Alan G. White

Managing Principal
Alan G. White

Boston

Education

Ph.D., economics, University of British Columbia; M. Litt., economics and B.A., economics and mathematics, University of Dublin, Trinity College

Summary of Experience

Dr. White specializes in health care, transfer pricing and valuation, and general commercial litigation. He combines his expertise in applied microeconomics, statistics, and econometrics with nearly 25 years of experience with client engagements. A diverse range of clients have retained Dr. White to assist in all stages of the litigation cycle – including advising on discovery issues, expert report preparation, and preparation for deposition and trial. He has worked on general commercial litigation matters such as allegations of false advertising and breach of contract, investigations into alleged off-label promotion of prescription drugs, and the economic impact of generic drug entry/substitution. Additionally, he has also analyzed economic issues relevant to class certification and quantification of damages.

Dr. White has managed numerous commercial litigation matters, supporting academic and industry specialists with expertise in industrial organization, statistics, health economics, and marketing. His tax and transfer pricing work has evaluated the arm’s length nature of pricing in intercompany transactions, and the estimation of useful economic lives for various tangible and intangible assets. In addition to his litigation work, Dr. White’s health economics engagements have included the development of empirical models for evaluating factors to help identify patients at risk of prescription opioid abuse, as well as the estimation of societal economic costs of prescription opioid abuse.

An active researcher, Dr. White’s publications have focused on specific health economics issues, such as the economics of prescription opioid abuse and the evaluation of the impact of biosimilar approval on the litigation landscape. He has presented and participated in a number of industry conferences. Dr. White is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses on applied microeconomics and applied econometrics.

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