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GENERAL
BUSINESS CONSULTING and RESEARCH
Valuations
- Allocation of value among classes of assets or securities
- Mergers and acquisition services
- Buy-sell agreements
- Estate planning: minimizing gift, state, inheritance taxes
Health Care
- Health planning and Certificates of Need
- Health insurance rate making and benefits analysis
- Malpractice losses and insurance
- Antitrust and market entry issues
- Health insurance regulation
Real Estate
- Value properties, leases (computerized NPV and ROI analyses)
- Models: economics, demographics, planning
- Feasibility studies
- Financial structuring of projects
- Highest and best use analysis
Regulated Industries: Energy, Transportation, Utilities,
Telecommunications
- Strategy and testimony before Regulatory Hearings
- Planning for business response to proposed regulation
- Short run implications and direct industry regulation
- Long run effects and investment consequences of changes in
regulations and regulatory reform
- Rate studies: revenue requirements, cost allocations, rate
design by customer class; analysis of rate impacts
Market Research
- Competitive analysis and marketing strategies
- Analysis of market share and structure and competitive behavior
- Market surveys of trends and prosepcts for development
- Demand analysis and forecasts
- Demographics, income studies and spending patterns
- Advertising and competition
- Product characteristics, quality, liability, differentiation
- Distribution: vertical integration, franchising
Utilities
- Develop strategies to address the challenges of deregulation
- Implement new approaches to help justify or modify procedures
- Experience in oil, gas, electricity, renewable energy, water,
waste water, railroads and convergent technologies (broadcast
and telecommunications)
Water
- Valuation of pumping rights
- Valuing and pricing water and wastewater
- Rate studies: required rate of return, impacts
Financial Institutions
- Financial analyses and projections
- Securities and leasing
Public Policy Issues
- Comparable worth and other discrimination topics
- Rent control and fair rate of return issues
- Pricing, rate setting, effects of subsidies, trade restrictions
- Effects of legislative changes
Computer Services
- Software Piracy
- Negligence or Misrepresentation in system development or acquisition
- Customized data bases
Litigation Support Services
& Expert Testimony | General
Business Consulting and Research | Mediation | Transfer Pricing | Trial
Strategy & Jury Research |
Focus Groups & Consumer Research
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