Pavel Darling

Boston
Education
M.B.A., MIT Sloan School of Management; B.A., economics, Middlebury College
Summary of Experience
Mr. Darling provides consulting and expert testimony support in complex litigation matters. He performs quantitative analyses to address litigation, strategy, and policy questions, primarily in the health care and energy sectors, and has extensive experience with a range of sophisticated economic modeling tools and techniques. He also conducts economic impact analyses across a variety of industries, including energy, construction, automotive, and real estate.
In his health care work, Mr. Darling supports expert testimony across a wide range of litigation matters, including reverse payment settlements – in which he supports expert testimony and manages case teams in the analysis of claims data and contractual agreements – and damages assessments in antitrust and patent infringement cases. He also works extensively in matters involving opioids and other controlled substances. In those engagements, Mr. Darling has designed and implemented customized suspicious order monitoring and loss prevention programs, and analyzed the market impacts of changes in the scheduling of controlled substances. He has presented damages findings before Offices of the US Attorneys and the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Mr. Darling is also an expert on energy matters, focusing on electricity and natural gas pricing, markets, and infrastructure. He has performed a wide range of economic and environmental assessments of new construction projects, retirements, and mergers. In these matters, he has both provided and supported expert testimony, in litigation and before federal and state regulatory bodies. Mr. Darling has also consulted to a range of energy clients, including utilities, state and regional organizations, and global companies.
Provided Expert Testimony
Additional Cases
- Analysis of Economic Feasibility of Proposed Coal Plant
- Assessing Market Needs to Evaluate Natural Gas Pipeline Development
- Assessing the Environmental Impact of the Siting of a Natural Gas Power Plant
- Assessing Transmission-for-Renewables Projects
- Conducting a Review of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s Impact on Consumer Electricity Bills
- Controlled Substance Monitoring and Effective Controls Against Diversion: Investigations and Settlements
- Controlled Substance Suspicious Order Monitoring Modeling
- Economic Impact Reporting for Exelon Corporation
- In re: The Application of Transource Maryland LLC for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity
- In the Matter of Skipjack Offshore Energy, LLC’s Qualified Offshore Wind Project's Compliance with Conditions Approved in 2017
- Merger of AltaGas Ltd. and WGL Holdings, Inc.
- Pharmaceutical Off-Label Promotion & Kickbacks Settlements
- State of North Carolina, ex rel. Roy Cooper, Attorney General, v. Tennessee Valley Authority
- The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States
Selected Publishing
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An Expanding Carbon Cap-and-trade Regime? A Decade of Experience with RGGI Charts a Path Forward
The Electricity Journal, June 2018
2018 -
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The Proposed Northern Pass Transmission Project: Assessing its impacts on New Hampshire
White Paper, February 2017
2017 -
Viewing Recent Opioid Regulations In Context
Law360, April 1, 2016
2016 -
Project Vigilance: Functional Feasibility Study for the Installation of Ambri Energy Storage Batteries at Joint Base Cape Cod
Functional Feasibility Study, February 2014
2014 -
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Demand Response in Capacity Markets: Reliability, Dispatch and Emission Outcomes
Electricity Journal, November 2012, Vol. 25, Issue 9
2012 -
Generation Fleet Turnover in New England: Modeling Energy Market Impacts
White Paper, June 2011
2011Schatzki T, Hibbard P, Darling P, Clinton B
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The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States
White Paper, November 2011
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Events
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June 21, 2022
News
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September 9, 2021
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July 6, 2021
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July 1, 2021
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October 15, 2020
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September 29, 2020
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July 29, 2020
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AG Feature
Priming the Pump for Economic Recovery by Investing in Advanced Energy
- AG Feature Assessing Market Needs to Evaluate Natural Gas Pipeline Development
- Related Practice Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
- AG Feature Performance and Economic Analyses to Support the Siting Approval of a New Natural Gas Peaker Plant
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AG Feature
What’s in the Record? Implications of the Asacol Case for Pharmaceutical Class Actions
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Health Care Bulletin
Viewing Recent Opioid Regulations in Context
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Case Outcome
Assessing Transmission-for-Renewables Projects
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AG Feature
Assessing the EPA’s Clean Power Plan
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Case Outcome
Conducting a Review of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s Impact on Consumer Electricity Bills