WHO WE ARE

Criterion Economics was founded by experienced scholars and consultants from the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and internationally recognized consulting firms. Criterion Economics provides expert analysis for governments and for business clients for whom complex economic litigation, regulation, or legislation has a critical and recurring influence on the formulation of corporate strategy. Criterion Economics has earned a reputation for sophistication in antitrust, regulatory, and intellectual property matters concerning telecommunications and other network industries.

In the past four years, Criterion has provided regulatory or litigation consulting to Ambase Corp., AT&T, ATCO Gas, Baltimore Orioles, Bank of America, Bell Canada, BellSouth, the Broadband Roundtable (Alcatel, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, France Telecom, Siemens, Telefónica de España, and Telecom Italia), Computers & Communications Industry Association, Corning, Coventry First Financial, CTIA-The Wireless Association, eircom, Equities First Holdings, Exelon, Fannie Mae, Fidelity Investments, General Motors, InterActive, Lorillard Tobacco Company, National Association of Broadcasters, National Association of Realtors, Newspaper Association of America, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, Portugal Telecom, Qualcomm, Qwest Communications, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, SBC, Telmex, Telus Corp., UBS Securities, United Parcel Service, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, VeriSign Inc., Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, and the Walt Disney Corporation. In addition, Criterion has provided strategic consulting to Access Spectrum, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Florida Department of Transportation, Electricite de France, National Basketball Association, One2One Communications, PSEG Power, and Stream Intelligent Networks.

Criterion has also served clients in all of the large telecommunications mergers reported in the business press; in the government's Microsoft antitrust case; in the auction of third-generation wireless spectrum in Germany; in the design of tax legislation to encourage investment in digital infrastructure; in a takings case of first impression involving the mandatory unbundling of telecommunications networks; and in a European Commission investigation of alleged predation by a public enterprise.

Representative law firms with which Criterion Economics has worked include Allen & Overy; Arnold & Porter; Baker Botts; Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells; Covington & Burling; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Jones Day; Kirkland & Ellis; Howrey Simon Arnold & White; Latham & Watkins; Mayer, Brown & Platt; Munger Tolles & Olson; O'Melveny & Myers; Pillsbury Winthrop; Shearman & Sterling; Sullivan & Cromwell; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Wiley, Rein & Fielding; and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.