New York City, New York— NERA is pleased to announce it has risen four places to rank 12th in the GAR 100 Expert Witness Power Index 2026. The Power Index ranks expert witness firms based on the volume and value of work, as well as the perceived quality of their personnel. In the write-up about NERA, GAR noted that we had the third-highest average claim value in this year's Power Index.
The NERA difference in international arbitration is that our experts bring a strong applied industry expertise and provide clients with a uniquely rigorous analytical approach and an unwavering commitment to independent and unbiased expert opinions. Our experts provide authoritative, independent economic analysis, valuation opinions, causation determinations, damages assessments, regulatory opinions, expert reports, and testimony.
NERA's broad range of industry expertise includes energy, transport, mining, infrastructure, telecoms, electronics, technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, banking, financial services and securities, intellectual property, and transfer pricing. Our multidimensional expertise, including market and sector experience, coupled with best-in-class financial and economic damages analysis, enables NERA experts to advise on issues relating to economic causation, mitigation, restitution, and reparation, as well as on valuation and quantum/economic damages issues.
Our consultants draw on decades of experience, combined with specialized knowledge and deep expertise in regulated industries and competitive markets. NERA economists have provided these services in major arbitration venues around the world, including the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
NERA's experts are retained in international disputes related to commercial agreements and bilateral investment treaties, whereby companies that are foreign investors sue a government of a country regarding the foreign direct investment.
NERA's experts regularly testify in arbitration proceedings under all major institutional and procedural rules, including:
- International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
- London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC)
- International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
- Comisión Interamericana de Arbitraje Comercial (CIAC)
- Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
- United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
- Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA)
- American Arbitration Association (AAA)
- Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)
- Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)