CRA International, Inc. (CRA) operates as a global consulting company specializing in providing economic, financial and management consulting services.
The company advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guide corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. The company combines economic and financial analysis with expertise in litigation and regulatory support, business strategy and planning, mark...
CRA International, Inc. (CRA) operates as a global consulting company specializing in providing economic, financial and management consulting services.
The company advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guide corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. The company combines economic and financial analysis with expertise in litigation and regulatory support, business strategy and planning, market and demand forecasting, and policy analysis. The company is often retained in high-stakes matters, such as multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions, new product introductions, major strategy and capital investment decisions, and complex litigation, the outcomes of which often have significant consequences for the parties involved. These matters often require independent analysis, and as a result, the parties involved must rely on outside experts.
The company offers consulting services in two broad areas: litigation, regulatory, and financial consulting and management consulting. The company provides its consulting services primarily through its highly credentialed and experienced staff of employee consultants. Its employee consultants have backgrounds in a wide range of disciplines, including economics, business, corporate finance, materials sciences, accounting, and engineering. They combine outstanding intellectual acumen with practical experience and in-depth understanding of industries and markets. To enhance the expertise the company provides to its clients, it maintains close working relationships with a select group of renowned academic and industry non-employee experts.
The company’s business is diversified across multiple dimensions, including service offerings and vertical industry coverage, as well as areas of functional expertise, client base, and geography.
The company provides consulting services to corporate clients and attorneys in a wide range of litigation and regulatory proceedings, providing high-quality research and analysis, expert testimony, and comprehensive support in litigation and regulatory proceedings in all areas of finance, accounting, economics, insurance, and forensic accounting and investigations. The company also uses its expertise in economics, finance, and business to offer law firms, businesses, and government agencies services related to class certification, damages analysis, expert reports and testimony, regulatory analysis, antitrust and competition matters, strategy development, forensic accounting, cybersecurity, information security and privacy matters, labor and employment disputes, transfer pricing issues, valuation of tangible and intangible assets, intellectual property litigation and damages, risk management, and transaction support. In the company’s management consulting services, it uses its expertise in economics, finance, and business analysis to offer its clients such services as strategy development, performance improvement, corporate strategy and portfolio analysis, estimation of market demand, environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and sustainability strategy and analysis, design and implementation of auction and competitive bidding, new product pricing strategies, survey and market research, valuation of intellectual property and other assets, assessment of competitors' actions, and analysis of new sources of supply. The company’s analytical expertise in advanced economic and financial methods is complemented by its in-depth expertise in specific industries, including blockchain and cryptocurrency; communications and media; consumer products, health, and wellness; energy; entertainment and leisure; financial services; healthcare; life sciences; manufacturing and industrials; natural resources; retail and distribution; technology; and transportation.
The company has completed thousands of engagements for clients around the world, including domestic and foreign companies; federal, state, and local domestic government agencies; governments of foreign countries; public and private utilities; and national and international trade associations. It also works with many of the world's leading law firms. The company experiences a high level of repeat business.
The company delivers its services through an international network of coordinated offices.
The company works regularly with renowned professors at such institutions as the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, Texas A&M University, Yale University, Brigham Young University, Northwestern University, the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, McGill University, and other leading universities.
Services
The company offers consulting services in two broad areas: litigation, regulatory, and financial consulting and management consulting.
Litigation, Regulatory, and Financial Consulting
In the company’s litigation, regulatory, and financial consulting practices, it typically works closely with law firms on behalf of one or more companies involved in litigation or regulatory proceedings in such areas as antitrust, accounting and valuation disputes, damages, and labor and employment. Many of the lawsuits and regulatory proceedings in which it is involved are critical assignments with high-stakes outcomes, such as obtaining regulatory approval of a pending merger or analyzing possible damages awards in a class action case. The ability to formulate and effectively communicate powerful economic and financial arguments to courts and regulatory agencies is often critical to a successful outcome in litigation and regulatory proceedings. The company’s consultants combine analytical rigor with practical experience and in-depth understanding of industries and markets. The company’s analytical strength enables it to reach objective, factual conclusions that help its clients make important business and policy decisions and resolve critical disputes. The company’s consultants work with law firms, corporate counsel, and regulatory agencies to assist in developing the theory of the case and in preparing the testimony of expert witnesses from among its employees, its non-employee experts, and others in academia. In addition, its consultants provide general litigation support, including reviewing legal briefs and assisting in the appeals process.
The following is a summary of the areas of functional expertise that the company offers in litigation, regulatory, and financial consulting engagements. The company provides services, such as economic expertise, analyses, and expert testimony, in these areas:
Antitrust Litigation: Antitrust litigation, including economic analysis of the competitive effects of alleged collusion and cartels, monopolization, abuse of dominance, monopsony, and vertical restrictions.
Damages & Valuation: Disputes involving lost profits, breach of contract, purchase price, valuation, business interruption, product liability, and fraud, among other damages claims. Calculating damages, providing expert testimony, and critiquing opposing experts’ damages analyses in matters involving disputes in antitrust; intellectual property; securities and other financial market issues; insolvency; property values; contract; employment discrimination; product liability; environmental contamination; and purchase price. Supporting clients with broader corporate valuation services, providing pre-trial evaluations of damages claims and methodologies, and evaluating proposed settlements in class action and other cases.
Financial Accounting & Valuation: Commercial and shareholder disputes; corporate finance damages; corporate investigations; due diligence; financial accounting; valuation and litigation support and expert testimony, including both liability and damages.
Financial Economics: Matters pertaining to financial markets, including regulatory analyses and litigation support for financial institutions in areas of fair lending compliance, credit risk, credit scoring, consumer and mortgage lending, housing markets, international mortgage markets, and securitization.
Forensic & Cyber Investigations: Forensic accounting and analysis of complex accounting issues; fraud, corruption, bribery and embezzlement investigations; financial reporting misstatements, misconduct, and non-compliance allegations; white collar defense; cybercrime, data breach and theft of trade secrets investigations; computer and other digital forensic analyses; actionable business intelligence and reputational due diligence; and other independent professional services that help clients preserve their reputation and support their commitment to integrity.
Insurance Economics: Matters pertaining to advising insurers, regulators, and legislators with respect to management, insurance products, and litigation and regulation.
Intellectual Property: Matters pertaining to all types of intellectual property assets, including valuation, litigation, transaction and strategic advisory services, patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks, as well as economic damages in intellectual property litigation, valuations of intellectual property assets for strategic and regulatory purposes, and transactional advisory services for licensing and other intellectual property-rich transactions.
International Arbitration: International arbitration cases brought under bilateral investment treaties and arbitration clauses in contracts between firms. Assessing causation and quantifying damages using sophisticated modeling and analytical techniques and presenting findings to arbitration authorities. Analyses of valuations and estimates of damages associated with breaches of contract, national laws, and international treaties and the effects of market rules, processes, and contracts on prices and competition.
Labor & Employment: All facets of employment litigation, including equal employment opportunity claims under Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Providing expert witness and litigation support services, conducting proactive analyses of employment and contracting practices, monitoring consent decrees and settlement agreements, designing information systems to track relevant employment data, and analyzing liability and assessing damages under the Fair Labor Standards Act, California overtime laws, and state-specific wage and hour laws.
Mergers & Acquisitions: Assistance for clients in obtaining domestic and foreign regulatory approvals in proceedings before government agencies, such as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, the Merger Task Force at the European Commission, and the Canadian Competition Bureau. Analyses include simulating the effects of mergers on prices, estimating demand elasticities, designing and administering customer and consumer surveys, and studying possible acquisition-related synergies.
Regulatory Economics & Compliance: Regulatory proceedings and assisting clients in understanding and mitigating regulatory risks and exposures, preparing policy studies that help develop the basis for sound regulatory policy, drafting regulatory filings, and advising on regulations pertaining to environmental protection, employment, and health and safety.
Risk, Investigations & Analytics: Assistance for clients facing complex legal and business challenges using a multi-disciplinary approach to collect, process, and analyze information, including large and complex data sets from internal and external sources, electronic communications and transactions, insights from public records, social media, and human intelligence. Services include investigative due diligence; independent monitoring; anti-money laundering and financial crimes advisory; litigation support; corporate intelligence; fraud and corruption investigations; asset tracking; social media analytics; account remediation; compliance assessment; and systems investigations.
Securities & Financial Markets : Application of financial economics and accounting to complex litigation and business problems in such areas as securities litigation; securities markets and financial institutions; valuation and damages; and other financial litigation.
Transfer Pricing: All phases of the tax cycle, including planning, documentation, and tax valuation. Also includes audit defense and support in advanced pricing agreements, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation in proceedings involving the Internal Revenue Service, the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, state and municipal tax authorities, and foreign tax authorities.
Management Consulting
The company’s management consulting practices offer a unique mix of industry and functional expertise to help companies address and solve their strategic, organizational, and operational business problems. The company advises clients in a broad range of industries on how to succeed in uncertain, rapidly changing environments by generating growth, creating value, and enhancing shareholder wealth.
Additionally, the company challenges clients to develop fresh approaches by sharing industry insights, focusing on facts, and questioning tradition. It supports clients in business improvement implementation by setting priorities, focusing resources, and aligning operations, and the company gets results by helping clients make distinctive, substantial improvements in their organizations' performance.
The following is a summary of the areas of functional expertise that the company offers in management consulting.
Auctions & Competitive Bidding: Providing auction and market design, implementation, and monitoring services, as well as bidding support services, for businesses, industry organizations, and governments in various industries around the world, including commodities, energy and utilities, telecommunications, transportation, natural resources, and other industries.
Corporate & Business Strategy: Advising on business strategy, corporate revitalizations, and organizational effectiveness by bringing new ways of thinking to companies and new ways of working to develop better strategies over time and identifying the highest-value opportunities that address critical challenges and transform business. Advising chief executive officers and executive management teams on corporate and business unit strategy, market analysis, portfolio management, pricing strategy, and product positioning. Areas of expertise include strategy, execution, organic growth, growth through acquisition, productivity, risk management, leadership and organization, and managing for value.
Enterprise Risk Management: Advising large financial institutions and corporations in areas of governance and strategy, process analytics, and technology related to risk management.
Environmental & Energy Strategy: Advising companies on the following: corporate strategy to address risks and uncertainties surrounding environmental policy developments; business models that adapt to future environmental policy; investment decision-making processes that account for environmental policy uncertainty; environmental strategic compliance options with regulations/legislation; emissions trading planning surrounding cap-and-trade policies; identification of business opportunities that could relate to environmental trends; and the economic and business issues surrounding clean and renewable energy, enterprise and asset management, global gas and liquefied natural gas services, and regulation and litigation.
Intellectual Property & Technology Management: Advising top management, investors, and boards on technology strategy and planning, research and development management, commercialization, technology market evaluation, intellectual property management, and portfolio and resource management.
Organization & Performance Improvement: Advising corporate clients in areas of revenue growth drivers; operating margin drivers; asset efficiency drivers; key enablers; and performance management and metrics.
Transaction Advisory Services: Advising business leaders, including buyers and sellers, in the areas of due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and valuation.
Clients
The company has completed thousands of engagements for clients around the world, including domestic and foreign corporations; federal, state, and local domestic government agencies; governments of foreign countries; public and private utilities; accounting firms; and national and international trade associations. Frequently, the company works with major law firms who approach it on behalf of their clients. While the company has particular expertise in a number of industries, it provides services to a diverse group of clients in a broad range of industries.
Industry Expertise
By maintaining expertise in certain industries, the company provides clients practical advice tailored to their specific markets. While the company provides services to clients in a wide variety of industries, it has particular expertise in the following industries: blockchain and cryptocurrency; communications & media; consumer products, health, & wellness; energy; entertainment & leisure; financial services; healthcare; life sciences; manufacturing & industrials; natural resources; retail & distribution; technology; and transportation.
History
CRA International, Inc. was founded in 1965. The company was incorporated as a Massachusetts corporation in 1965.
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