Experts & Advisors
Irene Onofrei
Senior Director
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3320, 33rd Floor
Seattle, WA 98101
+1.206.442.3000 Main
+1.206.292.2586 Direct
Irene Onofrei is a Senior Director at Ankura based in Seattle. She has more than 18 years of experience assisting clients in contract disputes and damages analyses, as well as in healthcare reimbursement and litigation. Irene brings deep knowledge of the Medicaid reimbursement process to her work with clients, assisting them with in-depth reviews of claims and payment data in a fast-changing industry environment. She has also assisted clients facing damage claims over breach of contract, for which she has reviewed financial statements, contracts, and timekeeping records, and has provided litigation support such as creating data models for calculating damages, drafting expert reports, and preparing exhibits for trial.
Experience
Irene’s professional experience includes:
- Commercial Damages, Technology Sector: Analyzed a large dataset in a copyright infringement dispute involving the licensing of photographs through a new platform. Identified trends and patterns in the data that assisted counsel in reaching a settlement.
- Commercial Damages, Automobile Parts Manufacturer: Assisted in a contract dispute by analyzing business plans and financial data to calculate a damages estimate amount. Prepared exhibits to supplement analyses and organized all documents in the case.
- Commercial Damages, Municipal Government: Analyzed the financial statements of the owners of a professional basketball team as part of a contract dispute with the city. Conducted industry research, assisted with the drafting of an expert report, and prepared an expert witness for deposition.
- Commercial Damages, Retail Sector: Analyzed the dataset of an online retailer in a dispute involving the over-shipment of merchandise by a vendor. Calculated the impact of the excess inventory on the retailer’s profits and assisted in the drafting of the expert report.
- Commercial Damages, Oil & Gas: Prepared expert report exhibits and charts in a dispute between an oil & gas production company and its parent corporations.
- Commercial Damages, Healthcare: Analyzed and critiqued the components of a damages claim against a hospital network brought by a private physician practice.
- Healthcare/Medicaid Support, State Government: Provided ongoing assistance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with disproportionate share hospital (DSH) reporting requirements, cost coverage calculations, modeling of issues related to statewide assessments, monitoring of hospital case-mix indices, and the development of relative weight calculations.
- Healthcare Litigation, State Government: Assisted in a contract dispute with a municipality. Reviewed the damages model, including a detailed review of electronic and hardcopy time-keeping records, which resulted in successfully refuting elements of the opposing expert’s damages calculation.
- Forensic Accounting, Healthcare: Assisted in a review of contracts, invoices, and payments between parties on a government contract for COVID testing in the state of Hawaii.
- Education
- BA, Business Administration, University of Washington
- Languages
- Romanian
