About us
Our firm
Bates White is a place where people are passionate, empowered, engaged, and excited to come to work every day. We strive to exceed client expectations, share personal interests with colleagues, grow careers, and give back to the community.
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Passionate problem-solvers. Clear communicators. Strong principles. Dynamic approaches.
Bates White specializes in providing advanced economic, financial, and econometric analysis to law firms, companies, and government agencies. We help clients tackle tough issues with confidence and pride ourselves on delivering top-notch consulting and expert testimony.
We bring together bright minds, invest in their careers, and foster collaboration across practices and job levels. For clients, that translates into tailored, multidisciplinary teams, and closer working relationships that deliver effective solutions.
History and values
At Bates White, personal and professional integrity are paramount. When Charles Bates, Hal White, and three other economists founded the firm in 1999, they wanted a firm that would invest in and empower individuals, respect and trust their judgment, value collegiality and diverse contributions, and share risks and rewards. The Guiding Principles they set in place continue to drive the firm’s strategy, approach, and culture.
Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEI&B)
Bates White is deeply committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture. We recognize that each individual contributes unique ideas, perspectives, and interests that enable us to maintain a dynamic environment, encourage creativity, and deliver high-quality results for our clients.
Through everyday interactions—with the support of our formal diversity and inclusion programs and networks—we create a culture of belonging. Learn more about DEI&B at Bates White and our employee networks.
Giving back
At Bates White, employees drive our philanthropic efforts—whether it is through fundraising, volunteering, or providing expertise. Learn more.
Your Economic Consulting Firm
Meet our expert team
Dedicated professionals driving your success
Jeffrey F. Brown, PhD
- Partner
- San Diego, CA
email: jeff.brown@bateswhitellc.com
Chief Executive Officer
Jeffrey Brown has over 20 years of experience as an economist in projects related to litigation and business strategy. His expertise includes empirical analysis of issues involving antitrust, intellectual property, and damages estimation. He has provided expert analysis and testimony for cases in the computer software, construction, semiconductor, and wireless technology industries. Outside of litigation, Dr. Brown has consulted with businesses on database design, pharmaceutical marketing strategy, IP licensing alternatives, and cost of capital analysis. Dr. Brown currently leads cases in the Antitrust and Intellectual Property Practices.
Education
PhD, Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
BA, Economics, Stanford University
A. Rachel Grinberg, PhD
- Partner
- Washington, DC
email: rachel.grinberg@bateswhitellc.com
Chief Economic Consultant
Rachel Grinberg is an expert on issues involving price-fixing litigation, competitive effects, class actions, and bankruptcies. She specializes in developing economic estimation techniques to determine whether anticompetitive conduct occurred and to measure its impact. She has led numerous economic analyses in large antitrust matters involving allegations of collusion, monopolization, and the potential anti-competitive effects of mergers. She is also an expert in the insurance allocation arena for dispute resolution and coverage litigation.
Education
PhD, Mathematics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
MS, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Mainz, Germany
Eric M. Gaier, PhD
- Partner
- Washington, DC
email: eric.gaier@bateswhitellc.com
Chief Economic Officer
Dr. Eric M. Gaier is a founding member of Bates White, LLC, and currently serves on the firm's Board of Directors. He focuses on matters in the Antitrust and Competition, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Practices. Dr. Gaier has significant experience in the application of economic and statistical analyses to antitrust, intellectual property, False Claims Act (FCA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), California Unfair Competition Law (UCL), commercial success, and other legal frameworks. He specializes in economic analysis of issues associated with class certification, liability, causation, and damages.
Dr. Gaier has testified and consulted for government, law firm, and corporate clients across a variety of industries including health insurance, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, retail sales, agriculture, technology, commercial aviation, aerospace manufacturing, and defense procurement.
Education
PhD, Economics, Duke University
MA, Economics, Duke University
BA, Economics, Florida State University
Christopher Bennett, PhD, PStat®
- Partner
- Washington, DC
email: chris.bennett@bateswhite.com
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Bennett is an economist and accredited statistician with expertise in damages estimation, financial modeling, data analytics, econometric and statistical analysis, and statistical sampling. He has been retained to provide testimony in federal and state courts on a range of issues including damages, class certification, and statistical sampling, on behalf of government agencies, law firms, and corporate clients. In his roles as both a testifying expert and consultant, Dr. Bennett has gained significant experience in a wide range of high-profile matters involving financial securities, structured products, contract claims, copyright infringement, the allocation of copyright royalties, and qui tam actions brought under the False Claims Act.
Education
PhD, Economics, University of Western Ontario
Thesis: “Essays on Estimation Risk and Stochastic Dominance in Economics”
MA, Economics, University of Waterloo
MRP: “Option Pricing with Two-State Stochastic Volatility”
BCom, Finance, Ryerson University