Berkeley Research Group, LLC (BRG) is a global

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that helps organizations with assistance in disputes and investigations,

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, and performance improvement and advisory. BRG is headquartered in

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, with offices across the

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and in

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, the

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and the

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. As of January 2024, it has more than 1,600 employees across more than forty offices..

History

BRG was co-founded in February 2010 by a group including Dr. David Teece, who has served as its executive chairman.

Practice Areas

BRG provides economic, financial, and analytical advice for a range of disciplines: * antitrust and competition policy *

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certification *

construction Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the a ...

corporate governance Corporate governance refers to the mechanisms, processes, practices, and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated by their boards of directors, managers, shareholders, and stakeholders. Definitions "Corporate governance" may ...

damages At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award, the claimant must show that a breach of duty has caused foreseeable loss. To be recognized at ...

analysis * energy * environment and natural resources *

finance Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

and valuation * financial reporting evaluation and

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* forensic financial investigations * health analytics *

information technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

insurance Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect ...

and

reinsurance Reinsurance is insurance that an insurance company purchases from another insurance company to insulate itself (at least in part) from the risk of a major claims event. With reinsurance, the company passes on ("cedes") some part of its own insu ...

intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, co ...

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and domestic

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* labor and

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issues. BRG also advises clients in industry sectors with compliance, business process improvement, and strategy consulting.

Research

In January 2011, the

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(CIRM), a state agency created by voters with Proposition 71, the California

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Research and Cures Act, released an independent economic impact study authored by BRG professionals. The report showed that the first $1.1 billion in grants created 25,000 job years and $200 million in new tax revenue through 2014. Taxpayer funding generates 2,739 jobs annually. Special Advisor Dr. Laura D'Andrea Tyson and directors Dr. Kenneth Serwin and Dr. Eric Drabkin performed "The Benefits for the U.S. Economy of a Temporary Tax Reduction on the Repatriation of Foreign Subsidiary Earnings," a 2011 economic study commissioned by the

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. The study assessed the effects of a one-time reduction in the

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applied to the repatriation of foreign subsidiary earnings on spending, output, and employment in the U.S. economy. The study found that a temporary reduction to approximately 5.25 percent would lead to a significant increase in repatriations, making $942 billion available for domestic use by U.S. multinational corporations. In 2013, the same authors published "Implications of a Switch to a Territorial Tax System in the United States: A Critical Comparison to the Current System." Citizens for Tax Justice wrote that the study "flies in the face of overwhelming evidence that today many of these profits are really earned in the U.S. but characterized as 'offshore' in order to obtain existing tax benefits that would be expanded under a territorial system." In 2022, BRG published several articles: “Estimating the Benefits from Collaboration: The Case of SEMATECH” by David Teece, which was cited in the Economic Report of the President, "ESI Triage Distribution in U.S. Emergency Departments” by Nicholas Chmielewski, which was published in ''

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'', “International Trade and the Survival of Mammalian and Reptilian Species" by Michael A. Williams et al., which was published in ''

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','' and ''Assets and Finances: Calculating Intellectual Property Damages, 2022-2023 ed''. by Cleve Tyler, Greg Smith, and Deepa Sundararaman, which was published by Reuters. In 2023, David Ab h r, Neal Brody, Robin Cantor, and Dubravka Tosic published “Emerging Areas of Group and Class Actions Related to ESG Disclosures,” in ICLG ''Class and Group Actions Laws and Regulations 2023.''

BRG Review

''BRG Review'' is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal that presents original research and analysis on topics of interest to audiences including economists, accountants, legal scholars, and industry leaders.

Thinkset

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Notable Employees Past and Present

* David Teece * Robert Rogowsky *

Laura Tyson Laura D'Andrea Tyson (born June 28, 1947) is an American economist and university administrator who is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley and a senio ...

* Leonard Waverman

Reception

Charles H. Ferguson, author of ''Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America'', criticized Berkeley Research Group for focusing primarily "on helping companies avoid or influence legislation, public debate, regulation, prosecution, class-action lawsuits, antitrust judgments, and taxes."

References

External links

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Economic Recovery Advisory Board – Laura Tyson
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