We provide economic analysis in breach of contract and business tort matters across commercial agreements, including customer and supplier arrangements, cloud and SaaS agreements, and technology licensing transactions. This work addresses disputes involving pricing, revenue-sharing, cost allocation, billing, exclusivity, termination, performance failures, and long-term supply commitments. We quantify lost profits, reasonable royalties, price differentials, and other measures of economic harm using rigorous methods grounded in both the contractual framework and the economics of the underlying business relationship.

We analyze disputes among founders, investors, and other stakeholders across private market structures, including founder and control disputes, fiduciary duty claims, and other conflicts. Our work includes evaluating investment and governance agreements and modeling complex capitalization tables. Our analyses align contractual rights with economic outcomes to assess valuation, allocation, and damages. Learn more about Brattle’s Private Equity, Venture Capital & Hedge Funds practice.

We support damages and valuation analyses in litigation and arbitration involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property assets. This work includes analyzing reasonable royalty and lost profits frameworks, licensing disputes, portfolio valuation, and complex IP transfer and migration issues. In technology and technology-enabled industries, our work addresses high-value software, platform, semiconductor, and data-driven IP, incorporating market evidence, competitive dynamics, and product and feature substitution patterns to quantify economic harm and inform dispute resolution. Learn more about Brattle’s Intellectual Property practice.

In disputes arising from mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions, we evaluate issues such as purchase price adjustments, earn-outs and contingent consideration, material adverse change claims, representations and warranties, deal valuation, post-closing adjustments, and alleged breaches of transactional covenants. We quantify economic impact and damages using appropriate methodologies grounded in the transaction context and informed by the economics of the underlying business and deal terms. Learn more about Brattle’s M&A Litigation practice.

We address matters involving alleged misstatements, disclosure claims, market manipulation, insider trading, and other asserted violations of securities laws at public and private companies, including technology and high-growth issuers. This work includes analyzing market efficiency, price impact, trading behavior, materiality, loss causation, and damages in shareholder class actions and related securities litigation. Learn more about Brattle’s Securities Class Actions practice.

We provide analysis in matters involving allegations of monopolization, market power, collusion, exclusionary conduct, and other competition issues to support merger reviews and in litigation and regulatory investigations across jurisdictions, including significant technology-sector antitrust matters. In digital and technology markets, we analyze platform economics, network effects, multi-sided markets, algorithmic pricing, innovation competition, and data-driven business models to assess market definition, competitive effects, and economic harm. Learn more about Brattle’s Antitrust & Competition practice.

We provide economic and financial analysis in distressed situations involving technology companies and other innovation-driven businesses, addressing valuation and solvency questions, intercreditor disputes, plan confirmation issues, and restructuring litigation involving priority and avoidance claims. Our work reflects a deep understanding of the economics of technology businesses, including user and unit economics, recurring revenue models, intellectual property, and R&D investment economics. Learn more about Brattle’s Bankruptcy & Restructuring practice.

In cross-border tax controversy and transfer pricing matters – including those involving digital platforms, enterprise software companies, semiconductor businesses, and other complex technology enterprises – we evaluate arm’s-length pricing and profit allocation for intellectual property, services, cost-sharing arrangements, and global supply chain structures. We also support clients in audits, competent authority proceedings, and dispute resolution. Learn more about Brattle’s Tax Controversy & Transfer Pricing practice.

We support internal investigations, government inquiries, and litigation with quantitative analysis of financial records, transactional behavior, incentives, and alleged misconduct. In technology and technology-enabled industries, our work addresses issues such as revenue recognition and reporting, pricing and rebate practices, incentive compensation, algorithmic behavior, and complex financial patterns that inform regulatory and enforcement evaluations. Learn more about Brattle’s White Collar Investigations & Litigation practice.

Drawing on Brattle’s cross-practice expertise, we support clients and policymakers in assessing competitive dynamics, pricing frameworks, market design, investment incentives, and the economic impact of proposed legislation or regulation in regulatory and public policy matters involving technology markets, digital infrastructure, and innovation-driven industries. Our work addresses issues affecting digital platforms, cloud and infrastructure services, communications networks, and emerging technologies, applying rigorous economic methods to inform policy development, regulatory proceedings, and stakeholder engagement.