Dr. Faten Sabry

Dr. Faten Sabry, APS is a managing director and chair of NERA Economic Consulting?s Global Securi-ties and Finance practice in New York and chairs its Bankruptcy Litigation Practice. She is also chair ofNERA?s Bankruptcy Litigation Practice and leads the Securities and Finance Practice?s subprime taskforce. Dr. Sabry has performed analyses involving issues of class certification, econometric modeling, liability, fraudulent conveyance, and damages in cases ranging from contract disputes to valuing a port-folio of mortgages. She also has assessed risk management models and examined the prudence of investments including hedging strategies. Dr. Sabry has consulted on the valuation of fixed income securities, derivatives, businesses and litigation settlements. In particular, she has consulted on complex securities including cash and synthetic CDOs, as well as asset- and mortgage-backed securities. In addition, she has evaluated rating agencies? models, loan loss prediction models and cash-flow models. Dr. Sabry has testified as an expert at trial in state and federal courts, as well as at a FINRA proceeding. Her product-liability work includes estimating the future liabilities in cases involving asbestos, silica, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, automobiles and construction products; analyzing liabilities related to environmental contamination in cases including the Met-Coil bankruptcy Trust and the future silica and asbestos liabilities for the Tyler Pipe/Swan Transportation bankruptcy trust; assessing recall costs and diminution of value for automobile and construction products; analyzing insurance allocation; applying statistical and content analyses to examine product identification; and analyzing class certification in consumer class actions, including actions related to consumer finance and credit as well as automobile recalls. Dr. Sabry?s research has been published in the Journal of Structured Finance, Journal of Investment Compliance, Journal of Alternative Investments, Business Economics, International Trade Journal and others. She has been accredited as a professional statistician by the American Statistics Association and is a member of the advisory board of VALCON. She also is a member of ABI and the AmericanFinance Association. Dr. Sabry received her B.A. magna cum laude and her M.A. from American University in Cairo, and her Ph.D. from Stanford Business School, where she was awarded the J.M. OlinGraduate Fellowship, the Graduate School of Business Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Fellowship.