Andria van der Merwe

Biography

Dr. van der Merwe is Managing Director at BRG where she specializes in securities litigation, antitrust and competition, and complex financial market disputes. She has testified in matters involving financial derivatives, hedging strategies and cryptocurrencies.

She has led engagements involving allegations of market manipulation, anticompetitive conduct, collusion and the classification of digital assets under federal and state securities laws.  Her work applies economic, statistical, and econometric analyses to assess liability, market efficiency, price impact, class certification, and damages in complex litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations.

Prior to joining BRG, Dr. van der Merwe was an executive vice president at a leading economic consulting firm. Before entering the consulting field, she served as a Director of Portfolio Management at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.

Dr. van der Merwe's research has been published in several internationally renowned journals on topics including complex mathematical algorithms to extract information from digital signatures and economic analysis of cryptocurrency.  She has presented to the American Bar Association, Swiss Finance Institute, 100 Women in Hedge Funds, and other industry organizations nationally and internationally.

As an author, Dr. van der Merwe wrote Market Liquidity Risk: Implications for Asset Pricing, Risk Management and Financial Regulation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and co-authored Credit Default Swaps: Mechanics and Empirical Evidence on Benefits, Costs, and Inter-Market Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). 

Academic Areas

• Finance