For law firms, Analysis Group’s consultants help with a range of tasks, including pretrial discovery, development of economic and financial models, preparation of testimony, critique of opposing experts’ analyses, and provision of expert testimony.

Corporate and government clients call on the firm for help with a variety of business issues, including company and asset valuations, cost-effectiveness analyses, market and competition analyses, intellectual property matters, and tax issues. The firm’s large and growing health care practice integrates outcomes research, epidemiology, drug safety studies, and pricing and product strategy, as well as litigation support.

Unique Structure, Unique Results

Former Arthur D. Little consultants Bruce Stangle and Michael Koehn founded Analysis Group in 1981 in Belmont, MA. The two Ph.D. economists sought to fuse academic practice with business litigation consulting by applying economic research to distill complex situations into narratives with powerful effect when introduced at trials. Their goal was to create a uniquely collaborative environment. For each client engagement, Analysis Group’s professionals are grouped into teams, which are tailored to the needs of the project and the client. Often, these teams are supplemented by academic or industry experts from the firm’s external network.

At the beginning, the firm primarily consulted on mergers and acquisitions. Today, its consultants—working from 14 offices across North America, Europe and Asia—have experience in all areas of economics as it applies to the legal and business world. This includes securities, health care, energy, intellectual property, antitrust, and commercial litigation and damages.

Principled Professionals

The firm adheres to three guiding principles, which give shape to its business philosophy.

The first is access: Analysis Group maintains close ties to specialists—top minds in academia, leaders in their respective industries, and government insiders— to ensure that clients have access to the best people and ideas. Consultants work closely with a network of such experts to offer clients quantitative analysis and hands-on experience to help overcome business and legal hurdles.

The second is collaboration: The firm encourages strong relationships within consulting teams and between teams and clients—which ultimately improves communication, effectiveness, and satisfaction.

The third tenet is responsiveness: Analysis Group can rapidly identify specialized experts for a case and employs a flexible structure that allows teams to quickly scale up or down as needed.