Financial Institutions

Brattle Associate Mohnish Zaveri and Consultant Anna Parlin will participate in a Knowledge Group webcast, “Business Interruption Insurance Coverage Claims and Litigation: What You Must Know and Do Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which will take place Monday, June 14 from 9:00–10:30 a.m. (PT) | 12:00–1:30 p.m. (ET). The recording will be available 24–48 hours after the webinar.

“Risk Capital: Theory and Applications,” by Brattle Principals Stewart Myers and James Read, with Isil Erel of Ohio State University, is the lead article in the latest issue of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. The article presents a theory of risk capital and principles for allocating capital to investments and contracts made by financial firms.

The turnover of a CEO, whether forced or voluntary, can have significant long-term effects on the future performance of a firm. Brattle Senior Associate Dr. Yingzhen Li has coauthored an article on institutional trading and information flows surrounding CEO turnovers in the Journal of Corporate Finance.

Brattle Associate Dr. Ryan Leary has coauthored a chapter in Oxford University Press’ Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony.

Brattle Principal Branko Jovanovic will join the Volterra Fietta virtual seminar, “Addressing Payments Defaults and Flow of Funds Difficulties During the COVID-19 Crisis,” which will take place on November 25 at 8:30 a.m. (ET) / 1:30 p.m. (GMT).

Brattle Associate Suzanne Steele has coauthored an article, “Stress Testing and Bank Business Patterns: A Regression Discontinuity Study,” published in the Journal of Banking and Finance.

Brattle Director of Global Development James Keyte and Brattle Principal Michael Cragg will speak at the Concurrences and Morgan Lewis “Antitrust in the Financial Sector: Hot Issues & Global Perspectives” conference, to be held May 1 in New York, NY.

Brattle Principal George Oldfield and Associate John Anthony co-authored an article for Law360 detailing the risk associated with the current market for collateralized loan obligations (“CLO”) and potential parallels with the subprime mortgage market leading up to the financial crisis.

Brattle Academic Advisor Michael Goldstein will discuss “The Value of a Millisecond: Harnessing Information in Fast, Fragmented Markets" at the 5th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation.

The Brattle Group Prizes for best papers in Corporate Finance for 2017, judged to be exceptional by the associate editors of The Journal of Finance, were awarded at the 2017 American Finance Association's Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA on January 5-7, 2018.

Brattle Associate John Anthony recently co-authored the study “Liquidity commonality in the secondary corporate loan market” for the December 2017 issue of Economics Letters.

Brattle Principal Bruce Tsuchida will present at the 2017 Caribbean Renewable Energy Form (CREF), taking place October 18-20, 2017 in Miami, FL.

Brattle Principal Jürgen Weiss will present at California ISO’s 2017 Stakeholder Symposium, taking place October 18-19, 2017 in Sacramento, CA.

In the first of a series of papers examining key economic, regulatory, and legal issues related to target date funds (TDFs), Brattle experts Chris Laursen, Ioannis Gkatzimas, and Branko Jovanovic provide an overview of TDFs, report on significant market trends, and summarize recent related litigation.

Brattle Associate John Anthony will participate in the upcoming Global Credit Data conference, taking place September 25-26th, 2017 in New York, NY.

Speakers from The Brattle Group and Morrison & Foerster LLP will present during a seminar on “Core Principles for Financial Regulation,” on September 12, 2017 from 8:30 - 10:00 AM EST.

Brattle Senior Associate Michael Kline will present at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ (NARUC) Summer Policy Summit, taking place July 17-19, 2017 in San Diego, CA.

Brattle Associate Shastri Sandy will present at the Midwest Finance Association’s (MFA) 66th Annual Conference taking place March 1-4, 2017 in Chicago, IL

The Brattle Group announced today that finance expert Laurence Freed has joined the firm’s New York office as a senior consultant.

The Brattle Group Prizes for best papers in Corporate Finance for 2016, judged to be exceptional by the associate editors of The Journal of Finance, were awarded at the 2017 American Finance Association's (AFA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL on January 6-8, 2017.

Brattle principal Metin Celebi will present that the upcoming Wisconsin Energy Institute 2015 Energy Summit, “Air & Energy: The Path Ahead for U.S. States,” taking place October 12-14, 2015 in Madison, WI.

Brattle principals Paul Hinton and Mark Sarro, associate Rand Ghayad, and Kevin Rosenberg of Lowenstein & Weatherwax recently co-authored an article on Law360, “Big Data’s Big Impact In Financial Investigations,” which describes the challenges in detecting trade-based money laundering (TBML) for financial institutions, other businesses, and law enforcement.

Last week the record for Starr International Co. Inc. et al. v. U.S. closed after 37 days of trial. This epic case involves the shareholders of American International Group Inc. (AIG) claiming compensation of nearly $50 billion for the U.S. Government’s taking and/or illegally exacting 79.9 percent of shareholders’ equity at the peak of the financial crisis the day after Lehman failed. The team supported the testimony of Brattle principal Michael Cragg who testified over the course of five days.

Andrew Abere and Lisa Cameron have been selected to present at an upcoming meeting of the New York State Bar Association’s Antitrust Section Executive Committee and the New York City Bar Association’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee. The event will take place on October 15, 2014 at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York, NY.

Coleman Bazelon testified in the closely watched voting rights case, Marc Veasey, et al. vs. Rick Perry, et al., that African Americans in Texas are disproportionately impacted economically by a Texas law requiring voters to present photo identification to retain the right to vote in person.

Brattle principals Rich Goldberg and Ioannis Gkatzimas will be presenting at the upcoming DataLead 2014 Conference, taking place September 30 to October 2, 2014 in Berkeley, CA.

Brattle consultants presented a half-day workshop on the growth of demand response technology in the electric utility industry before the Energy Regulatory Commission of Thailand, along with other representatives on July 16, 2014 at EnerNOC’s Boston headquarters.

Principal Torben Voetmann and senior associate Pavitra Kumar, along with Zachary Ziliak of Ziliak Law, have authored an article that discusses the complexities and challenges for experts arising from increased litigation surrounding high-frequency trading.