adelphia. Richard supervised key aspects of the damage analysis in the well-known vitamins class action for one of the major defendants.
Richard has published numerous articles in professional journals and books in the fields of law and economics, economic regulation, and antitrust policy, on topics such as the competitive effects of U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) prohibitions on “reverse payments” by branded pharmaceutical companies, computational methods for analyzing mergers among firms in spatial competition and the short-run competitive effects of vertical integration.
Richard has been in antitrust consulting for twenty years. He was at the FTC for several years before joining CapAnalysis where he worked for fourteen years. Since his departure from CapAnalysis he has worked at LECG and Compass and, most recently, has been a Senior Consultant at CapAnalysis and at the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, DC.