Susan Manning
Senior Vice President
Dr. Manning has over 20 years of economics and litigation consulting experience, including extensive expertise in antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, international trade, and regulatory policy analysis. Dr. Manning has provided economic analyses in support of mergers and acquisitions, filed under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, before the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission and before the European Commission in a broad range of industries, including heavy construction equipment, medium and heavy duty truck components, wholesale book distribution, computer components, industrial software, storage media, bread, carbonated soft drinks, pet food, and other industrial and consumer products.
Dr. Manning has performed economic analysis for antitrust litigation involving monopolization, attempted monopolization, unfair competition, Clayton Act Section 7, vertical restraints, tortious interference, and fraud. She has also provided estimated lost profit and restitution damages for plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust, going-concern, breach of contract disputes, Lanham Act trademark and false advertising disputes, and intellectual property litigation. Dr. Manning has provided expert testimony in Section 337 litigation on irreparable harm and downstream remedies in unfair trade practices involving intellectual property.
Dr. Manning also has testified before the International Trade Commission on injury and causation analyses in support of petitioners and respondents in anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations, Sunset Reviews, and Section 201 investigations before the International Trade Commission. She has also performed analyses of the economic effects of U.S. trade policy and foreign market barriers on the competitiveness of various U.S. industries.