How Brattle Australia Leverages Local Insight, Novel Thinking & Global Reach
The Brattle Group’s Sydney office draws on more than 30 years of experience in Australia, combining deep local expertise with global reach to support clients in complex disputes spanning a wide range of practice areas and jurisdictions. Our team brings together interdisciplinary expertise, access to leading experts, and a forward-looking approach to emerging litigation challenges – underpinned by a culture of rigour, judgement, and innovative thinking.
Integrated Local Expertise
Our Sydney office brings together expertise in corporate finance, governance, economics, forensic accounting, and data analytics within a single, integrated local team. In recent years, we have assembled a unique group of Australian-based specialists with deep experience in high-stakes litigation and complex consulting engagements.
Brattle’s Principals and Associates are not only experts in their own right but are also closely connected to leading practitioners and academics in their fields. This combination allows us to act as trusted advisers – helping clients define the expertise required at the outset of a matter, and then identifying, securing, and supporting the right expert throughout the engagement.
Access to Leading Experts
Brattle’s Sydney office provides direct access to highly specialised expertise, rather than relying on a static list of candidates. We are skilled at identifying exceptional and hard-to-find experts, including Australian and international academics and industry specialists who may not be regular witnesses. Our office has extensive experience supporting both seasoned and first-time experts.
Through Brattle’s Sydney office, Australian lawyers gain access to leading Australian and international experts – including those from the top academic and professional institutions – while retaining the benefit of local experience. Our expert network runs deep, and many of our experts are former colleagues or collaborators, enabling us to assess not only subject-matter expertise but also judgement, communication style, and effectiveness under cross-examination.
Solving Complex and Novel Problems
Many of the disputes we work on raise issues that don’t have standard answers, spanning areas such as complex financial instruments, digital assets, competition matters, valuation, and large-scale class actions. We draw on a wide range of analytical frameworks across economics, finance, accounting, and data science, giving us multiple ways to structure a problem.
At the same time, we are not limited to any single framework. Instead, we take a lateral, interdisciplinary approach – working across practices, jurisdictions, and disciplines, and drawing on decades of experience from landmark cases and consulting engagements around the world. Combined with the latest research, deep data expertise, and practical insights from our consultants and government and industry experts, this approach helps us frame, test, and explain issues in ways that are both purposeful and persuasive in the Australian context.
Preparing for Future Litigation Challenges
While the fundamentals of good expert work – clear thinking, rigorous analysis, and persuasive arguments – remain constant, the landscape of litigation continues to evolve. Through our involvement in leading disputes across jurisdictions, we often encounter new issues, tools, and theories years before they reach Australia, allowing us to anticipate and prepare for what’s next.
As financial and economic issues in litigation become more complex, we are investing in emerging technologies and advanced analytics that help lawyers quickly navigate new industries and large, disparate data sets. The ability to extract early insights and test hypotheses rapidly is a significant advantage for both lawyers and experts. Combining forward-looking tools with the judgment and experience necessary for a given matter enables us to support increasingly complex disputes and build long-term relationships with Australian clients.
