William Downs is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura based in Washington, DC. He has 20 years of experience creating expert reports, developing complex data analytics, and preparing damages analyses for litigation matters and settlement negotiations. He specializes in healthcare, pharmacy, managed care, life sciences, and other insurance disputes, providing clients and their counsel with unique and valuable insights using complex data to shape litigation strategy, prepare expert testimony, quantify risk, and calculate exposure. Areas of Expertise• Healthcare and Managed Care Disputes: Assists clients and counsel on matters involving healthcare payors and healthcare providers regarding out-of-network pricing, contract disputes, statistical analysis of claim payments, stop loss calculations, billing fraud, clinical coding disputes, mental health parity, prompt payment disputes, lab processing, and consumer class actions. • Pharmacy Disputes: Assists clients and counsel on matters involving usual and customary pricing disputes, government investigations into pharmacies, class actions, red flag analysis, prescribing patterns for regulatory disputes, and other complex assessments of pharmacy transaction data. • Life Science Disputes: Assists clients and counsel with medical device and pharmaceutical product liability litigation as well as billing and clinical coding disputes between payors and providers involving medical devices. • Commercial Insurance Disputes: Assists policyholders, insurers, corporations and their counsel with insurance allocations, the estimation of mass torts and product liabilities, insurance coverage analysis, retrospective premium disputes, and the development and implementation of insurance settlements and coverage in place agreements. These engagements have involved liability related to medical devices, pharmaceutical products, abuse, environmental pollution, PFAS, welding rods, and construction defects.