FTI CONSULTING INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 20, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Feb 20, 2025
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Item 1. BUSINESS
Unless otherwise indicated or required by the context, when we use the terms “Company,” “FTI Consulting,” “we,” “us” and “our,” we mean FTI Consulting, Inc., a Maryland corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries.
Company Overview
General
FTI Consulting 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. Individually, each of our segments and practices is staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, 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.
We report financial results for the following five reportable segments:
Corporate Finance & Restructuring (“Corporate Finance”);
Forensic and Litigation Consulting (“FLC”);
Economic Consulting;
Technology; and
Strategic Communications.
We work closely with our 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. We provide our 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. Our experienced professionals are recognized leaders in their chosen field not only for their level of knowledge and understanding, but for their ability to structure practical, workable solutions to complex issues and real-world problems. Our clients include Fortune 500 corporations, FTSE 100 companies, global banks, major law firms, leading 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 us or engage us directly or on behalf of their clients. We believe clients retain us because of our recognized expertise and capabilities in highly specialized areas, as well as our reputation for successfully meeting our clients’ needs.
Our operations span the globe encompassing locations within: (i) the Americas, including 38 U.S. offices located in 20 states and Washington, D.C., and four offices located in Canada; (ii) Latin America, including six offices located in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and the British Overseas Territories of the Cayman Islands and the Virgin Islands; (iii) Asia Pacific, including 17 offices located in Australia, China (including Hong Kong), India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea; and (iv) Europe, Middle East and Africa, including 37 offices located in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Netherlands, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom (“UK”). In certain jurisdictions, our segments and practices are operated through one or more direct or indirect subsidiaries.
We derive the majority of our revenues from providing professional services to clients in the U.S. For the year ended December 31, 2024, we derived approximately 64% and 36% of our consolidated revenues from the work of professionals who are assigned to locations inside and outside the U.S., respectively. Seasonal factors, such as the timing of our employees’ and clients’ vacations and holidays, may impact the timing of our revenues across our segments.
Summary Financial and Other Information
The following table sets forth the percentage of consolidated revenues for the last two years contributed by each of our five reportable segments.
| Year Ended December 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| Corporate Finance & Restructuring | 38% | 39% |
| Forensic and Litigation Consulting | 19% | 19% |
| Economic Consulting | 23% | 22% |
| Technology | 11% | 11% |
| Strategic Communications | 9% | 9% |
| Total | 100% | 100% |
The following table sets forth the number of offices and countries in which each segment operates, as well as the number of billable professionals in each of our reportable segments.
| December 31, · December 31, | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 · 2024 · 2023 | ||||||
| Offices · Countries (1) · Billable Headcount · Billable Headcount | ||||||
| Corporate Finance & Restructuring | 72 | 29 | 2,286 | 2,215 | ||
| Forensic and Litigation Consulting | 68 | 21 | 1,542 | 1,447 | ||
| Economic Consulting | 51 | 24 | 1,110 | 1,089 | ||
| Technology | 44 | 17 | 714 | 628 | ||
| Strategic Communications | 43 | 23 | 981 | 971 | ||
| Total | 6,633 | 6,350 | ||||
(1)“Countries” include the British Overseas Territories of the Cayman Islands and Virgin Islands
Our Reportable Segments
The Company is organized into five reportable segments, each of which seeks to be a global leader in its own right by serving as a trusted advisor when our clients are presented with challenging issues and the risks are high.
Corporate Finance & Restructuring
Our Corporate Finance 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 and governments. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: Transactions, Transformation & Strategy and Turnaround & Restructuring.
In 2024, our Corporate Finance segment offered the following services:
Transactions. We provide services that help clients strategize, structure, diligence, integrate, carve-out, value and communicate around business transactions, including the following offerings:
Diligence (Financial, Tax, HR, IT, Synergy and Regulatory)
Fairness and Solvency Opinions
Investment Banking
Merger Integration & Carve-Out Advisory
Strategic Alternatives
Valuation
Transformation & Strategy. We provide 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:
Cost Transformation
Data & Technology Transformation
Office of the Chief Financial Officer & Finance Transformation
Operations & Supply Chain Transformation
People & Change
Revenue Transformation
Strategy
Turnaround & Restructuring. We provide advisory services to help our 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:
Company Advisory
Contentious Insolvency
Creditor Advisory
Dispute Advisory & Litigation Support
Interim Management
Forensic and Litigation Consulting
Our 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 our data & analytics technology-enabled solutions, with a focus on highly regulated industries. Our 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, our FLC segment offered the following services:
Construction, Projects & Assets and Environmental Solutions (“Construction Solutions”). We provide 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 help organizations address environmental programmatic challenges and liability-related issues. Our key services include the following offerings:
Environmental Cost & Damages Analyses
Environmental Dispute Resolution
Expert Services in Delay, Disruption, Quantum & Damages
Project Delivery and Asset Management Advisory & Transformation
Technology Enablement, Data Intelligence & Construction Analytics
Data & Analytics. We provide in-depth analysis of large, disparate sets of financial, operational and transactional data, often when our clients are faced with a regulatory inquiry or a dispute. We provide strategic business solutions, including custom application and software development, to solve critical client needs. Our professionals, who include computer scientists, Ph.D. data scientists, mathematicians, business and finance experts, work together with industry, regulatory, legal and other experts. Our key services include the following offerings:
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
Remediation and Settlement Administration
Disputes. We provide courts and tribunals, parties to disputes and their legal counsel clear, reliable and objective advice on matters within our expertise, from discovery and investigation to expert witness testimony and damage quantification in international arbitration and dispute resolution consulting. We support our global clients with disputes of all kinds, including the following offerings:
Claims in International Public Law
Complex Commercial and Regulatory Disputes
Energy-related Disputes
Financial Products and Broker-dealer Disputes
Insurance-related Disputes
Intellectual Property
Labor and Employment
Healthcare Risk Management & Advisory. We work with healthcare providers, healthcare payers, life sciences companies and law firms to discern solutions that address business risks and advise and prepare our clients for both short-term and future strategic, operational, data and technological, financial and legal challenges. Our key services include the following offerings:
Disputes and Investigations
Financial Advisory
Managed Care & Value-based Care
Risk, Regulatory and Quality
Risk and Investigations. We provide 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. Our experts conduct investigations over a wide scope of issues and allegations, including the following offerings:
Accounting Advisory & Restatements
Anti-bribery & Corruption Investigations
Anti-money Laundering Investigations
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