Leading Finance and Damages Expert Faten Sabry Joins Compass Lexecon as Senior Managing Director

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Faten Sabry has joined Compass Lexecon as a Senior Managing Director in our New York office. Dr. Sabry joins us from a competing economic consulting firm where she was previously Chair of their Global Securities and Finance Practice. Dr. Sabry provides economic consulting and expert testimony in securities, bankruptcy, and complex damages cases. She has testified as an expert at trial on a wide range of issues in State and Federal Courts, the UK High Court, Canadian Courts, at FINRA proceedings, and in bankruptcy courts.

Dr. Sabry has consulted on the valuation of fixed-income securities, cryptocurrency assets, derivatives, businesses, distressed debt exchanges, and litigation settlements. She has also consulted on complex securities, including cash and synthetic CDOs and asset- and mortgage-backed securities. Dr. Sabry has performed analyses involving issues of class certification, econometric modeling, liability, fraudulent conveyance, and damages in cases ranging from contract disputes to valuing a portfolio of mortgages. Additionally, Dr. Sabry has assessed risk management models, examined the prudence of investments, including hedging strategies, and evaluated rating agencies’ models, loan loss prediction models, and cash flow models.

Dr. Sabry also has extensive experience in product liability and torts. Her work in this area includes estimating the future liabilities in cases involving opioids, asbestos, silica, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, automobiles and construction products; analyzing liabilities related to environmental contamination; assessing recall costs and diminution of value for automobile and construction products; analyzing insurance allocation; applying statistical and content analyses to examine product identification; and analyzing class certification in consumer class actions related to servicing loans and consumer finance.

Dr. Sabry is the author of various articles on the economics of subprime lending, LIBOR, cryptocurrencies, the credit crisis, the impact of securitization on the cost of credit and liquidity, econometric analysis of mutual funds’ advisory fees, claiming behavior, and determinants of anti-dumping protection. Her research has been published in leading finance publications, including the Journal of Structured Finance, the Journal of Fixed Income, Business Economics, and others. Dr. Sabry is the lead author of “Residential Mortgage Defaults, Foreclosures, and Modifications” in The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities.

Dr. Sabry has been designated by the American Statistical Association as an Accredited Professional Statistician. Before beginning her career in economic consulting, Dr. Sabry was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and an assistant professor of economics at the American University in Cairo, where she taught graduate and undergraduate economic courses. She is a member of the American Finance Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Dr. Sabry commented, “I am thrilled and honored to join the talented team of expert economists and professionals at Compass Lexecon. I look forward to working with everyone!”

Compass Lexecon President and Chairman Daniel R. Fischel added, “We are excited to welcome Dr. Sabry to the firm. Her wealth of expertise in securities, product liability, and complex damages cases further strengthens our finance and damages practice.”