Dr. Mary Coleman is the managing director of LECG's mergers and acquisition practice. From November 2001 until rejoining LECG in May 2004, Dr. Coleman was the deputy director for antitrust in the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission. In this role, she headed the antitrust group in the Bureau of Economics and was involved in all antitrust investigations at the FTC as well as several non-enforcement projects. Dr. Coleman received her PhD in economics from Stanford University. Prior to her most recent position at the FTC, she was a principal at LECG from 1993 to 2001 and served as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission from 1990 to 1993, including as lead economist on the Commission's investigation of Microsoft.
Dr. Coleman's consulting practice specializes in mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, and antitrust and intellectual property litigation. She has experience with a wide range of industries and has published a number of articles on topics such as antitrust analysis in high technology industries, the use of merger guidelines in various international jurisdictions, and the use of econometrics and other empirical methods in antitrust analysis. |