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Segment Reporting | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Segment Reporting | Segment Reporting We manage our business in five reportable segments: Corporate Finance, FLC, Economic Consulting, Technology and Strategic Communications. 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, governments and other financing sources and creditor groups, as well as other parties-in-interest. We deliver a wide range of services centered around four core offerings: Business Transformation, Strategy, Transactions and Turnaround & Restructuring. 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 and 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. Our Economic Consulting segment, including subsidiary Compass Lexecon LLC, provides law firms, companies, government entities and other interested parties with analyses of complex economic issues for use in international arbitration, legal and regulatory proceedings, and strategic decision making and public policy debates around the world. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: Antitrust & Competition Economics, Financial Economics and International Arbitration. Our Technology segment provides companies, law firms, private equity firms and government entities with a comprehensive global portfolio of digital insights and risk management consulting services. Our professionals help organizations better address risk as the growing volume and variety of enterprise and emerging data intersects with legal, regulatory and compliance needs. We deliver a wide range of expert and analytics-powered solutions driven by investigations, litigation, antitrust and competition, M&A, restructuring and compliance and risk through three core offerings: Corporate Legal Department Consulting, E-discovery Services and Expertise, and Information Governance, Privacy & Security Services. Our Strategic Communications segment develops and executes communications strategies to help management teams, boards of directors, law firms, governments and regulators manage change and mitigate risk surrounding transformational and disruptive events, including transactions, investigations, disputes, crises, regulation and legislation. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: Corporate Reputation, Financial Communications and Public Affairs. Effective July 1, 2023, we modified the composition of two of our reportable segments to reflect changes in how we operate our business. We transferred 127 billable professionals in our health solutions practice within our FLC segment who focus on business transformation services in the healthcare and life sciences sector to our realigned business transformation practice within our Corporate Finance segment. This change aligns this group of professionals with the broader business transformation capabilities within the Corporate Finance segment. Eighty-three billable professionals who focus on advisory and managed care services within the health solutions practice remained in the FLC segment. Prior period Corporate Finance and FLC segment information included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Annual Report”) has been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation. We evaluate the performance of our operating segments based on Adjusted Segment EBITDA, a GAAP financial measure. We define Adjusted Segment EBITDA as a segment’s share of consolidated operating income before depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, remeasurement of acquisition-related contingent consideration, special charges and goodwill impairment charges. We define Total Adjusted Segment EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, as the total of Adjusted Segment EBITDA for all segments, which excludes unallocated corporate expenses. We use Adjusted Segment EBITDA as a basis to internally evaluate the financial performance of our segments because we believe it reflects current core operating performance and provides an indicator of the segment’s ability to generate cash. The table below presents revenues and Adjusted Segment EBITDA for our reportable segments:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2021
Revenues |  |  |  |  |
Corporate Finance (1) | $ | 1,346,678 |  |  | $ | 1,147,118 |  |  | $ | 979,350 |
FLC (1) | 654,105 |  |  | 579,933 |  |  | 544,454 |
Economic Consulting | 771,374 |  |  | 695,208 |  |  | 697,405 |
Technology | 387,855 |  |  | 319,983 |  |  | 287,366 |
Strategic Communications | 329,230 |  |  | 286,666 |  |  | 267,647 |
Total revenues | $ | 3,489,242 |  |  | $ | 3,028,908 |  |  | $ | 2,776,222 |
Adjusted Segment EBITDA |  |  |  |  |
Corporate Finance (1) | $ | 230,837 |  |  | $ | 214,809 |  |  | $ | 158,019 |
FLC (1) | 88,109 |  |  | 63,573 |  |  | 70,008 |
Economic Consulting | 115,807 |  |  | 103,090 |  |  | 117,186 |
Technology | 62,711 |  |  | 46,698 |  |  | 55,739 |
Strategic Communications | 50,909 |  |  | 50,620 |  |  | 54,313 |
Total Adjusted Segment EBITDA | $ | 548,373 |  |  | $ | 478,790 |  |  | $ | 455,265 |
(1)Effective July 1, 2023, prior period segment information for the Corporate Finance and FLC segments has been recast in this Annual Report to include the reclassification of the portion of the Company’s health solutions practice in the FLC segment to our realigned business transformation practice within our Corporate Finance segment. The table below reconciles net income to Total Adjusted Segment EBITDA. Unallocated corporate expenses primarily include indirect costs related to centrally managed administrative functions that have not been allocated to the segments. These administrative costs include costs related to executive management, legal, corporate office support costs, information technology, accounting, marketing, human resources and company-wide business development and strategy functions.
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2021
Net income | $ | 274,892 |  |  | $ | 235,514 |  |  | $ | 234,966 |
Add back: |  |  |  |  |
Income tax provision | 83,471 |  |  | 62,235 |  |  | 62,981 |
Interest income and other | 4,867 |  |  | (3,918) |  |  | (6,193) |
Interest expense | 14,331 |  |  | 10,047 |  |  | 20,294 |
Unallocated corporate expenses | 125,420 |  |  | 124,830 |  |  | 104,457 |
Segment depreciation expense | 39,233 |  |  | 32,876 |  |  | 31,072 |
Amortization of intangible assets | 6,159 |  |  | 9,642 |  |  | 10,818 |
Segment special charges | — |  |  | 7,564 |  |  | — |
Remeasurement of acquisition-related contingent consideration | — |  |  | — |  |  | (3,130) |
Total Adjusted Segment EBITDA | $ | 548,373 |  |  | $ | 478,790 |  |  | $ | 455,265 |
The table below presents assets by reportable segment, reconciled to consolidated amounts. Segment assets primarily include accounts and notes receivable, fixed assets purchased specifically for the segment, goodwill and intangible assets.
| December 31,
| 2023 |  | 2022
Corporate Finance (1) | $ | 1,057,999 |  |  | $ | 1,035,410 |
FLC (1) | 445,289 |  |  | 468,114 |
Economic Consulting | 592,985 |  |  | 540,133 |
Technology | 256,077 |  |  | 211,218 |
Strategic Communications | 232,279 |  |  | 205,464 |
Total segment assets | 2,584,629 |  |  | 2,460,339 |
Unallocated corporate assets | 741,249 |  |  | 781,068 |
Total assets | $ | 3,325,878 |  |  | $ | 3,241,407 |
(1)Effective July 1, 2023, prior period segment information for the Corporate Finance and FLC segments has been recast in this Annual Report to include the reclassification of the portion of the Company’s health solutions practice in the FLC segment to our realigned business transformation practice within our Corporate Finance segment. The table below details total revenues by country. Revenues have been attributed to locations based on the location of the legal entity generating the revenues.
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2021
U.S. | $ | 2,209,276 |  |  | $ | 1,922,337 |  |  | $ | 1,708,673 |
U.K. | 471,134 |  |  | 419,197 |  |  | 461,354 |
All other foreign countries (1) | 808,832 |  |  | 687,374 |  |  | 606,195 |
Total revenues | $ | 3,489,242 |  |  | $ | 3,028,908 |  |  | $ | 2,776,222 |
(1) There are no countries included in these amounts that individually represented more than 10 percent of total revenues for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021. We do not have a single customer that represents 10% or more of our consolidated revenues. The table below details information on our long-lived assets, which include property and equipment, net and non-current operating lease assets, by country. Long-lived assets have been attributed to locations based on the location of the legal entity holding the assets.
| December 31,
| 2023 |  | 2022
U.S. | $ | 224,467 |  |  | $ | 237,090 |
U.K. | 38,045 |  |  | 41,343 |
All other foreign countries (1) | 106,060 |  |  | 78,797 |
Total long-lived assets | $ | 368,572 |  |  | $ | 357,230 |
(1) There are no countries included in these amounts that individually represented more than 10 percent of long-lived assets as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.

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