Practico is a specialist consultancy focusing on costs in complex disputes, working with leading law firms on all aspects of costs resolution. The team is recognised for guiding clients through negotiations, mediations, and detailed assessments, and is particularly well regarded for its work in group litigation and collective actions, spanning data breach, product liability, and competition disputes. Co-head Andy Ellis is widely regarded as a go-to adviser on technical and strategic issues in high-value costs litigation. He is joined by Ed Marrow and Francesca Ellis, the latter noted for her expertise in handling costs claims and compiling and analysing high-value budgets in group, commercial, and media litigation.
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Accolades
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Key clients
- Arnold & Porter Baker & McKenzie LLP Carter-Ruck Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Clifford Chance CMS Cameron McKenna Cooley DAC Beachcroft DLA Piper DWF Fladgate Government Legal Department Gowling gunnercooke Herbert Smith Freehills LLP Kennedys Linklaters Mishcon de Reya Osborne Clarke Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP RPC Shepherd and Wedderburn Sheridans Signature Litigation Simmons & Simmons Simons Muirhead Burton Wiggin
Work highlights
Retained by the group of Defendants in the Grenfell Tower Litigation to coordinate and manage the costs process, following the successful ADR.
Engaged by Herbert Smith Freehills, CMS, Kennedys and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to prepare budgets in respect of the high-profile and complex Pan NOx Emissions litigation.
Instructed by Mishcon de Reya in respect of its work for the Federal Republic of Nigeria in a high-profile case concerning an oil and gas contract.
Practice head
Andy Ellis; Ed Marrow; Francesca Ellis
Other key lawyers
James Heawood; James Parr