Finance Expert Elaine Buckberg Joins The Brattle Group From U.S. Treasury Department

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Oct 03, 2016, 10:34 ET

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Global economic consulting firm The Brattle Group announced today that finance expert Dr. Elaine Buckberg has joined the firm's Washington, DC office as a principal.

Dr. Buckberg is an economist with over 20 years of consulting, policy, and expert witness experience. She provides consulting services and testimony in litigation and regulatory disputes in finance, complex commercial litigation, and bankruptcy and advises parties in public-private partnerships for infrastructure investment. Her experience spans civil, regulatory, and criminal issues in the United States and Europe and includes testimony in federal and state court and in arbitrations.

Dr. Buckberg has assisted clients in responding to regulatory rulemakings and consulted on regulatory and internal investigations. Her recent expert and consulting work has focused on hedge funds, valuation of complex derivatives, securities class actions, and foreign exchange trading.

Prior to joining Brattle, Dr. Buckberg served as deputy assistant secretary for policy coordination at the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Economic Policy. In this role, she advised the Treasury Secretary and senior staff on policy issues including financial regulatory reform, housing finance, infrastructure, anti-money laundering (AML), virtual currency, and economic policy options for Puerto Rico. Dr. Buckberg led teams in the development and economic analysis of the qualified financial contract, fiduciary duty, and customer due diligence rules. She also played a major role in initiating and executing President Obama's Build America Investment Initiative on infrastructure, including authoring two white papers on public-private partnerships.

"Elaine's experience as a testifying expert and industry practitioner deepens our financial litigation and regulation teams," remarked Brattle President Alexis Maniatis. "Her involvement in major economic policy initiatives and high-profile consulting engagements will be an asset to Brattle clients and colleagues."

Before her government service, Dr. Buckberg was a senior vice president at NERA Economic Consulting, a vice president at Morgan Stanley, an economist at the International Monetary Fund, and a lecturer at Georgetown University's School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and an undergraduate degree from Yale University.

The Brattle Group analyzes complex economic, finance, and regulatory questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world. We are distinguished by the clarity of our insights and the credibility of our experts, which include leading international academics and industry specialists. For more information, please visit www.brattle.com.

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