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FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN) is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. FTI Consulting professionals work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and make the most of opportunities.

FTI Consulting provides clients with multidisciplinary solutions through our Corporate Finance & Restructuring, Forensic and Litigation Consulting, Economic Consulting, Technology and Strategic Communications business segments.<

Corporate Finance & Restructuring
Our Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment focuses on the strategic, operational, financial, transactional and capital needs of our clients around the world. Our 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. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: business transformation, transactions and turnaround & restructuring. Additionally, our services include dispute advisory, M&A, valuation and financial advisory and tax services. Our clients demand our industry expertise, which includes emphasis in the automotive, energy, power & products (“EPP”), healthcare, mining, real estate & infrastructure, retail & consumer products, and telecom, media & technology (“TMT”) sectors.

Forensic and Litigation Consulting
Our Forensic and Litigation Consulting (“FLC”) segment provides law firms, companies, government entities, private equity firms and other interested parties with a multidisciplinary and independent range of services in risk and investigations and disputes, including a focus on highly regulated industries, such as our construction & environmental solutions and health solutions services. These services are supported by our data & analytics solutions, which help our clients analyze large, disparate sets of data related to their business operations and support our clients during regulatory inquiries and commercial disputes. We deliver a wide range of services centered around five core offerings: construction & environmental solutions, data & analytics, disputes, health solutions and risk and investigations. We advise our clients in response to allegations involving the propriety of accounting and financial reporting, fraud, regulatory scrutiny and anti-corruption. We assist our clients in protecting enterprise value by (i) quantifying damages and providing expert testimony in a wide range of dispute situations: claims and liabilities, government and regulatory inquiries, investigations and proceedings, litigation, intellectual property ("IP"), professional malpractice, lost profits, valuations, breach of contract, purchase price disagreements, business interruption, environmental claims, construction claims and fraud, (ii) employing forensic accounting and complex modeling to analyze financial transactions, and (iii) identifying, collecting, analyzing and preserving structured information within enterprise systems. We have the capacity to provide our full array of practice offerings across jurisdictional boundaries around the world.

Economic Consulting
Our 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. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: antitrust & competition economics, financial economics and international arbitration. We help clients analyze issues such as the economic impact of deregulation on a particular industry and the amount of damages suffered by a business as a result of a particular event. Our professionals regularly provide expert testimony on damages, rates and prices, valuations (including valuations of complex financial instruments), antitrust and competition regulation, business valuations, IP, transfer pricing and public policy.

Technology
Our Technology segment provides companies, law firms, private equity firms and government entities with a comprehensive global portfolio of consulting and services to address legal and regulatory risk, including e-discovery, information governance, privacy and security and corporate legal operations solutions. We deliver a full spectrum of services centered around three core offerings: corporate legal operations, e-discovery services and expertise, and information governance, privacy & security services. Our consulting and services allow our clients to control the risk and expense of information during legal and regulatory events more confidently, as well as better understand and act on their data in the context of compliance and risk. Our professionals help clients locate, analyze, review and produce electronically stored information ("ESI"), including email, computer files, audio, video, instant messaging, cloud data and social media. Our professionals have a proven track record of helping clients with complex issues, including internal investigations, regulatory and global investigations such as under the FCPA and UKBA, litigation and joint defense, discovery and preparation, and antitrust and competition investigations, including second requests under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended.

Strategic Communications
Our 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. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: corporate reputation, financial communications and public affairs. We believe our integrated offerings, which include a broad scope of services, deep industry expertise and global reach, are unique and distinguish us from other strategic communications consultancies.

We are a trusted advisor working for the world’s leading law firms, corporations and financial institutions. We service a blue-chip client list of corporations, legal firms and financial services companies. As of December 31, 2021, our clients include 98 of the world’s top 100 law firms, 9 of the 10 largest bank holding companies, and 59 of the world’s 100 largest companies. In addition, we also serve a broad range of federal, state and local government agencies.

Our business is highly competitive. Our competitors include both public and private companies that range from large organizations, such as global accounting firms and large management consulting companies that offer a broad range of consulting services, to small boutique firms and independent contractors that provide one specialized service.

FTI Consulting is a trusted advisor to its clients, helping them to address the mission critical issues that can impact their enterprise value.

• We have powerful positions and people – Our people are our most valuable asset, and our staff of well-respected professionals represents an unmatched depth and diversity of experience and expertise. Within our ranks we have forensic accountants; former chief executives and political leaders; Nobel laureates; former SEC professionals; top-ranking economists; certified turnaround professionals; interim management professionals; corporate investigation specialists; banking and securities professionals; certified public accountants; chartered financial analysts; and corporate, financial and crisis communications specialists. Our commitment to hiring the best and the brightest has solidified FTI Consulting’s position as a market leader and given the Company what we believe is the most recognizable brand in its market.

• FTI Consulting has built a flexible and attractive global business model with the opportunity to leverage cross-company capabilities – The diversity of the Company’s scope of services and its global footprint gives FTI Consulting the flexibility to help its clients address their issues wherever they occur.

As of December 31, 2022, FTI Consulting had more than 7,600 employees.

The FTI Consulting network is truly global in scope and we have a presence in all the major financial centers in the world, FTI Consulting has employees in 84 cities in 31 countries as of September 30, 2023. The corporate headquarters is in Bowie, Maryland. The executive headquarters is in Washington, D.C.

Along with solid organic growth, acquisitions have always been a part of FTI Consulting’s growth strategy. The Company pursues a highly selective acquisition program, and considers opportunities that enhance our segment offerings, industry expertise and geographic footprint.

The Company’s fiscal year ends on December 31. 

The Company announces its year-end financial results near the end of February. First, second and third quarter earnings are announced in late April/early May, late July/early August and late October/early November, respectively.

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