C. Paul Wazzan

C. Paul Wazzan is an economist specializing in litigation matters and is a seasoned testifier having been deposed nearly 100 times and having testified at trial more than a dozen times.

Dr. Wazzan has been qualified as an expert in state, federal, bankruptcy, and claims courts, at the ITC, before the Copyright Royalty Judges, and has testified before legislative bodies. Dr. Wazzan focuses on providing financial, economic, and statistical expertise in the areas of complex damages, finance (e.g., valuation, securities fraud/10b5, option valuation, commodities price manipulation, solvency analysis), intellectual property (e.g., patent, trademark and copyright infringement, theft of trade secrets), class certification, labor and employment (e.g., class certification, disparate impact, wage and hour), and public policy (e.g., economic impact studies, effects of proposed legislation). He also specializes in large-scale (i.e., millions of records) data analytics (e.g., data acquisition, database design and development, statistical/econometric analysis).

Dr. Wazzan’s analyses have covered a wide range of industries, including, but not limited to, basic manufacturing (e.g., automotive, mining, oil and gas, steel, food processing and distribution), high-tech (e.g., aircraft and avionics, semiconductors, digital signal processors, computer peripherals), real estate (e.g., appropriate interest rates in bankruptcy settings, lending discrimination), financial services (e.g., banking, metals and other commodities trading, organized financial markets), retail (e.g., big box, specialty retailers, mall economics), and pharmaceuticals (e.g., pricing of proteins, drugs and the modeling of expected sales).

Dr. Wazzan has taught corporate finance and valuation at the graduate MBA level at USC and CSLA and his research has been published in peer-reviewed economics journals and law reviews. His testimony has been featured and relied upon in published judicial decisions.

Dr. Wazzan is President and CEO of Wazzan & Co. Investment LLC, a venture capital firm providing seed-level funding to firms specializing in semiconductor, optical networking, biomechanical, biomedical, and related technologies.