CRA's experts bring vast expertise and credentials to blockchain, cryptocurrency & digital assets, whether in support of litigation, business processes, or investigations. Blockchain technology and its applications are disrupting established industries while simultaneously creating new ones, and the broad accessibility of cryptocurrency and other digital assets has increased their exposure to legal controversy as regulations governing digital asset markets evolve. CRA helps preserve, analyze, enrich, and triangulate blockchain-level transaction data, combining in-depth understanding of the rapidly changing regulatory expectations with proven tools and techniques to summarize and visually analyze transactions. The firm has decades of experience with high-profile, complex financial litigation and regulatory matters and deep in-house expertise in cryptocurrencies, securities, finance, and consumer litigation.

Expert guidance to navigate any business, litigation, and regulatory challenges in the complex, evolving telecommunications and media industries, marked by rapid technological innovation and ever-changing regulatory and business environments. Support spans business disputes; class actions; breach of contract including intercarrier compensation issues; regulatory challenges including pricing analysis; competition analysis and deregulation; economic cost analysis; intellectual property infringement; and complex antitrust matters and merger review. Clients include large and small telecommunications carriers; internet service providers; television broadcasters and networks; cable operators and program services; manufacturers of network equipment; manufacturers of handsets and other consumer premise equipment; their relevant regulatory agencies; advertisers; publishers and printers; and digital media providers. CRA also provides reports and testimony to state regulatory agencies, the Federal Communications Commission, and other federal and international regulatory agencies on matters including the effects of proposed rulemakings on competition, market definition and analysis, prices, costs, consumer welfare, innovation, and rate setting.

Economic, financial, competitive, and strategic analyses for manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of consumer products and services, with economic and investigative expertise and deep factual understanding of consumer markets allowing state-of-the-art analysis on mergers and antitrust, brand valuation, breach of contract, and infringement of patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks. CRA also works with clients to devise and implement strategies that enable value growth despite changing and challenging circumstances. Clients include manufacturers of consumer packaged goods and durables, retailers, investment companies, and pharmaceutical and OTC multinationals. CRA delivers fact-based and experience-driven insight on how to use strategic, operating, organizational, and financing levers in tight, integrated combination to create value.

Global strategic, economic, commercial, and regulatory advice on today's energy ecosystem and the energy transition, utilizing evidence-based research, rigorous analysis, and first-hand industry expertise to create strategies, manage risk and uncertainty, and unlock value. Clients are advised on transactions, and operating models are transformed to help maximize the value of their assets. Expert witness support is provided in civil litigation, regulatory matters, and international arbitration. CRA's energy practice spans the full spectrum of the sector—from conventional oil and gas to power and utilities and the transition to renewables and clean energy.

CRA blends industry experience with economic and analytical expertise—a combination that enables help to investors, content providers, distributors, and talent to resolve disputes and make better informed decisions. Experts provide independent, rigorous analyses in litigation, business transactions, investigations, and regulatory proceedings, and their comprehensive experience spans all facets of the industry, including sports, film, broadcast, and live entertainment. Engagements cover antitrust class actions, intellectual property matters, damages quantification, and regulatory proceedings across entertainment, sports, media, hospitality, and leisure—drawing on deep sector knowledge to serve clients ranging from major studios and sports franchises to travel and leisure companies.

Involved in many of the largest and most prominent financial disputes over the last decade, CRA serves retail, commercial and wholesale banks, insurers, payments companies, fintech companies, and wealth and asset managers and their counsel with high quality research and analysis, expert testimony, and comprehensive support in litigation and regulatory proceedings. Experts have backgrounds in finance and accounting and work closely with leading academics from top-tier research institutions, including former members of the SEC, CFTC, DOJ, and European Commission. CRA and its subsidiary Marakon also help financial institutions effectively navigate and respond to the new regulatory, competitive, and customer landscape in ways that maximize value creation. Experience in consumer finance extends to all areas of consumer credit analytics, with particular expertise in fair lending, non-discrimination, and unfair practices regulatory and litigation matters.

Broad and deep experience in the healthcare sector including hospitals, physician practices, health insurance and health benefit plans, ACOs, PBMs, wholesalers, pharmacies, pharmaceuticals and biologicals, medical devices, clinical laboratories, dialysis facilities, ambulance transport, nursing homes, and home healthcare. CRA's experts deliver economic, financial, and strategic analyses to support clients across the full continuum of care. Engagements span litigation support, damages quantification, breach of contract matters, class action defense, regulatory proceedings, and strategic advisory—drawing on rigorous analytic techniques and decades of hands-on experience in one of the economy's most complex and regulated sectors.

For more than 25 years, life science companies, law firms, and regulatory agencies around the globe have turned to CRA's life sciences consultants when they need clarity and solutions to the industry's most complex issues. Clients value deep industry knowledge, rigorous analytic techniques, and decades of hands-on experience spanning thousands of successful engagements. Capabilities span Corporate, Portfolio & Brand Strategy; Pricing & Market Access; Policy; Litigation; Rare Disease; Oncology; Cell & Gene Therapy; Advanced Analytics; Medical Affairs; and Digital Therapeutics (DTx)—covering the full breadth of pharmaceutical, biotech, and life sciences challenges.

Antitrust, economic, financial, and strategic analyses for manufacturing and industrial companies including paper and packaging manufacturing, compressor manufacturing, computer hardware manufacturing, battery manufacturing, cement producers, oil refineries, and chemicals. CRA and its subsidiary Marakon help companies address their highest value strategic and organizational issues, and help them turn their strategies into industry-leading performance. Industrial companies are facing major changes with many developed markets experiencing slow growth and stagnant margins, and demand and production shifting to developing countries where profitable growth has proven elusive. CRA's deep understanding of chemicals, industrials, and related sectors allows experts to quickly identify business issues and provide guidance on M&A strategy, integration, performance turnarounds, and growth.

At the forefront of applying economic principles and analysis to the natural resources sector, CRA's experts perform financial and economic analyses spanning metals and mining, forest products, and natural resource extraction. Engagements include treaty arbitration, merger clearance, and antitrust matters involving national and international regulators. CRA has deep expertise in the paper, forest product, and packaging industries, advising clients on prospective mergers and acquisitions and helping secure antitrust clearance from US, Canadian, and European regulators for transactions involving printing and specialty papers, containerboard and corrugated boxes, food packaging materials, wood pulp, plywood and lumber, and many others.

CRA assists manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers in assessing a myriad of compliance issues including competitive, financial, fraud, intellectual property, regulatory, and valuation matters. The integrated team of experts has long applied leading-edge theories and analyses in many different types of retail markets, including department stores, mass merchandisers, drug stores, and supermarkets, providing customized solutions in a constantly evolving sector. Expertise and deep factual understanding of retailing allow CRA to apply state-of-the-art analysis to product and geographic market definition, entry conditions, and synergies resulting from retail consolidation. CRA has been retained by private parties and government agencies to provide expert reports, deposition, and trial testimony in many matters involving retail markets.

Economic, financial, competitive, investigative, and strategic analyses to computer hardware and software firms and government agencies, with multidisciplinary expertise and deep factual understanding of the technology industry allowing CRA to apply state-of-the-art analysis to issues in the US, EU, and other regions of the world. CRA applies its substantial economic and computer industry expertise in matters involving virtually all aspects of the industry. Clients include many of the world's largest, best-known technology firms, as well as smaller, specialty suppliers. Engagements span antitrust and competition matters, intellectual property disputes, regulatory proceedings, and strategic advisory—addressing challenges across software, hardware, semiconductors, and IT services.

A long-time leader and innovator in the application of economic tools and concepts to the solution of complex problems in the transportation sector, CRA serves clients across airlines, railways, trucking, and logistics. Engagements include Final Offer Arbitration proceedings between railways and shippers over rates or conditions of service, as well as a broad range of antitrust, regulatory, and damages matters. CRA's transportation experts bring deep sector knowledge to litigation support, strategic advisory, and regulatory proceedings, advising on competition analysis, market definition, merger review, and economic impact assessments across all major transportation modes.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of global technological advancements, having tremendous impact reshaping traditional industries, and giving rise to new and unique ways of thinking, creating, and working. The widespread integration of AI technology has led to new and unforeseen heightened financial, legal, and strategic considerations, as the regulatory landscape surrounding AI evolves. CRA's multidisciplinary team of experts are uniquely qualified in navigating this evolving landscape through their work inside and outside the courtroom, approaching it as business strategists, economic experts, and investigators — spanning applications across labor and employment, life sciences, energy, and financial services.

CRA's consultants provide advanced analytics expertise, big data solutions, and advisory capabilities to assist organizations in addressing complex litigation and mergers & acquisitions, and help companies cultivate strategies to achieve commercial and operational goals. Combining sophisticated technical toolkits with strong business acumen, CRA reviews structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data — including reactive lookback reviews, automation of descriptive dashboards and visualizations, and pattern detection through machine learning.

CRA's CEO advisory service, together with subsidiary Marakon, has been partnering with CEOs and their leadership teams for over 40 years to create some of the world's most valued enterprises. With strategic management of time, capital, and talent at its core, CRA collaborates with clients to create enterprise-wide value strategies, provide solutions for key events such as mergers and acquisitions, and put in place decision-making processes to capture performance opportunities — typical engagements include portfolio value transformation, organic growth, M&A, and organizational alignment.

CRA professionals have provided economic advice and testimony in numerous high-stakes class action cases, spanning antitrust, consumer finance, and mortgage lending and servicing matters. Expertise covers class certification, liability, damages, and statistical sampling, drawing on deep understanding of consumer finance and housing markets combined with rigorous data and economic analysis.

With proven skills in complex cases and exceptional strength in analytics, CRA consultants provide extensive guidance on domestic and international matters involving commercial damages and disputes. This includes deep experience in dispute resolution and international arbitration, spanning litigation as well as commercial and investment treaty claims, with quantum support covering lost profits, cost assessments, forensic analyses, and lost value.

CRA's eDiscovery experts assist companies and their counsel in data preservation, collection, analysis, reporting, and delivery. As part of the Forensic Services Practice's state-of-the-art digital forensics and cyber incident response lab (ISO 27001:2013 certified), CRA delivers end-to-end discovery services supporting litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects.

Clear-cut analysis of the issues arising in horizontal and vertical mergers and acquisitions is a CRA specialty. CRA's in-house economists and academic affiliates are widely recognized for developing new analytical tools and methods, having conducted merger reviews across most major industries and assisted clients in M&A transactions worldwide, including post-acquisition disputes, appraisal actions, and merger financial litigation.

Debate around the nature and content of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies and disclosures continues to accelerate, with a resultant evolution in associated standards and regulations. CRA works with clients to develop sustainability-led strategies, build new capabilities, execute operational plans, and improve ESG performance — supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy across energy, industrial, and other sectors.

Economic analysis and expert testimony supporting clients in antitrust investigations, merger reviews, and competition regulatory proceedings globally. Retained by Cisco to provide economic analyses for a $28B acquisition across global jurisdictions; antitrust expert representation in landmark cases including U.S. v. IBM and U.S. v. Microsoft.

Cybersecurity strategy, incident response advisory, privacy assessments, and expert support for litigation and regulatory matters involving information security. Transformed endpoint visibility and cyber threat management for a PE-backed financial services company following a ransomware attack

Forensic accounting, fraud investigations, embezzlement inquiries, and white-collar defense support for law firms, corporations, and government agencies. ISO 27001:2013 certified practice recognized by Global Investigations Review, including embezzlement cases exceeding $10M and support for wire fraud prosecutions.

Cross-border investigations, compliance risk due diligence, market intelligence, and risk analytics for corporations, law firms, and government agencies. Recognized by Global Investigations Review as a leading investigations consultancy; conducts compliance risk due diligence and market intelligence for multinational enterprises navigating complex jurisdictional risk environments.

Economic analysis, damages quantification, and expert testimony in patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright disputes. Provides survey and market research services including Lanham Act claims, likelihood of confusion analyses, conjoint analysis, and ITC investigation support across patent and IP litigation matters.

Economic and financial analysis supporting parties in international arbitration proceedings across commercial and investment treaty disputes. Delivers economic and investigative analysis on complex cross-border arbitration matters, with regional expertise in dispute resolution.

In-depth analysis, expert reports, testimony, and advisory services in complex labor and employment disputes, including misclassification, pay equity, and wage discrimination matters. Engaged by a leading car rental company in high-stakes employment misclassification disputes; partnered with research institutions on compensation equity reviews.

Strategy development, corporate portfolio analysis, performance improvement, market demand estimation, and ESG strategy for corporations seeking to address critical business challenges. Marakon subsidiary assists financial institutions with capital allocation, inorganic strategy, and organizational structure optimization across energy, life sciences, and industrial sectors.

Design, implementation, and analysis of surveys for litigation, competition proceedings, and market research, including conjoint analysis and consumer perception studies. Provides Lanham Act surveys, likelihood of confusion analyses, secondary meaning studies, and mystery shopping services supporting competition and IP litigation.

Transfer pricing advisory, benchmarking, and documentation services for multinational companies managing intercompany transactions across jurisdictions. Assisted a multinational digital services company with global comparable company benchmarking; strengthened transfer pricing practice to support cross-border tax optimization and regulatory compliance.