Ariel Farkas Hilarides

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ARIEL FARKAS HILARIDES

I am a senior director in Kroll\'s Expert Services practice, leveraging more than 10 years of experience in providing financial and economic analyses and litigation consulting services. My experience includes work in the financial services, securities, regulatory, retail, payments, complex assets, healthcare and pharmaceutical, automotive, consumer goods, and oil and gas industries.My areas of expertise include antitrust and economic damages, event study analyses in shareholder class actions, and statistical analysis and complex damages. I have advised clients and managed teams in several areas, including complex financial valuation and damages analysis, statistical and econometric analysis, review and analysis of big data, forensic accounting, industry and market analysis, lost profits analysis, financial fraud investigations, complex asset and financial instrument valuation and forecasting, and various other investigation engagements.Representative Engagements Include-Leading various event study engagements, where I analyzed the share price inflation and associated damages resulting from triggers such as fraud, accounting misstatements, or false allegations. My experience in event study cases spans across the automotive, retail, healthcare and pharmaceutical, utilities, and gambling and gaming industries, both within the U.S. and internationally-Managing a multidisciplinary team of experts in data analytics, securities trading, and statistical analysis in an engagement involving the collapse of a multibillion-dollar investment fund-Leading a landmark U.S. antitrust case over the past seven years with a multibillion-dollar damages claim on behalf of some of the largest retailers in the country against two major payments industry participants. For this engagement, I collected and analyzed large amounts of data and built complex models in order to calculate the damages incurred by each of the retail plaintiffs in a but-for world-Performing statistical analyses in order to sample, review, and extrapolate healthcare overcharge claims and calculate resulting damages-Managing various engagements advising counsel for trustees of residential mortgage-backed securities in damages litigation brought by investors, which included leading teams investigating hundreds of thousands of loans to ensure that they met underwriting guidelines at the time of origination to assess resulting damages.