Martha Samuelson

CEO and Chairman, Analysis Group

Martha Samuelson is an expert in antitrust, finance and valuation, combining more than 25 years of experience in applying economic and financial analysis to complex legal disputes with five years of experience as a practicing trial attorney. A key aspect of Ms Samuelson’s work is the direction of economic analyses for merger review, regulatory investigations and large private litigations. Working on behalf of the US Department of Justice, she led the case team that successfully challenged the proposed merger of Anthem and Cigna. She has managed economic analyses of antitrust issues in more than 100 matters during her career, including numerous government, competitor and consumer matters on behalf of MasterCard over more than two decades, and on behalf of Microsoft for a similar period. Ms Samuelson has also provided analyses of issues of class certification, period. Ms Samuelson has also provided analyses of issues of class certification, liability and damages in a broad set of technology and financial services-related cases, and has analysed economic issues relating to government investigations and mergers involving companies in technology and healthcare. She has served as an expert in many phases of litigation, including development of economic and financial models; preparation of testimony; development, presentation and review of pretrial discovery; and critique of economic and financial analyses of opposing experts.