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We assist electric utilities, deregulated power producers, customers, regulators, and policy makers with planning, regulation, and litigation support. Our team offers a range of operational and financial tools and models for simulation, forecasting, and evaluating market structure. We testify before regulatory agencies, courts, and arbitration panels. Our experience spans electricity markets worldwide and reflects our depth in the global energy sector.
We are called upon to provide expert testimony and economic analyses in litigation and regulatory matters concerning capital requirements, due diligence, structured finance, risk management, asset valuation, pricing of services, profitability, and the cost of capital. Our clients include commercial banks, savings and loans, insurance companies, broker-dealers, investment banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, and finance companies.
Our economic consultants provide gas market participants worldwide with expert testimony and advice in regulatory and legal disputes over pricing, prudence and cost recovery, access, and contract performance. We analyze the competitiveness of gas production, midstream markets, transportation and storage, and end-use markets in the context of restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and government inquiries. We also analyze and evaluate the future of global LNG markets, and we offer strategic advice on service design and pricing, asset valuation, and risk management.
Our experience in the crude oil and petroleum products markets spans the range of economic, financial, and regulatory issues central to the markets’ current state and ongoing development. Our work encompasses exploration and production, marine and pipeline transportation, storage, refining, and wholesale and retail distribution. We have experience in oil and gas asset valuation, contract performance, corporate strategy and risk assessments, financial modeling, market power reviews, reliability and damages evaluations, and royalty disputes.
 
We provide consulting and expert testimony, drawing on a combination of financial and economic analysis, sensitivity to underlying medicine and science, and practical experience in medical technology markets, industries, and regulations. We assist clients in strategic planning and in the valuation of damages in litigation. Our expertise in the pharma, medical device, and biotech industries includes work in contract disputes, clinical development, insurance valuation, market research, product pricing and price-related litigation, regulation, and reimbursement.
Our experts bring financial, regulatory, strategic, and economic analysis to complex matters in telecommunications and media. We apply economic tools to topics such as the valuation of spectrum, the assessment of damages in litigation, the pricing of network access and interconnection, and the analysis of market conditions, competition, pricing, costs, and intellectual property. We address key issues in fixed line and wireless communications, mobile satellite services, and cable and satellite television.
We advise transport companies and operators, international governments, and regulatory agencies on matters including restructuring, regulatory reform, public policy, and strategy. We provide economic analysis and expert testimony in major litigation in the aerospace, auto, aviation, postal, railroad, and shipping industries. Our staff has published widely in this area and has presented at international transportation conferences around the world.