Regulatory Consulting at Analysis Group

Overview

Analysis Group is one of the largest privately held economic-consulting firms, consistently ranked among the very top expert shops for antitrust, competition, and public-policy economics alongside Compass Lexecon, Cornerstone, Brattle, CRA, and NERA. It provides economic, financial, and strategy analysis and expert testimony for litigation and regulatory proceedings, with deep benches in antitrust, healthcare, energy, and finance. Its AI relevance runs along two tracks that are converging fast. The first is AI as subject matter: as competition authorities scrutinize AI markets, mergers, and platform conduct, and as copyright and IP litigation over generative-AI training data mounts, Analysis Group’s antitrust and IP economists are the kind of experts courts and regulators retain to quantify competitive effects and damages. The second is AI as method: the firm increasingly applies machine learning and advanced data science within its own analytical work, and industry observers note that AI tools and faster dispute analytics are reshaping how economic-consulting firms deliver. Analysis Group’s combination of academic affiliations and litigation credibility makes it a natural venue for the economic questions AI raises.

AI-Focused Regulatory Work

Analysis Group’s role in AI policy is best understood through the litigation and regulatory frontier it already occupies. The defining economic questions about AI — is the foundation-model market becoming anticompetitively concentrated? how should the value of copyrighted works used to train models be measured? what are the damages when AI outputs allegedly infringe? — are increasingly being fought in courtrooms and before agencies, exactly where Analysis Group’s antitrust, competition, and IP economists operate. The firm’s model pairs full-time consultants with a network of affiliated academic experts, giving it the theoretical firepower to address novel questions that have little precedent, which is characteristic of AI disputes. Its healthcare and life-sciences depth is also relevant as AI enters clinical decision-making, drug discovery, and health-benefits administration, raising questions of efficacy, liability, and competition that turn on economic analysis. Because expert economic work is confidential by nature, Analysis Group’s specific AI engagements are rarely public, but its standing as a top-tier antitrust and damages shop means it is positioned squarely within the economic-expert layer that will help resolve AI’s competition and IP questions. For a directory reader, the honest framing is that Analysis Group is less an AI-thought-leadership publisher than a high-credibility expert firm whose relevance grows precisely as AI policy moves from principles into enforceable disputes — a firm to watch and to source expert perspective from, rather than one issuing public AI frameworks.

Notable AI Policy Work

• Provides antitrust and competition-economics testimony and analysis — the practice most directly engaged as regulators scrutinize AI markets, mergers, and platform conduct.
• Works IP and damages matters relevant to the wave of copyright litigation over generative-AI training data.
• Applies machine learning and advanced data science within its analytical work as AI tools reshape economic-consulting delivery.
• Brings deep healthcare and life-sciences expertise relevant to AI in clinical decision-making, drug discovery, and benefits administration.
• Pairs full-time economists with affiliated academic experts, giving it capacity to address novel, low-precedent questions characteristic of AI disputes.

Thought Leadership

1. Analysis Group — Antitrust & Competition
   The practice through which Analysis Group engages AI-market competition and merger questions — the frontier where AI antitrust matters are litigated.
2. Analysis Group — Insights & publications
   Analysis Group’s economic analysis across antitrust, IP, healthcare, energy, and finance, increasingly touching AI-related disputes and methods.

Clients

Law firms, corporations, and government agencies retaining Analysis Group for economic testimony and analysis in antitrust, IP, healthcare, energy, and finance. Specific engagements are confidential, consistent with expert work; the firm draws on a network of affiliated academic economists.