Bates White is pleased to announce the promotion of four individuals to Partner: Carolyn Berry, Mathis Wagner, Josh Waizer, and Ben Wolfert.
“I am thrilled to congratulate our newest Partners,” said Managing Partner Scott Weishaar. “Their hard work and expertise are at the heart of the firm’s commitment to providing an exceptional experience for clients. Their contributions will continue to be integral to the high-quality work and services the firm provides.”
Carolyn Berry joined Bates White in 2017 in the Energy Practice. She provides complex economic analysis, advisory services, and expert testimony for clients in the energy sector. She has worked extensively in electric market design and analysis, policy formation, and regulatory issues at both the wholesale and retail levels. Dr. Berry has advised on a wide variety of issues including cost recovery and allocation, mergers and acquisitions, resource operation and planning, and tariff design. In recent work, she has evaluated the terms of utility arrangements for the integration of large data center load in Oregon, Indiana, and West Virginia. She has over 25 years of experience in the energy industry and has prepared and delivered testimony in dozens of proceedings before various US federal and state regulatory bodies.
Mathis Wagner also joined the firm in 2017 in the Antitrust and Competition Practice. His work has focused on monopolization, price fixing, and mergers; the empirical methods used in antitrust and competition analysis, including the estimation of damages and civil penalties; and the analysis of issues related to labor markets, including noncompete and non-solicitation clauses. His recent case work includes Epic Games v. Google and National Football League “Sunday Ticket” Antitrust Litigation. Dr. Wagner has submitted expert reports in a noncompete/non-solicitation case and, on a pro bono basis, a child welfare advocacy case. Prior to Bates White, Dr. Wagner taught microeconomics and labor economics at Boston College and consulted for the World Bank. He has published in leading economics journals, including the Journal of Health Economics and the Journal of Labor Economics.
Josh Waizer has been with the firm since 2011, contributing to several practice areas, including Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Antitrust and Competition. He has expertise analyzing health insurance, provider competition, and reimbursement issues and has submitted an expert report assessing insurer market shares and concentration. He has led teams and supported testifying experts in various matters involving mergers, monopolization and monopsonization, class certification, and damages, including cases such as In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation and Epic Games v. Google. Mr. Waizer also co-leads the firm’s Consultant Development Program, a mentoring program for new staff.
Ben Wolfert joined Bates White in 2007. He specializes in data analysis and project management, leading teams through all stages of litigation across numerous practices. His expertise spans the healthcare arena, including pharmacy benefits managers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurers, and pharmacies, and he also has led teams in antitrust and mass torts insurance cases. Mr. Wolfert also has experience in matters involving the False Claims Act, monopolization, collusion, class certification, market definition, market power, and price fraud, with a focus on life sciences. In addition to his work on client matters, Mr. Wolfert co-leads the firm’s pro bono efforts and coordinates the firm’s substantial support for the Children’s Law Center, a local non-profit organization.
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