Stephen E. Cacciola

Stephen Cacciola is a Senior Vice President with Compass Lexecon based in Boston. He specializes in the application of microeconomics and statistics to the areas of antitrust, intellectual property, and the estimation of commercial damages. He has assisted clients in all phases of the litigation process, and has supported expert witnesses in the preparation of reports and other testimony in matters involving allegations of price-fixing and exclusionary conduct, class certification, patent and trademark disputes, and statistical sampling and extrapolation methodologies. His case work has included economic analyses pertaining to the agricultural, airline, automobile, consumer goods, financial services, medical device, payment card, pharmaceutical, and software application industries. Dr. Cacciola has recently supported testifying experts in the evaluation of economic issues related to global price-fixing conspiracies; the assessment of class certification, market definition, and market power in several antitrust disputes; and the setting of royalty rates for standard essential patents used in technical standards. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University.