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Stefanie Perrella, NERA Economic Consulting to Speak at KC’s Event on FIFRA: Finding a Balance Between the Incentive to Innovate with Research and Development Cost

New York, NY, August 28, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Coming aboard the panel of KC’s notable speakers for FIFRA: Finding a Balance between the Incentive to Innovate with Research and Development Costs Live Webcast is Stefanie Perrella, a Senior Analyst at NERA Economic Consulting. She will join other speakers for a 2-hour teleconference and webinar scheduled on November 2, 2010, Tuesday, at 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT.

About Stefanie Perrella

Stefanie M. Perrella is an economist in the Intellectual Property and Transfer Pricing Practice at NERA Economic Consulting in Washington, DC, a global company focused on applying economic, financial, and quantitative analyses in business, legal, and public policy contexts. She has extensive experience analyzing economic issues related to pricing, valuation, competition, innovation, and regulation in industries such as agricultural chemicals. Ms. Perrella has acted as a consulting economist in multiple FIFRA arbitrations. Additionally, she co-authored numerous valuation studies for tax, litigation, and business planning purposes and is experienced in valuing tangible and intangible property and preparing damage calculations across a variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, and automobiles. In her work, she has used accounting, financial, statistical, and econometric analyses in various business contexts (e.g., transfer pricing, sale or acquisition of intangible and tangible property, compliance with regulations, and strategic analyses) for companies. She also works on liability, damages, injunction, and other economic issues across industries in licensing/contract, antitrust, patent, and tax disputes. She is currently engaged in preparing a public policy study spanning issues such as valuation, regulation and innovation. She received B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in International Affairs with a concentration in Finance and M.A. degree in International Economic Relations from American University.

About NERA Economic Consulting

NERA Economic Consulting is an international firm of economists who understand how markets work. NERA economists provide analysis and advice to corporations, governments, law firms, regulatory agencies, trade associations, and international agencies. Our global team of more than 600 professionals operates in over 20 offices across North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

NERA provides practical economic advice related to highly complex business and legal issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation. Our more than 45 years of experience creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations reflects our specialization in industrial and financial economics. Because of our commitment to deliver unbiased findings, we are widely recognized for our independence. Our clients come to us expecting integrity and the unvarnished truth.

NERA Economic Consulting was founded in 1961 as National Economic Research Associates. It is a unit of the Oliver Wyman Group, an MMC company.

For more information about Stefanie Perrella and NERA Economic Consulting, please visit: http://www.nera.com

Event synopsis:

In this Knowledge Group Live webcast, a panel of distinguished professionals will examine the most critical issues which include:
- Determining the most reliable, comprehensive, and contemporaneous business records to use in
measuring the costs of generating a pesticide
- Overcoming hurdles of limited or incomplete records
- Assess the appropriate adjustments allowed under FIFRA Timing issues
- Allocating costs between parties
- Live interactive Q&A session

About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series

The Knowledge Congress is a series of live webcasts produced by The Knowledge Group, LLC, which examine trends, regulatory, and technology changes across a variety of industries. For more details, please visit: www.knowledgecongress.org.

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