What The Brattle Group does

The Brattle Group, Inc. is a privately held global economic, financial, and regulatory consulting firm founded in 1990 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm employs approximately 500 professionals across 10 offices in North America (Boston, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto), Europe (London, Madrid, Rome), and Asia-Pacific (Sydney), with wholly-owned subsidiaries in Canada and the UK. Brattle serves three primary client segments: law firms requiring expert economic testimony and analysis in complex litigation; government regulatory agencies (SEC, DOJ, FERC, state utility regulators) needing objective economic input for enforcement and policy decisions; and corporate clients across energy, financial services, healthcare, technology, and infrastructure needing independent expert analysis.

Brattle's core offering is expert consulting and advisory services delivered through senior experts and principals across 24 practice areas, including Antitrust & Competition, Securities Class Actions, Electricity Litigation & Regulatory Disputes, International Arbitration, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy & Restructuring, Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets, Tax Controversy & Transfer Pricing, and White Collar Investigations. The firm's underlying capability combines state-of-the-art analytical techniques (including sophisticated data analytics) with practical industry experience, supported by a roster of academics and industry specialists who provide expert testimony, written analyses, and strategic advice. The firm maintains wholly-owned subsidiaries (The Brattle Group Canada ULC and The Brattle Group Limited) and has received recognition including the 2026 Global Competition Review "Outstanding Firm for Competition Economics" designation.

The business model is professional services on an engagement basis: revenue is generated through project-specific consulting, expert testimony, and advisory work, with pricing quoted per engagement and not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market motion is sales-led, leveraging direct expert engagement with enterprise clients (corporations, law firms, and government agencies) and amplified through thought leadership channels including white papers, publications, the Brattle Exchange podcast, conference speaking, and earned media. Marketing is anchored on the academic credentials and industry experience of Brattle's experts, with a published portfolio of research findings (e.g., over $6.8B in False Claims Act recoveries analyzed in FY25, $100B+ in potential grid utilization savings, $3.24T economic benefit quantified from fiber deployment) that reinforce credibility and drive inbound demand.

Name

The Brattle Group

Legal name

The Brattle Group, Inc.

Website

https://brattle.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

The Brattle Group is a global economic and financial consulting firm providing expert testimony and analysis across 24 practice areas to corporations, law firms, and government agencies, with approximately 500 professionals in 10 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Expert Consulting and Advisory Services: Professional services revenue generated through expert testimony, economic analysis, and consulting engagements for litigation support, regulatory proceedings, and arbitration. Services are provided to corporations, law firms, and government agencies on complex economic, financial, and regulatory matters.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Brattle Group provides expert economic, financial, and regulatory consulting services to corporations, law firms, and governments worldwide. Its engagements are led by senior academics and industry specialists who deliver written analyses, expert testimony, and strategic advisory work for litigation, arbitration, regulatory proceedings, and complex business matters across 24 practice areas.

Product overview

The Brattle Group is a global economic and financial consulting firm providing expert analysis and testimony for litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters. The firm offers a unified portfolio of advisory services across 24 practice areas spanning securities litigation, white collar investigations, antitrust, electricity regulation, international arbitration, intellectual property, bankruptcy, and tax. Their core offering consists of specialized consulting engagements led by academic experts and industry specialists who provide written analyses, expert testimony, and strategic advice to corporations, law firms, and government agencies worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Brattle Exchange Podcast: A podcast featuring Brattle consultants as speakers, presenters, and authors discussing economic and regulatory topics.

Products and services

• Securities Class Actions

Quantifiable outcome

• Over $6.8 billion in False Claims Act recoveries for clients in FY25
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered minor, significant and core.

• Clean Energy CanadaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2026Study commissioned by Clean Energy Canada and conducted by Brattle Group suggesting Ontario can reduce power grid upgrade costs by 5% to 11% over 20 years through distributed energy resources.
• Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratorysignificantStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on US electricity prices with Brattle Group and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory finding that U.S. electricity prices largely tracked inflation from 2019–2024 but rose faster in 2025.
• UplightcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrattle Group prepared report for Uplight on demand-side capacity, finding that a representative utility in the Southwest Power Pool could unlock an additional 90 MW of demand-side capacity by 2030.
• Utilize CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrattle Group commissioned by Utilize Coalition and GridLab to analyze grid utilization strategies that could save consumers over $100 billion in the next decade.
• Wireless Infrastructure AssociationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrattle Group study commissioned by Wireless Infrastructure Association quantifying the fallout from DISH's spectrum exit: over $9 billion in contracted tower revenues at risk.
• EnergyHubcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrattle Group report commissioned by EnergyHub demonstrating how active managed charging technology can reduce strain on electrical grids and save up to $400 per EV annually.
• Beyond Fossil FuelsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrattle Group and Acousmatics prepared report for Beyond Fossil Fuels on clean flexibility technologies to reduce dependence on gas in European power systems.
• DragoscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrattle Group and Dragos co-authored white paper on cybersecurity threats against battery energy storage systems, finding cybersecurity safeguards remain inadequate as deployments grow 20-45% over next five years.
• ev.energycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch from ev.energy and Brattle Group found managed EV charging programs could generate $30 billion in annual utility savings by 2035.
• Fiber Broadband Association and Frontier CommunicationsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrattle Group economic analysis commissioned by Fiber Broadband Association and Frontier Communications quantifies $3.24 trillion economic benefit from fiber deployment to unserved areas.
• The Journal of FinanceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrattle Group and The Journal of Finance jointly award prizes in corporate finance, with first prize of $25,000 awarded for research on how rising mortgage rates affect household mobility.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• NERA Economic Consulting: NERA is a direct competitor in economic consulting and expert testimony, with comparable practices in antitrust, securities litigation, energy regulation, and transfer pricing. Both firms sell senior academic economists as expert witnesses to law firms and corporations.
• Compass Lexecon: Compass Lexecon is a direct peer specializing in economic and financial analysis for antitrust, securities, and international arbitration matters — closely mirroring Brattle's expert testimony and litigation support model.
• Analysis Group: Analysis Group is one of the largest private economic and financial consulting firms, with deep expertise in healthcare, antitrust, securities, and energy. It is highly comparable to Brattle in serving law firms and corporations with academic-affiliated experts.
• Charles River Associates: CRA is a publicly traded consulting firm offering economic and financial analysis in antitrust, energy, and financial services, directly competing with Brattle in expert testimony and regulatory economics engagements.
• Cornerstone Research: Cornerstone Research is a leading provider of economic and financial consulting in securities litigation, antitrust, and class certification matters — a closely comparable expert-driven firm serving many of the same law firm clients.
• Berkeley Research Group: BRG provides expert economic and financial consulting in litigation, regulation, and restructuring, with significant overlap with Brattle's bankruptcy/restructuring, antitrust, and securities practices.
• Secretariat International: Secretariat is a global expert services firm providing economic, financial, and accounting consulting in disputes and investigations — a direct peer in expert testimony and damages quantification work.

Broad incumbents

• FTI Consulting: FTI is a large publicly traded consulting firm offering a broad portfolio including economic consulting, forensic accounting, and restructuring — overlapping with Brattle in antitrust, securities, and energy but operating at much larger scale and breadth.
• AlixPartners: AlixPartners is a global consulting firm with strong practices in restructuring and disputes — overlapping with Brattle's bankruptcy/restructuring and litigation economics work, though its center of gravity is operational restructuring rather than expert testimony.

Emerging players

• Economists Incorporated: Economists Incorporated is a smaller economic consulting firm focused on antitrust, regulation, and litigation support — a niche, expert-driven peer with significant practice overlap but materially smaller scale than Brattle.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/thebrattlegroup
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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-brattle-group
• Instagraminstagram.com/thebrattlegroup

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles22 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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