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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-16-102313
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20160303

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001053706
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-LEGAL SERVICES [8111]
		IRS NUMBER:				042372210
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MA
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		200 CLARENDON STREET
		STREET 2:		T-33
		CITY:			BOSTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			02116
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6174253000

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		STREET 1:		200 CLARENDON STREET
		STREET 2:		T-33
		CITY:			BOSTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			02116

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19980126
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">March&nbsp;3, 2016</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Christina Chalk,&nbsp;Esq.<br> Senior Special Counsel<br> Office of Mergers&nbsp;&amp; Acquisitions<br> United States Securities and Exchange Commission<br> Division of Corporation Finance<br> Washington, D.C.&#160; 20549</font></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt 1.0in;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Re:</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b>CRA International,&nbsp;Inc.<br> Schedule TO-I <br> Filed February&nbsp;22, 2016<br> File No.&nbsp;5-55087</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Ms.&nbsp;Chalk:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">On behalf of our client, CRA International,&nbsp;Inc. (&#147;CRA&#148;), we have set forth below CRA&#146;s responses to the comments of the staff (the &#147;Staff&#148;) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;SEC&#148;) contained in a letter dated February&nbsp;23, 2016 (the &#147;Letter&#148;) relating to the filing made by CRA indicated above.&#160; Each of the responses follows the corresponding numbered comment contained in the Letter.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Schedule TO - Item 10. Financial Statements</font></u></b></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">1.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b><i style="font-weight:bold;">SEC Comment:</i></b><i>&#160; Please explain in your response letter why you do not believe that financial information showing the pro forma effect of the tender offer is material in the contest of this offer.&#160; See Item 1010(b)&nbsp;of Regulation M-A.&#160; In this regard, we note that if fully subscribed at the minimum offer price, you would be repurchasing 18.7% of CRA&#146;s outstanding common stock.&#160; We also note that you will pay for tendered shares in part from borrowings under CRA&#146;s line of credit.</i></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Response:</font></b>&#160; CRA does not believe the pro forma financial information described in Item 1010(b)&nbsp;of Regulation M-A is material under the circumstances.&#160; Instruction 2 to Item 10 of Schedule TO indicates that financial statements are not material to a tender offer when (i)&nbsp;the consideration offered consists solely of cash, (ii)&nbsp;there is no financing condition to the offer and (iii)&nbsp;the offeror is a public reporting company under Section&nbsp;13(a)&nbsp;or Section&nbsp;15(d)&nbsp;of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that files electronically on EDGAR.&#160; CRA confirms to the Staff that all three of these conditions are satisfied in the present tender offer.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The principal effects of completion of the tender offer would be: (a)&nbsp;to reduce CRA&#146;s cash by the total amount of funds used by CRA to purchase the shares tendered in the tender offer and to pay the related fees and expenses; (b)&nbsp;to increase CRA&#146;s liabilities to the extent it borrows from its revolving credit facility to consummate the tender offer; (c)&nbsp;to reduce CRA&#146;s shareholders&#146; equity by the amount of funds used to consummate the tender offer; (d)&nbsp;to reduce the number of shares of CRA&#146;s common stock outstanding by the number of shares purchased in the tender offer; and (e)&nbsp;to increase proportionately earnings/loss per share of CRA by virtue of the decrease in the number of shares of CRA&#146;s common stock outstanding.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Although CRA does not believe the pro forma financial information referred to in Item 1010(b)&nbsp;of Regulation M-A is material, in response to the Staff&#146;s comment, CRA has revised Item 9 of the Offer to Purchase, entitled &#147;Source and Amount of Funds,&#148; to include disclosure similar to the paragraph above regarding the principal effects the tender offer would have on CRA&#146;s financial statements.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Source and Amount of Funds, page&nbsp;27</font></u></b></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">2.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b><i style="font-weight:bold;">SEC Comment:</i></b><i>&#160; State the approximate amount of cash on hand to be used to purchase tendered shares versus the funds that will come from your existing line of credit.&#160; See Item 1007 of Regulation M-A.</i></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Response:</font></b>&#160; The amount of cash on hand to be used by CRA to purchase tendered shares versus funds that will come from its revolving credit facility depends principally on the timing of completion of the tender offer and the payment by CRA of accrued bonuses to its consultant employees.&#160; CRA typically pays annual bonuses to its consultant employees in late March&nbsp;or early April&nbsp;of each year, after management of the Company and the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of CRA have made final determinations as to bonus amounts for eligible employees.&#160; CRA has accrued $44.9 million of bonuses as of January&nbsp;2, 2016, the end of its most recently completed fiscal year.&#160; If the tender offer expires on March&nbsp;21, 2016 as currently scheduled and the tendered shares are paid before CRA pays its annual bonuses, CRA expects that it will pay for the tendered shares substantially, if not entirely, out of cash on hand.&#160; If, on the other hand, CRA pays all or a substantial portion of its accrued employee bonuses prior to payment of the tendered shares, and assuming that CRA is purchasing $30 million of shares in the tender offer, CRA expects that it will pay for the tendered shares substantially, if not entirely, out of borrowed funds from its revolving credit facility.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We are filing herewith Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to the Schedule TO-I filed with the SEC on February&nbsp;22, 2016.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In addition, attached hereto is a written statement from CRA acknowledging the matters set forth in the Letter.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Please do not hesitate to call me at (617) 832-1209 with any questions.&#160; Thank you for your assistance.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pursuant to the letter, dated February&nbsp;23, 2016, from the staff of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;SEC&#148;) containing comments relating to the Schedule TO-I filed by CRA International,&nbsp;Inc. with the SEC on February&nbsp;22, 2016 (the &#147;Filing&#148;) in connection with the issuer tender offer to purchase for cash up to $30,000,000 in value of its common stock, CRA International,&nbsp;Inc. (&#147;CRA&#148;) hereby acknowledges that:</font></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">1.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>CRA is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the Filing;</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Date: March&nbsp;3, 2016</font></p>
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