Brattle’s experts are regularly brought in to assist with high-profile, high-stakes disputes and international arbitrations. Brattle has been engaged in dozens of investor-state arbitrations, working on behalf of both investors and states, involving assets located in Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Outside of disputes, they regularly provide commercial and regulatory advice to clients on energy and infrastructure projects around the globe.

The firm’s finance- and securities-related work focuses on a variety of issues such as tax and transfer pricing, commercial transactions, due diligence, structured finance, risk management, business and asset valuation, pricing of services, industry custom and practice, profitability, and cost of capital issues. Brattle’s experience spans a range of engagements involving commercial lending, mortgage securitization, securities trading and risk management, custody of securities, hedge fund administration, securities fraud, tax disputes, credit crisis litigation, broker/client investment suitability and foreseeability, and bankruptcy and ability to pay.

In the energy sector, it assists clients across a broad range of areas, including renewable and alternative, natural gas, petroleum, and nuclear. The firm assists investor-owned utilities, public utilities, electricity and pipeline customers, power generators, transmission organizations, and regulatory authorities with planning, regulation, and litigation efforts. The firm also has growing practices in integrated resource planning, energy storage, and the design and implementation of "Utility of the Future" initiatives. 

Brattle's Brains

Brattle refers to its consultants collectively as a team, and its chain of command is structured flatly to encourage input from individuals of any level. Brattle's principals are longtime experts in their respective areas, with advanced degrees in economics, finance, management, and engineering from top universities around the world. Its cadre of senior principals includes Nobel Laureate Daniel McFadden of the University of California, Berkeley & University of Southern California; and Stewart Myers of MIT's Sloan School of Management, coauthor of the graduate-level textbook: Principles of Corporate Finance.

The firm's experts also draw on a network of advisors that includes renowned academics and former government officials, such as the former chief economists for the US Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission, and deans and faculty at academic institutions such as MIT, Columbia, Duke University, NYU, The University of Chicago, Stanford, and London Business School.

Putting Its Money Where Its Mouth Is

When it comes to pro bono and community service efforts, Brattle’s belief in its core values—collaboration, integrity, performance, and respect—drives the firm’s commitment to a fair, impartial, and fact-driven judicial system. Their consultants partner with leading law firms’ pro bono committees as well as nonprofits such as the ACLU, the NAACP, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to provide expert testimony, reports, economic analyses, and data management. Brattle’s pro bono cases have involved issues as wide-ranging as criminal justice reform, voting rights, modern-day debtors’ prisons, and refugee resettlement. Numerous consultants cite their pro bono work among the highlights of their experience at Brattle.