Marlene Haas is a financial economist with expertise in financial markets and financial institutions. Dr. Haas specializes in topics related to trading in financial markets and valuation. She has extensive experience with matters involving market manipulation and disruptive trading allegations, digital asset markets, commercial uses for FinTech, cash and derivative markets, and valuation of private and public companies.
In both the U.S. and Europe, Dr. Haas consults with clients on complex financial economics issues arising in all stages of litigation, including at the class certification and merits stages. She also works on internal and regulatory investigations.
Dr. Haas’s experience spans various financial markets (both over-the-counter [OTC] and public markets) and industries, with an emphasis on banking, broker-dealers, hedge funds, market makers, and individuals involved in regulatory investigations and private litigation. She has presented to regulatory agencies and provided research support for studies connected to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rulemaking process.
Dr. Haas’s research on market microstructure topics has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, the Journal of Financial Markets, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Compliance, the World Financial Review, and Compliance Monitor.
Her experience includes:
Trading in financial markets
- Antitrust issues in foreign exchange (FX) and commodity futures markets
- Benchmark manipulation allegations in precious metals and financial and energy products
- Best execution and payment for order flow analyses
- Evaluating damages and settlement estimates
- Front-running and pre-hedging practices in global FX markets
- Alleged price manipulation in U.S. and European commodity futures markets, FX, cryptocurrency, and government bond markets
- Spoofing, pre-hedging, and other alleged disruptive trading conduct in U.S. and European equity, commodity and financial futures, and FX markets
- Trading in Volatility Index (VIX)-related products and markets
Digital assets, blockchain, and FinTech
- Analysis of manipulative trading on cryptocurrency exchanges and blockchains
- Blockchain technology, decentralized finance (DeFi), and smart contract design
- Forensic analyses of digital asset transactions
- Commercial uses of FinTech
- Crypto token categorization
- Reserve funding
Valuation
- Valuing public and private companies
- Calculating damages in contractual disputes
- Analyzing financial claims in private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds
- Consulting on matters related to PE and VC industry structure and practices
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