Dr. Faten Sabry

Dr. Faten Sabry, APS is a senior managing director of Compass Lexecon in New York and provides economic consulting and expert testimony in securities, bankruptcy and complex damages. She has testified as an expert at trial in state and federal courts, the UK High Court, Canadian courts and FINRA proceedings. 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 portfolio of mortgages. She also has assessed risk-management models and examined the prudence of investments including hedging strategies. Dr. Sabry has also consulted on the valuation of fixed-income securities, crypto assets, derivatives, businesses and litigation settlements. She also 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’s product-liability work includes estimating the future liabilities in cases involving opioids, 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 servicing loans, consumer finance, and credit as well as automobile recalls. She is the author of various articles on the economics of subprime lending, the credit crisis, the impact of securitization on the cost of credit and liquidity, econometric analysis of mutual funds’ advisory fees, claiming behavior, and determinants of anti-dumping protection. Her research has been published in the Journal of Structured Finance, Journal of Fixed Income, Journal of Investment Compliance, Journal of Alternative Investments, Business Economics, International Trade Journal and others. Dr. Sabry is the lead author of “Residential Mortgage Defaults, Foreclosures, and Modifications” in The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities (Frank J. Fabozzi, ed. 2016), as well as an econometric study on the impact of securitization before and after the credit crisis for the American Securitization Forum. She is a member of the American Finance Association and ABI. Before joining Compass Lexecon, Dr. Sabry was a managing director and chair of the Global Securities and Finance Practice at NERA Economic Consulting, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, and an assistant professor of economics at the American University in Cairo, where she taught graduate and undergraduate economic courses. She 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. Olin Graduate Fellowship, the Graduate School of Business Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Fellowship.