Our Expertise.

Cambridge Meridian Group, Inc. (CMG) helps clients in rapidly evolving and fast growth technology markets as well as Fortune 500 companies in well-established industries.  

The firm offers assistance in three practice areas:

Strategy Consulting Services | Litigation Support | Bankruptcy and Turnaround Services
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CMG provides expert business strategies and market research for companies expanding their customer footprint and enhancing their overall product and service offering.   CMG offers a unique blend of expertise including finance, strategy, legal, political, academic and technical experience to provide unparalleled value for our clients.

Strategy Consulting Services                    Services offered by CMG

CMG’s Consulting Practice is focused on integrating customer, technology and market changes to create a long-term corporate strategy.

​For nearly thirty (30) years, CMG’s staff has worked in a broad range of industries globally, with expertise in healthcare and high-technology markets. We also serve Fortune 500 companies in well-established industries. We are skilled with quantitative and financial analysis and understanding the financial consequences of strategic and competitive choices as well as the effect of legal issues on business strategy and value.

Principals of the firm have over fifteen years of consulting experience in strategic planning; other consultants have at least three years of experience. All members of our staff are educated or experienced in business management. Certain professionals also have backgrounds in technology assessment, medical research, economics, finance, law and politics.​
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• Market assessment and research
• Data analysis and forecasting
• Gathering intelligence on markets in which clients operate
• Competitive and ecosystem analysis
• Value architectural process
• Partner identification
• Finance analysis and modeling
• Acquisition planning
• Corporate strategy
• Go-to market and execution plans

 

Litigation Support

​CMG's Litigation Practice assesses the economic consequences of issues raised in business litigation. Over the past 30 years, CMG has served as an expert witness in a wide range of legal proceedings including antitrust and other competition matters, bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance and business valuation, as well as the calculation of damages associated with such proceedings.
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CMG consultants have provided expert economic advice for a number of institutions, ranging from the government, such as the Department of Justice (DOJ) on antitrust matters, to multi-national corporations for damage calculations in patent and antitrust lawsuits. We have been retained as expert witnesses by firms litigating patent infringement cases.  We also assist large corporations to navigate antitrust and patent lawsuits.

Case Involvement

​Led by Jack McMullen, who taught Business Strategy at the Harvard Law School, CMG has participated in nearly 50 legal cases involving issues such as:

• Monopolization and attempts to monopolize
  
• Tying
  
• Predatory pricing
  
• Price fixing
  
• Unfair competition and restraint of trade
  
• Robinson-Patman price discrimination
  
• Competitive effects of acquisition, consolidation, and joint ventures
  
• Hart-Scott-Rodino filings and testimony before the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in connection with them
  
• Competitive effect of patents
  
• Damage calculations 

Bankruptcy and Turnaround Services

Sample Bankruptcy and Turnaround Clients Include:

Bankruptcy and Turnaround Services

CMG's Bankruptcy and Turnaround Practice specializes in turnarounds of companies facing difficulties. CMG has served as both Examiner and Trustee in bankruptcy work using its experience in strategy consulting to focus on quickly understanding underlying central business issues and dynamics, then structuring solutions that have revived successful long-term operations for most of the companies CMG has been involved with.
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CMG has also applied its approach to troubled companies at a point before business has deteriorated to a level where a bankruptcy filing is needed. CMG is experienced as well in business valuations; such value assessments are often useful in guiding decisions taken in turnaround work. 

Sample Bankruptcy and Turnaround
​Clients Include:

• Scott Laboratories

After operating at a collateral-neutral level in Chapter 11, Scott's assets were sold at a substantial premium over liquidation value. The company, a maker of medical diagnostic kits with associated research facilities, is continuing its operations in different parts of the US today. 

• MicroPro

CMG was retained to help this leading computer software company design a new product strategy to capitalize on the market position won by its early success, Wordstar. CMG's work reoriented the company toward feasible new products and helped it attain, then maintain positive cash flow. Previously, overly optimistic growth prospects and associated hiring led the company to experience intermittent negative cash flow despite good margins and nearly $50 million of annual sales. The company later merged with Softkey. 
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• SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN

As Examiner, CMG audited this business in bankruptcy and concluded that the inventory liquidation sale did not provide sufficient incentive to the court-approved liquidator to work diligently for the estate. CMG predicted that the sale would fail to meet its projections, a prediction later proved to be correct.