Economic Consulting
Our dedicated team of economic consultants will deliver clear and candid advice to guide your key commercial and strategic decisions. This can be in the context of your commercial strategy and operations or in the context of competition and disputes.
Our economic consultants have expertise and experience developed by working in leading economic consultancy firms, regulators and in industry. The team also leverage the deep industry knowledge and specialist technical skills that are available through our full range of accountancy services and BDO’s international network of partner firms that operates in over 160 countries.
Commercial advisory
We work together with our technical and corporate finance colleagues to enable better strategic and commercial decisions, enhance performance improvement initiatives, carry out due diligence on investment opportunities and improve customer value.
Regulatory advisory and disputes
We investigate and analyse regulated industries, assisting corporate clients and law firms in responding to various regulatory issues, including regulatory accounting and pricing. We help our clients to understand and quantify the impact of regulatory policies (such as price caps, cost orientation and regulated cost of capital) and breaches in that policy by regulated entities.
Competition economics
We support cartel investigations, estimate follow-on and stand-alone damages, assess evidence on market manipulation and act on excessive pricing matters. You can find out more here.
Commercial disputes
We to produce evidence, expert opinions and testimony on causation and quantum of loss in various contexts including due to alleged fraud, reputational effects from conduct, regulatory intervention, breach of contract and service interruption. Where this is beneficial we collaborate with our Forensic accountant colleagues.
Companies and their legal advisors turn to us for support in all stages of process of investigations into competition matters and commercial disputes:
Competition and cartel analysis
We assess existence and abuse of dominance, including whether joint conduct was anti-competitive
Identifying causation
We assess whether a breach, business interruption or prohibited conduct in fact caused harm, and to who.
Quantifying loss
We establish credible counterfactual revenues and/or costs to quantify economic losses suffered.
Expert testimony
We present and defend our analysis in front of competition authorities, courts and arbitration tribunals.
Internal Conduct
We act as Monitoring Trustees and help businesses improve their processes and practices to reduce risks of regulatory scrutiny.
We enable better strategic and commercial decisions and enhance performance improvement through economic and econometric analysis:
Commercial strategy
We support decision makers through market modelling, demand forecasting, pricing strategy, and quantification of economic value of products.
Performance improvement
We specialise in using econometric, simulation and other statistical techniques to uncover and quantify the causal effect drivers of performance and assess achievable improvement opportunities.
Valuation and appraisal
We develop coherent scenarios to provide independent valuation of financial products and investment opportunities
Customer value
We model customer decision making on their characteristics and observed behaviour to inform decisions that maximise value.
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