Pavel Darling

Education
M.B.A., MIT Sloan School of Management; B.A., economics, Middlebury College
Summary of Experience
Mr. Darling consults to clients and provides expert testimony to address litigation, strategy, regulatory, and policy questions in a wide range of antitrust and competition, class certification, health care, energy, and environmental matters. He has submitted and supported expert testimony before US district and appellate courts, state utility commissions, siting boards, and federal agencies. He has also assisted clients with responses to government investigations and presented findings before US Attorneys’ Offices, state attorneys general, and the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
In the areas of health care and antitrust, Mr. Darling has extensive experience supporting clients on issues related to discovery and data production, class certification, patent infringement, market definition and market power, and competitive effects in pharmaceutical and life sciences matters involving patent infringement issues, reverse payment settlements, and product hop allegations. He has also designed and implemented customized suspicious order monitoring (SOM) and loss prevention programs for controlled substances, and has experience in False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute litigation cases, including analyses of causation and damages calculations.
Mr. Darling is also an expert on electricity, oil, and natural gas pricing, markets, and infrastructure. His consulting work on behalf of utilities, state and regional organizations, and global companies includes projects related to cost/benefit analyses of new plant construction and retirements; ratepayer and bill impacts; environmental effects of emissions and pollution controls; economic impacts of energy projects, mergers, and policies; natural gas, biomass, and other market studies; and climate change matters including decarbonization policy proposals and quantification of the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. He has conducted and overseen numerous economic and bill impact assessments in support of projects and policy proposals, ranging from new power plants and transportation facilities to electric, petroleum, and natural gas transmission infrastructure.
Provided Expert Testimony
Additional Cases
- Analysis of Economic Feasibility of Proposed Coal Plant
- Assessing Market Needs to Evaluate Natural Gas Pipeline Development
- Assessing the Environmental Impact of the Siting of a Natural Gas Power Plant
- Assessing Transmission-for-Renewables Projects
- Conducting a Review of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s Impact on Consumer Electricity Bills
- Controlled Substance Monitoring and Effective Controls Against Diversion: Investigations and Settlements
- Controlled Substance Suspicious Order Monitoring Modeling
- Economic Impact Reporting for Exelon Corporation
- In re: HIV Antitrust Litigation
- In re: The Application of Transource Maryland LLC for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity
- In the Matter of Skipjack Offshore Energy, LLC’s Qualified Offshore Wind Project's Compliance with Conditions Approved in 2017
- Merger of AltaGas Ltd. and WGL Holdings, Inc.
- Pharmaceutical Off-Label Promotion & Kickbacks Settlements
- State of North Carolina, ex rel. Roy Cooper, Attorney General, v. Tennessee Valley Authority
- The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States
- Todd J. Mortier v. LivaNova USA, Inc.
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Economic Impact of a Clean Electricity Payment Program
White Paper, 2021
2021Darling P, Hibbard P, Daniels L
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An Expanding Carbon Cap-and-trade Regime? A Decade of Experience with RGGI Charts a Path Forward
The Electricity Journal, June 2018
2018Hibbard P, Tierney S, Darling P, Cullinan S
Energy, Climate & Natural Resources, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) -
The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States: Review of RGGI’s Third Three-Year Compliance Period (2015-2017)
White Paper, April 2018
2018Darling P, Hibbard P, Tierney S
Energy, Climate & Natural Resources, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) -
The Proposed Northern Pass Transmission Project: Assessing its impacts on New Hampshire
White Paper, February 2017
Energy, Climate & Natural Resources
2017 -
Viewing Recent Opioid Regulations In Context
Law360, April 1, 2016
2016Pike C, Weinstein K, Darling P, Greenberg P
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Project Vigilance: Functional Feasibility Study for the Installation of Ambri Energy Storage Batteries at Joint Base Cape Cod
Functional Feasibility Study, February 2014
2014Hibbard P, Carpenter S, Darling P, Reilly M, Tierney S
Energy, Climate & Natural Resources, Strategy, Policy & Analytics -
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Demand Response in Capacity Markets: Reliability, Dispatch and Emission Outcomes
Electricity Journal, November 2012, Vol. 25, Issue 9
Energy, Climate & Natural Resources, Strategy, Policy & Analytics
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The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States
White Paper, November 2011
2011Hibbard P, Tierney S, Okie A, Darling P
Data Science & Statistical Modeling, Energy, Climate & Natural Resources, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG), Strategy, Policy & Analytics -
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June 21, 2022
Vice President Pavel Darling to Join The Knowledge Group Webcast on Antitrust Issues in the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Industries
Event: Navigating Antitrust Issues in the Pharmaceutical and Life Science Industries: Key Trends and Challenges Explored
Host: The Knowledge Group
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August 8, 2023
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August 3, 2023
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June 27, 2023

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AG Feature Priming the Pump for Economic Recovery by Investing in Advanced Energy
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AG Feature Assessing Market Needs to Evaluate Natural Gas Pipeline Development
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Related Practice Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
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AG Feature Performance and Economic Analyses to Support the Siting Approval of a New Natural Gas Peaker Plant
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AG Feature What’s in the Record? Implications of the Asacol Case for Pharmaceutical Class Actions
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Health Care Bulletin Viewing Recent Opioid Regulations in Context
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Case OutcomeAssessing Transmission-for-Renewables Projects
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AG Feature Assessing the EPA’s Clean Power Plan
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Case OutcomeConducting a Review of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s Impact on Consumer Electricity Bills