Starkweather Economics provides support for complex litigation, arbitration, disputes and investigations, and other matters for which rigorous economic analysis and expert services are needed. Founder and President Collin Starkweather specializes in financial analysis, competition, technology and intellectual property issues. In over a decade and a half in economics and technology consulting, his experience has included securities regulation and compliance, securities fraud, securities valuation, insider trading, antitrust regulation and enforcement, and merger and acquisition matters as well as damages valuation, patent and other intellectual property disputes, corporate governance, and class certification. His work has spanned industries ranging from banking to technology, telecommunications, insurance, and health care and includes a variety of prominent litigation matters, such as litigation related to the Enron and Lehman Brothers bankruptcies, the so-called bailout of AIG, merger reviews and antitrust litigation related to some of the largest multinational technology and telecommunications firms in the world, and precedent-setting litigation in the smartphone "patent wars." He has provided complex litigation support and other services for leading US and global law firms including Sidley, Orrick, Allen & Overy, Boies Schiller, Katten, Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden, Cleary Gottlieb, Jones Day, Moore & Van Allen, MTO, Mayer Brown, Paul Weiss, Williams & Connolly, and DLA Piper, among others.