Summary
Kayuna Fukushima is a Principal in Bates White’s Antitrust and Competition Practice. She has significant experience assessing competition, market definition, and market power in a wide range of industries, including technology, online retail, digital platform, energy, oil and gas, media, and healthcare. Dr. Fukushima has performed a broad range of data-intensive econometric and statistical analyses in support of expert economic testimony, including estimating the impact of mergers (horizontal and vertical) and examining the effects of firm anticompetitive conduct (e.g., exclusionary conduct in In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation, most favored nation provisions in Difederico v. Amazon, and self-preferencing by a platform owner), using difference-in-difference estimation, structural demand estimation, damage estimation, and other economic/statistical techniques.
As part of work involving Big Tech antitrust litigation, Dr. Fukushima has conducted analysis using a variety of large, terabyte-sized data sets and collaborated with data engineers on many cases. As a co-chair of the firm’s Data Science Committee, she supports the firm’s initiative to incorporate data science tools across practices.
Her academic work has been published in Applied Economics and European Economic Review.
Education
PhD, Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA, Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan
BS, Economics, University of Keio, Japan
SPOTLIGHT
Supported expert Doug Bernheim in Epic Games v. Google, Epic’s antitrust litigation related to Google’s app store practices. A jury returned a verdict in favor of Epic on all counts and all claims. Read more.
