Economic Consulting Awards

FTI Consulting and its Compass Lexecon subsidiary had the most professionals named to the Who’s Who Legal: Consulting Experts guide, a comprehensive guide of leading professionals across the globe specializing in economic, forensic and litigation and transactional services.

Global Arbitration Review has recognized FTI Consulting and its Compass Lexecon subsidiary as the top two expert witness firms in its annual GAR 100 Expert Witness Firms’ Power Index. Compass Lexecon ranked first for the second consecutive year, and FTI Consulting ranked second, up from fourth the previous year.

FTI Consulting was named Arbitration Consulting Firm of the Year for the fifth consecutive year. FTI Consulting has won the honor each year since first introduced in 2015. The award was given based on Who’s Who Legal research and performance in jurisdictions around the world compared to peer firms.

Compass Lexecon topped Who’s Who Legal’s Thought Leaders - Competition 2019 list with the most experts recognized in its inaugural edition. In addition, Compass Lexecon had nine experts recognized in Who’s Who Legal’s Thought Leaders - Global Elite 2019 guide.

FTI Consulting topped the list for the ninth consecutive year, with 54 expert witnesses from the firm’s Economic Consulting segment, including its Compass Lexecon subsidiary, and its Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment.

Scott Nystrom, Katie O’Hare and Ken Ditzel were awarded with the George I. Treyz Silver Award for their paper, “The Economic, Fiscal, and Emissions Impacts of a Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax.” 

In the Who’s Who Legal Energy Experts 2018 Analysis, four FTI Consulting experts and five Compass Lexecon experts were recognized. Compass Lexecon was also one of eight featured as a leading firm.

Who’s Who Legal released its Competition 2018: Economists Analysis. Compass Lexecon had the most experts recognized with 42 experts from six countries. In addition, Compass Lexecon experts Miguel de la Mano, Neil Dryden, Jorge Padilla, Dennis Carlton, Janusz Ordover and Jonathan Orszag were named among the top Competition Thought Leaders.

In the Competition – Future Leaders 2018: Economists Analysis, two Compass Lexecon experts, Andy Parkinson and Loren Smith, were recognized. Loren Smith also was named one of the most highly regarded future leaders in North America.

Compass Lexecon was recognized as Competition Economics Firm of the Year for the fourth consecutive year. Compass Lexecon has won the honor each year since first introduced in 2015. The award was given based on Who’s Who Legal research and performance in jurisdictions around the world compared to peer firms.

FTI Consulting was named Arbitration Consulting Firm of the Year for the fourth consecutive year. FTI Consulting has won the honor each year since first introduced in 2015. The award was given based on Who’s Who Legal research and performance in jurisdictions around the world compared to peer firms.

Compass Lexecon has been recognized as the top expert witness firm by Global Arbitration Review (GAR) in the GAR 100 Expert Witness Firms’ Power Index. The Index looks at information gathered from international arbitration hearings to quantify the activity of expert firms over a two year period.

For the eleventh consecutive year, Compass Lexecon has been recognized as one of the top competition economics consulting firms by the Global Competition Review (GCR) in its annual Economics 20 survey.

Ken Ditzel, Scott Nystrom and Evan Klein were awarded with the George I. Treyz Award for their paper, “Oregon Cap-and-Trade -- An Analysis of the Economic Impacts of Oregon SB 1574 (2016).”

FTI Consulting topped the list for the eighth consecutive year, with 49 expert witnesses from the firm’s Economic Consulting segment, including its Compass Lexecon subsidiary, and its Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment.

FTI Consulting and its Compass Lexecon subsidiary were recognized in the second edition of the Who’s Who Legal: Consulting Experts guide, a comprehensive guide of the leading professionals across the globe specializing in economic, forensic and litigation and transactional services.

FTI Consulting and its Compass Lexecon subsidiary were named Arbitration Consulting Firm of the Year and Competition Economics Firm of the Year for the third consecutive year at the annual Who's Who Legal Awards. In addition, FTI Consulting was named Consulting Firm of the Year and Quantum of Damages Firm of the Year.

Compass Lexecon's Professor Janusz Ordover was named the Competition Economist of the Year for 2017 at the 4th Annual Who's Who Legal Awards in London on May 15, 2017. This is the third year in a row that Janusz Ordover has received this award.  

Who’s Who Legal released its Competition 2017: Economists Analysis. Compass Lexecon had the most experts recognized with 38 experts from five countries. In addition, Compass Lexecon experts Janusz Ordover and Jorge Padilla were named two of the top five Competition Thought Leaders.

In the Competition – Future Leaders 2017: Economists Analysis, 11 Compass Lexecon experts from four countries were recognized. Two Compass Lexecon experts – Miguel de la Mano and Jonathan Orszag – were named as two of the most highly regarded future leaders.

Global Competition Review recognized Mary Coleman, Kirsten Edwards-Warren, and Margaret Guerin-Calvert as three of the top 10 female antitrust economists in its Women in Antitrust 2016: Economists, more than any other firm recognized. 

FTI Consulting topped Global Arbitration Review’s Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2017 list for the seventh consecutive year with 49 expert witnesses from the firm’s Economic Consulting segment, including its subsidiary Compass Lexecon, and its Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment. 

FTI Consulting’s Howard Rosen, Neal Mizrahi, and Chris Milburn were named in Who’s Who Legal’s Canada: Arbitration Expert Witness 2016 list. The list includes specialist expert witness in Canada who are well known for their experience and expertise in an arbitration setting.

FTI Consulting and its subsidiary, Compass Lexecon, were recognized among the most highly regarded firms in the first edition of the Who's Who Legal: Consulting Experts guide. FTI Consulting and Compass Lexecon had the most experts named in this influential guide, with 98 experts identified from the Company's Economic Consulting, Forensic & Litigation Consulting and Technology segments.

The awards won by the Economic Consulting segment include:

• Who’s Who Legal named FTI Consulting the 2016 Arbitration Expert Firm of the Year for the second consecutive year.
• Compass Lexecon, a subsidiary of FTI Consulting was named by Who’s Who Legal as the 2016 Competition Economics Firm of the Year for the second consecutive year. 

Compass Lexecon's Professor Janusz Ordover was named the Competition Economist of the Year for 2016 at the 3rd Annual Who's Who Legal Awards in New York on April 11, 2016. This is the second year in a row that Janusz Ordover has received this award.  

Who's Who Legal released its list of Who's Who in Competition Economics. Compass Lexecon had 30 experts including four academic affiliates from seven countries nominated.

Global Competition Review awarded Neil Dryden, an Executive Vice President in our London office, its 2016 Economist of the Year award. Mr. Dryden was cited for his work on the BT/EE merger. In this highly contested merger, he developed models to assess vertical foreclosure theories of harm and made written and oral submissions to the UK Competition and Markets Authority.

The award was presented by Concurrences and George Washington University Law School. Carlton and Keating’s paper, "Rethinking Antitrust in the Presence of Transactions Costs: Coasian Implications," was published in the June 2015 Review of Industrial Organization. The paper analyzes using both theory and merger simulation how transactions costs influence the ability to charge differential pricing and how market structure and industry behavior affect those transactions costs.

FTI Consulting has maintained its top position on Global Arbitration Review’s 2016 International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration list. For 2016, FTI Consulting topped the list for the sixth consecutive year with 34 expert witnesses from the Company’s Economic Consulting segment, including its subsidiary Compass Lexecon, and from the firm’s Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment.

Who’s Who Legal recognized FTI Consulting as the Arbitration Expert Firm of the Year for 2015.

Compass Lexecon is proud to announce that we were named the Competition Economist Firm of the Year for 2015 at the Who's Who Legal Awards in Washington, DC on April 27, 2015. While the Who's Who Legal Awards have been presented since 2005, this is the first time awards have been presented for Competition Economist Firm of the Year.

Compass Lexecon's Professor Janusz Ordover was named the Competition Economist of the Year for 2015 at the Who's Who Legal Awards in Washington, DC on April 27, 2015. While the Who's Who Legal Awards have been presented since 2005, this is the first time awards have been presented for Competition Economist of the Year.

Who's Who Legal named 33 Compass Lexecon experts and five additional academic affiliates from six different countries are included in its Who's Who of Competition Economists, more than any other firm in its global research. A full list of the Compass Lexecon experts included in the Who's Who of Competition Economists can be found here.

The Journal of Portfolio Management announced the recipients of the 16th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards recognizing the top papers from its 2014 publications. The awards are selected on the basis of voting by journal subscribers. 

FTI Consulting has maintained its top position on Global Arbitration Review’s 2015 International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration list. For 2015, FTI Consulting topped the list for the fifth consecutive year with 31 expert witnesses from the Company’s Economic Consulting segment, including its subsidiary Compass Lexecon, and from the firm’s Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment.

Global Competition Review awarded Compass Lexecon, a subsidiary of FTI Consulting four 2014 Global Competition Review Awards, which recognized the achievements of teams and individuals from private practice firms, corporate legal departments, economic consultancies, academic organizations and competition authorities in 2013.

FTI Consulting has maintained its top position on Global Arbitration Review's The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration 2014 list. FTI Consulting topped the list for the fourth consecutive year with 28 expert witnesses from the company's Economic Consulting segment, Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment and the FTI Consulting subsidiary Compass Lexecon making this elite list.

Compass Lexecon, for the eighth straight year, was named one of the best competition economics firms in the world by the Global Competition Review in its annual Economics 20 survey. This year, GCR concluded that Compass Lexecon "towers over its rivals" and "continues its impressive growth" with the most competition specialists.

FTI Consulting maintained its top position on Global Arbitration Review's The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration 2013 list. FTI Consulting topped the list for the third consecutive year with 22 expert witnesses from the company's Economic Consulting practice, Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice and the FTI Consulting subsidiary Compass Lexecon.

Global Competition Review announced its 2012 Awards in Washington, DC with Compass Lexecon sweeping every category it was nominated – six awards in total. By comparison, no other economic consulting firm won more than one award.

Compass Lexecon was once again named one of the world’s leading economics consultancies by the Global Competition Review in its annual Economics 20 survey. This year, GCR reported that “Compass Lexecon continues to dwarf its rivals with now more than double the headcount of its closest competitor, NERA.” Compass Lexecon topped the list with the most competition specialists—259 professionals in total.

Compass Lexecon is proud to announce that Janusz Ordover, one of our founders, Senior Consultants and a member of our Advisory Committee, was just named the "Economist of the Year" by the Global Competition Review.

We are pleased to announce that Compass Lexecon, for the seventh straight year, was named as one of the best competition economics firms in the world by the Global Competition Review in its annual Economics 20 survey. This year, GCR concluded that “Compass Lexecon reigns supreme once more with the largest number of competition specialists by a wide margin.”