These changing environments also create opportunities. FTI helps its clients capitalize on those opportunities by assisting them with strategic planning, including market entry analysis and competitive analysis, and with evaluating investment opportunities.
Mergers and acquisitions have become commonplace as regulated companies struggle to reposition themselves in changing markets. These transactions often are closely scrutinized by the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and federal and state regulators. FTI quantifies public and private merger benefits, analyzes potential effects on competitors and customer groups, and assists companies in responding to requests for information from government entities.
When companies are involved in anti-trust proceedings, FTI prepares detailed studies of decisions that were made, the facts supporting those decisions, and the quantitative effects on competition.
The FTI Network Industries Strategies professionals have testified on:
- Economic damages
- Economic effects of policy decisions
- Financial burden of meeting existing or proposed regulations
- Public and private benefits of proposed mergers and acquisitions
- Marginal, incremental and stand-alone costs of services
- Pricing of access to network facilities
- Energy industry restructuring
- Deregulation and market convergence
- Competitive pricing practices
- Regulatory and legislative policy
- Unbundled cost analyses
- Incentive rate making
- Supplier of last resort issues
- Unbundled rate making practices
- Network and ancillary services pricing
- Cost accounting
- Tariff administration
The FTI professionals have testified before:
- Federal and state courts
- Arbitration panels
- Surface Transportation Board
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Numerous state public utility commissions
Industries Served:
- Communications and media
- Electric power
- Transportation
- Energy