Interview process
Preparation should focus on quantitative problem solving, research and clear communication. Candidates should practice interpreting data, building assumptions and explaining the economic question.
Internship programs
Summer internship architecture
Brattle’s Summer Internships page separates Research Analyst interns from Summer Associates. Research Analyst interns are rising seniors pursuing bachelor’s degrees in quantitative disciplines, with strong academic performance, team skills, intellectual curiosity and ownership. [B3]
The firm says RA interns join consulting teams, work on real cases and work side by side with industry experts. Interns leave with hands-on experience, a professional network and a broader analytical skill set. [B3]
Summer Associates are different: they are generally one to two years from completing a PhD or are first-year MBA candidates in quantitative fields. They are expected to have strong quantitative skills and prior work experience. [B3]
The company’s Research Analyst career page provides context for the internship. Full-time RAs build models and written deliverables, work directly with experts and can use the role as preparation for graduate school or later careers in economics, finance, law, energy and other fields. [B6][B9]
Is it a fit?
Fit and trade-offs
Brattle is a strong fit for quantitative students who want economic consulting and are especially interested in energy, infrastructure, finance, antitrust, healthcare or regulatory economics.
Practice choice. Ask which matters the team expects to staff and how interns express a practice preference.
Workload. Ask which case or regulatory deadlines fall within the placement and how the team handles competing demands.
The Research Analyst career ladder. Ask about advancement and graduate-school expectations; Brattle’s RA career material describes several possible next steps, not one promised promotion path. [B9]
Location and pay. Current pay is explicitly available for New York and San Francisco, but other locations require direct verification.
Work, teams and company background
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At a glance
Evidence snapshot: 2026-09-04. This is a dated research summary, not a live vacancy feed.
Program: Research Analyst Intern and Summer Associate are distinct summer tracks. [B3]
Apply: Use the direct role and office; the source does not establish a universal duration or deadline. [B3][B4]
Eligibility: RA: rising seniors in quantitative bachelor’s fields. Associate: PhD candidates one-to-two years from completion or first-year MBAs. [B3]
Locations: Pay example covers New York/San Francisco; other offices require their own terms. [B4]
Routes: Energy/regulation; antitrust; financial analysis; IP/damages; healthcare; infrastructure. [B2]
Distinctives: Research Analyst Intern is the undergraduate route; Summer Associate is for PhD/MBA candidates. [B3]
Prepare: Defend quantitative research and a case using economic evidence; choose a practice-specific question rather than generic consulting drills.
Antitrust And Competition
Brattle’s Antitrust & Competition practice handles merger review, price fixing, collusion, monopolization, exclusion, bundling, tying, predation and other competition matters. The firm says many experts have prior DOJ or FTC experience and describes an approach built around close expert involvement, lean staffing and direct client access. [B8]
An intern can support market research, data analysis, regression, merger economics, pricing analysis, damages or preparation for expert testimony. The work rewards students who understand microeconomics and can use data without overstating causality.
A strong proof asset is a public competition analysis. Define a market, explain substitutes, measure concentration or pricing and state what data would change the conclusion.
Energy, Electricity And Regulatory Economics
Energy is one of Brattle’s defining practices. The current practice list includes Electricity Litigation & Regulatory Disputes, Electricity Wholesale Markets & Planning, Environment & Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Oil & Gas and Regulatory Economics, Finance & Rates. [B2]
Students can work on wholesale power markets, utility regulation, resource planning, investment, contracts, damages, rate design, transmission, decarbonization or infrastructure economics. This makes Brattle particularly relevant for economics, engineering, energy, operations-research, math and finance students.
A strong candidate should understand one energy system well enough to explain the physical and economic constraints. A power-market analysis should distinguish demand, capacity, fuel, transmission, market design and regulation.
Financial Services, Securities And Structured Products
Brattle’s finance-related practices include Accounting; Credit, Derivatives & Structured Products; Financial Services & Markets; M&A Litigation; Private Equity, Venture Capital & Hedge Funds; Regulatory Investigations & Enforcement; and Securities Class Actions. [B2]
Intern work can involve valuation, market behavior, damages, financial instruments, disclosure, trading or regulatory matters. Students should be comfortable with financial statements and quantitative analysis but also with documentation and source integrity.
A complex model is only useful if the analyst can explain what economic question it answers. Candidates should be able to state the counterfactual and sensitivity.
Bankruptcy And Restructuring
Brattle’s Bankruptcy & Restructuring practice combines industry expertise with financial, economic and statistical analysis for debtors, creditors, courts, trustees and governments. [B2]
This can involve valuation, solvency, damages, capital structure, claims or disputes rather than hands-on turnaround management. Students interested in restructuring should distinguish economic expert work from operational restructuring at firms such as AlixPartners or A&M.
A strong preparation project might analyze the valuation and liquidity of a distressed business and explain which assumptions drive the result.
Healthcare And Life Sciences
Brattle’s Healthcare & Life Sciences practice handles antitrust, data privacy, government investigations, fraud allegations, bankruptcy, securities litigation, patent disputes and tax or transfer-pricing matters. [B10]
The firm says it can use massive healthcare data sets containing billions of observations and combines healthcare expertise with economic, financial and statistical methods. [B10]
Healthcare students should therefore prepare both sector context and analytical methods. A hospital merger requires patient flows and competition. A drug-patent dispute requires product, market and IP context. A data-breach damages analysis requires information-security and economic reasoning.
Intellectual Property And Technology
Brattle’s practice list includes Intellectual Property and Technology, as well as Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets and Consumer Protection. [B2]
Technical students can add product and system understanding to economic damages, market analysis or regulatory questions. The work is not a software-engineering role by default. The analyst studies technology as part of a dispute, market or policy question.
A useful technical project explains the technology, economic value, alternatives, users and evidence needed to estimate harm or market effects.
Private Equity, Venture Capital And Hedge Funds
Brattle explicitly maintains a Private Equity, Venture Capital & Hedge Funds practice. [B2] This can involve valuations, disputes, transactions, fund economics, damages or regulatory issues.
Students interested in investing should not assume the RA role is direct investing. Brattle provides economic and financial consulting to parties in high-stakes matters. The skill development is analytical and advisory.
International Arbitration And Infrastructure
Brattle’s International Arbitration and Infrastructure practices can involve asset valuation, regulatory changes, contracts, sovereign disputes and large capital projects. [B2]
This work can be attractive to students interested in international economics, infrastructure, energy, project finance or public policy. The analytical task can involve counterfactual valuations under complex legal and regulatory environments.
Research Analyst Career Model
Brattle’s full-time Research Analyst page is useful for understanding the internship. RAs build robust economic and financial models, formulate written deliverables, conceptualize project work and sometimes coauthor publications or participate in presentations. [B6]
The firm looks for strong quantitative backgrounds in economics, mathematics, engineering, operations research, computer science or statistics and values client interaction, curiosity, quality and adaptability. [B6]
Brattle describes Research Analyst as a launching point for multiple careers. Former RAs pursue graduate school and roles across economics, finance, law, energy and other fields. [B9]
An employer-curated RA profile describes a former Brattle intern who returned full-time and now works on competition matters involving data analysis and junior-team management. Another RA profile describes financial modeling for arbitration disputes. These are selected examples, not a representative staffing distribution. [B6]
Candidate evidence that changes preparation
A July 10, 2026 RA-intern candidate account mentions behavioral interviews and case studies; a separate New York RA account mentions profitability and intellectual-property damages. These are useful case-preparation signals, not a fixed summer-intern sequence. [B11][B12]
Before accepting the assignment
Ask how much practice choice an RA intern receives, who reviews the work and what the likely return route is.
Firm and practice model
Brattle describes itself as a privately held firm that answers economic, financial and regulatory questions for corporations, law firms and governments. It distinguishes itself through expert credibility and the application of analytical methods to disputes, policy and business decisions. [B1][B5]
Research Analysts are critical members of project teams. Brattle says RAs work directly with experts, build economic and financial models, formulate written deliverables, conceptualize project work and may coauthor publications or participate in client presentations. Some RAs specialize in one industry; others seek broad project exposure. [B6]
This is a useful difference from firms where juniors are separated from experts by many management layers. In antitrust, Brattle explicitly describes leanly staffed teams and direct client access to the full project team. [B8]
Practice choice still matters. An energy analyst can spend time on power markets and regulatory economics. An antitrust analyst can work on mergers and competition litigation. A finance analyst can work on structured products, securities or valuation. A health-care analyst can work on antitrust, bankruptcy, securities, privacy, fraud or patent questions. [B2]
Research context
Brattle’s undergraduate route is Research Analyst Intern, not Summer Associate. The latter targets PhD and MBA candidates. For either track, choose a genuine practice interest: an energy-regulation model and an intellectual-property damages analysis require different preparation. [B2][B3]