FTI Consulting, Inc. (FTI Consulting) operates as a business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk, and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational, and transactional.
FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle, from proactive risk management to rapid response to unexpected events and dynamic environments.
The company works closely with its clients...
FTI Consulting, Inc. (FTI Consulting) operates as a business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk, and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational, and transactional.
FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle, from proactive risk management to rapid response to unexpected events and dynamic environments.
The company works closely with its clients to help them anticipate and overcome complex business challenges, and make the most of opportunities arising from factors, such as the economy, financial and credit markets, governmental legislation and regulation, and litigation. It provides its clients with expert advice and solutions involving transactions, transformation & strategy, turnaround & restructuring, construction, projects, assets & environmental solutions, data & analytics, disputes, healthcare risk management & advisory, risk and investigations, antitrust & competition economics, financial economics, international arbitration, corporate legal department consulting, electronic discovery (or ‘e-discovery’) services and expertise, information governance, privacy & security services, corporate reputation, financial communications, and public affairs. Its clients include Fortune 500 corporations, FTSE 100 companies, global banks, major law firms, private equity firms, and local, state, and national governments and agencies around the globe. In addition, major United States (‘U.S.’) and international law firms refer the company or engage the company directly or on behalf of their clients.
The company's operations span the globe, encompassing locations within: the Americas, including multiple U.S. offices located in various states and Washington, D.C., and a few offices located in Canada; Latin America, including a few offices located in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and the British Overseas Territories of the Cayman Islands and the Virgin Islands; the Asia Pacific, including various offices located in Australia, China (including Hong Kong), India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea; and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, including multiple offices located in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom (‘U.K.’). In certain jurisdictions, the company's segments and practices are operated through one or more direct or indirect subsidiaries.
The company derives the majority of its revenues from providing professional services to clients in the U.S. For the year ended December 31, 2024, the company derived approximately 64% and 36% of its consolidated revenues from the work of professionals who are assigned to locations inside and outside the U.S., respectively.
Segments
The company is organized into five reportable segments: Corporate Finance & Restructuring (‘Corporate Finance’); Forensic and Litigation Consulting (‘FLC’); Economic Consulting; Technology; and Strategic Communications.
Corporate Finance & Restructuring
The company's Corporate Finance segment focuses on the strategic, operational, financial, transactional, and capital needs of its clients around the world. Its clients include companies, boards of directors, investors, private equity sponsors, lenders, and other financing sources and creditor groups, as well as other parties-in-interest and governments. The company delivers a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: Transactions, Transformation & Strategy, and Turnaround & Restructuring.
In 2024, the company's Corporate Finance segment offered the following services:
Transactions: The company provides services that help clients strategize, structure, diligence, integrate, carve-out, value, and communicate around business transactions, including the following offerings, such as diligence (financial, tax, HR, IT, synergy, and regulatory); fairness and solvency opinions; investment banking; merger integration & carve-out advisory; strategic alternatives; and valuation.
Transformation & Strategy: The company provides independent transformation & strategy expertise to deliver end-to-end value and drive change across the enterprise, enhance performance, build sustainable growth, and foster a culture of excellence, including the following offerings, such as cost transformation; data & technology transformation; office of the chief financial officer & finance transformation; operations & supply chain transformation; people & change; revenue transformation; and strategy.
Turnaround & Restructuring: The company provides advisory services to help its clients stabilize finances and operations to reassure debtors, creditors, and other stakeholders that proactive steps are being taken to preserve and enhance value, including the following offerings, such as company advisory; contentious insolvency; creditor advisory; dispute advisory & litigation support; and interim management.
Forensic and Litigation Consulting
The company's FLC segment provides law firms, companies, boards of directors, government entities, private equity firms, and other interested parties with a multidisciplinary and independent range of services across risk & investigations and disputes, supported by its data & analytics technology-enabled solutions, with a focus on highly regulated industries. Its services are centered around five core offerings: Construction, Projects & Assets and Environmental Solutions, Data & Analytics, Disputes, Healthcare Risk Management & Advisory, and Risk and Investigations.
In 2024, the company's FLC segment offered the following services:
Construction, Projects & Assets and Environmental Solutions (‘Construction Solutions’): The company provides dispute resolution, advisory, and transformation services that address the strategic, financial, operational, regulatory, and capital needs of complex construction and environmental projects, programs, liabilities, and physical asset management for organizations across multiple industries, and helps organizations address environmental programmatic challenges and liability-related issues. The company's key services include the following offerings, such as environmental cost & damages analyses; environmental dispute resolution; expert services in delay, disruption, quantum & damages; project delivery and asset management advisory & transformation; and technology enablement, data intelligence & construction analytics.
Data & Analytics: The company provides in-depth analysis of large, disparate sets of financial, operational, and transactional data, often when its clients are faced with a regulatory inquiry or a dispute. It provides strategic business solutions, including custom application and software development, to solve critical client needs. Its professionals, who include computer scientists, Ph.D. data scientists, mathematicians, business, and finance experts, work together with industry, regulatory, legal, and other experts. The company's key services include the following offerings, such as anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, sanctions, and fraud investigations; data strategy, governance, and reconciliation; data visualization, process improvement, and business intelligence solutions; dispute resolution; machine learning and other AI solutions; and remediation and settlement administration.
Disputes: The company provides courts and tribunals, parties to disputes, and their legal counsel clear, reliable, and objective advice on matters within its expertise, from discovery and investigation to expert witness testimony and damage quantification in international arbitration and dispute resolution consulting. It supports its global clients with disputes of all kinds, including the following offerings, such as claims in international public law; complex commercial and regulatory disputes; energy-related disputes; financial products and broker-dealer disputes; insurance-related disputes; intellectual property; and labor and employment.
Healthcare Risk Management & Advisory: The company works with healthcare providers, healthcare payers, life sciences companies, and law firms to discern solutions that address business risks and advise and prepare its clients for both short-term and future strategic, operational, data and technological, financial, and legal challenges. Its key services include the following offerings, such as disputes and investigations; financial advisory; managed care & value-based care; and risk, regulatory, and quality.
Risk and Investigations: The company provides compliance, risk assessment, investigative, litigation consulting, and remediation expertise on a wide range of investigations to boards of directors, executive management, in-house counsel, and their outside legal advisors at law firms. Its experts conduct investigations over a wide scope of issues and allegations, including the following offerings, such as accounting advisory & restatements; anti-bribery & corruption investigations; anti-money laundering investigations; cybersecurity; environmental, social and governance (‘ESG’) & sustainability; export controls, sanctions & trade; financial regulatory investigations; Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (‘FCPA’) violations; forensic accounting & fraud investigations; geopolitical and related security risk; and monitorships.
Economic Consulting
The company's Economic Consulting segment, including subsidiary Compass Lexecon LLC (‘Compass Lexecon’), provides law firms, companies, government entities, and other interested parties with analyses of complex economic issues for use in international arbitration, legal and regulatory proceedings, and strategic decision-making and public policy debates around the world. The company delivers a wide range of services centered around three core offerings, such as Antitrust & Competition Economics, Financial Economics, and International Arbitration.
In 2024, the company's Economic Consulting segment offered the following services:
Antitrust & Competition Economics: The company performs sophisticated economic analyses and provides expert testimony on international and regulatory antitrust and competition proceedings, practices, and litigation, including the following offerings, such as M&A-related antitrust, and non-M&A-related antitrust.
Financial Economics: The company performs sophisticated economic analysis and modeling of issues and provides expert testimony relating to transactions, commercial disputes, regulatory proceedings, and a wide range of securities litigation to regulated and unregulated industries and government regulators, including the following offerings, such as contractual claims; rate setting; securities litigation & risk management; transfer pricing; and valuation.
International Arbitration: The company works with companies, governments, and members of the international bar to provide independent advice and expert testimony relating to business valuations and economic damages in a wide variety of commercial and treaty disputes before international arbitration tribunals, including the following offerings, such as business valuations; commercial and treaty disputes; economic damages; and litigation support.
Technology
The company's Technology segment provides companies, law firms, private equity firms, and government entities with a comprehensive global portfolio of digital insights and risk management consulting and data services. Its professionals help organizations better address risk as the growing volume and variety of enterprise and emerging data intersect with legal, regulatory, and compliance needs. It delivers a wide range of expert and analytics-powered solutions driven by investigations, litigation, antitrust and competition, M&A, restructuring, and compliance and risk through three core offerings: Corporate Legal Department Consulting, E-discovery and Analytics Services and Expertise, and Information Governance, Privacy & Security Services.
In 2024, the company's Technology segment offered the following services:
Corporate Legal Department Consulting: The company helps companies streamline and optimize legal operations through an expert-driven approach leveraging technology and analytics, including the following offerings, such as advisory on governance, policy, standards, and execution; advisory on operational efficiencies; contract services; legal technology selection and implementation; and subscriptions and managed services.
E-discovery and Analytics Services and Expertise: The company provides services that help companies more efficiently manage complex and evolving data collection and discovery amid a rapidly evolving landscape of new data sources and types, including the following offerings, such as AI & data analytics; analytics research; cryptocurrency disputes and investigations; digital assets and blockchain advisory services; e-discovery and data compliance management; e-discovery managed services; emerging data sources discovery and governance; investigations and digital forensics; managed document review and production; and M&A-related second requests.
Information Governance, Privacy & Security Services: The company helps clients manage emerging data, navigate their evolving regulatory and privacy obligations, including AI, prepare for and respond to external threats, decrease storage costs, remediate and secure corporate data, enable faster and deeper insight into data, and provide expert testimony to defend corporate data management processes, including the following offerings, such as AI governance; data privacy program development and implementation; data remediation, disposition, and protection; data subject access requests; migration of enterprise data to cloud applications; pixel, ad tracker, and AdTech services; post-data breach privacy analysis and response; and regulatory readiness advisory and implementation.
Strategic Communications
The company's Strategic Communications segment develops and executes communications strategies to help management teams, boards of directors, law firms, governments, and regulators manage change and mitigate risk surrounding transformational and disruptive events, including transactions, investigations, disputes, crises, regulation, and legislation. It delivers a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: Corporate Reputation, Financial Communications, and Public Affairs.
In 2024, the company's Strategic Communications segment offered the following services:
Corporate Reputation: The company designs and provides communications to protect and enhance business reputations, build organizations’ public profiles, and support their business outcomes, including the following offerings, such as crisis and issues management; cybersecurity and data privacy communications; digital, analytics, and insights; litigation communications; and people & transformation.
Financial Communications: The company designs and provides communications strategies to help business leaders deliver consistent and credible narratives to raise capital, engage with investors, and navigate transitional business events, including the following offerings, such as corporate governance & shareholder activism; ESG & sustainability; M&A communications; and restructuring and financial issues.
Public Affairs: The company combines public policy, capital markets, and sector-specific expertise to offer unique insights for clients operating at the critical intersection between business and government, including the following offerings, such as government investigations; government relations; public affairs research & opinion polling; public affairs strategy; and public policy advocacy.
Industry Specializations
The company employs professionals across its segments and practices who are qualified to provide its core services plus a range of specialized consulting services and solutions that address the strategic, reputational, operational, financial, regulatory, legal, and other needs of specific industries. The major industry groups that it services include, such as aerospace & defense; airlines & aviation; blockchain & digital assets; chemicals; construction & environmental; energy; financial services; food & agribusiness; healthcare & life sciences; hospitality, gaming & leisure; industrials & automotive; insurance; mining; private equity; power, renewables & energy transition; professional services; public sector & government contracts; real estate; retail & consumer products; telecom, media & technology; and transportation & logistics.
Business Strategy
The key elements of the company’s business strategy are to leverage its practitioners’ and businesses’ expertise, geographic reach, diverse service offerings, and client relationships; grow organically; consider strategic and opportunistic acquisition opportunities on a selective basis; endeavor to leverage its investments to build positions that will support profitable growth on a sustained basis through a variety of economic conditions; and identify and pursue business opportunities.
History
FTI Consulting, Inc. was founded in 1982. The company was incorporated in 1982.
