Secretariat is a global expert services and consulting firm built for the moments that matter most. Engaged by the top 100 global law firms and active on six continents, we bring together a carefully selected community of experts and advisors who thrive when the problems are most daunting and the pressure is highest. Ranked #1 in Global Arbitration Review's 2024 Expert Witness Firms' Power Index, we have earned the trust of government agencies, arbitration panels, regulators, legal counsel, and business leaders worldwide. Every engagement reflects one unwavering standard: the calibre of thinking that can only come from the most selective team in the field.

We are a team of high-performing experts, advisors, and analysts chosen with extraordinary care — because our clients face extraordinary circumstances. From intellectual property litigation and international arbitration to engineering, scientific consulting, and complex financial disputes, our people bring deep domain authority and real-world credibility to every assignment. We are very selective in whom we choose to join our team, and that selectivity is precisely what makes Secretariat the firm clients and counsel rely on when the outcome is not negotiable. Nine of our intellectual property experts have been individually recognised in the 2024 IAM Patent 1000, a testament to the individual excellence that defines us collectively.

Secretariat provides expert witness testimony, independent consulting, and advisory services across some of the most consequential disputes and decisions in the global economy. Our practice spans international arbitration, intellectual property, construction and engineering disputes, financial and economic analysis, and engineering and scientific consulting — including the critical research, analysis, and investigative work needed to answer why products fail and what that means for all stakeholders. Operating across six continents and engaged by the world's leading law firms, we translate highly technical complexity into clear, defensible conclusions that hold up in the most demanding legal and regulatory forums.

Our purpose is to stand beside clients at the moments of greatest consequence and give them what uncertainty cannot survive: rigorous, credible, and fearlessly independent expert analysis. We exist to make sure that when the stakes are highest — in an arbitration hearing, a courtroom, a regulatory proceeding, or a pivotal business decision — the quality of thinking on our clients' side is beyond question. That is not a positioning statement. It is the reason this firm was built and the standard against which we hold every engagement.

Secretariat was founded on the belief that genuine expertise is rare and worth protecting. We hold ourselves to a standard of intellectual rigour, independence, and integrity that cannot be compromised by the pressures of any engagement. We value the courage to reach and defend difficult conclusions, the discipline to do the analytical work that others find too complex, and the honesty to tell clients what they need to hear rather than what they want to hear. These are not aspirational principles — they are the admission criteria for joining this team and the daily standard of every expert who carries the Secretariat name.

Clients and counsel engage Secretariat because we have already proven ourselves in the rooms where it matters. Ranked #1 in Global Arbitration Review's 2024 Expert Witness Firms' Power Index and recognised across intellectual property, construction, financial, and engineering disciplines, our track record is built engagement by engagement. We are not a firm that deploys whoever is available — we are a firm where every expert is chosen because they are among the best in their field. That means our clients face hearings, tribunals, and regulators with experts who carry real authority, not just credentials. When Richard Manning's trial testimony contributes to a decisive victory in a $460 million trade secrets case, that is not an anomaly — that is Secretariat at work.

Secretariat's reach is genuinely global — engagements completed across six continents mean our experts are embedded in the legal, regulatory, and business communities that shape outcomes worldwide. We contribute to the development of the fields we work in, with our experts authoring articles in leading publications such as the International Construction Law Review and driving thought leadership on emerging issues — from the impact of large language models on dispute resolution to the evolving legal landscape of key international markets. Our presence in these conversations is not peripheral; it is part of how we remain at the frontier of expert practice.