Overview
As a full-service firm with in-depth understanding of all areas of law and experts in teams across the UK, we’re able to offer you effective solutions for a wide range of costs issues.
Whether it’s before the damages aspect of the underlying claim is resolved or after the damages are settled, we have the appropriate expertise to provide support to reach the best outcome for you.
We have dedicated resource within the team ensuring we share and organise knowledge efficiently to keep you up to date with the latest developments. This means we can offer a complete service and handle large volumes as well as highly complex claims.
With dedicated costs teams specialising in paying party, receiving party and complex claims, we support you by being on hand to advise on all aspects of costs litigation from drafting points of dispute, to costs hearings and costs case management conferences.
We regularly assume conduct of costs proceedings, dealing with all aspect of the negotiation process and have the expertise and experience to conclude matters from ‘cradle to grave’.
Featured experience
- Personal injury costs recovery and the retreat from Cartwright, Ho and Harrison.
- Court of Appeal endorses fixed costs avoidance.
- Circuit Judge dismisses appeal and upholds laser hair removal fixed costs decision.
- HO v ADELEKUN: Supreme Court ruling to cause counterintuitive and unfair results for proceedings involving Qualified One-way Costs Shifting.
- Data Breach Costs And The Small Claims Track – Disrupting The Gravy Train.
- Medical Agency Costs Ruled Irrecoverable Under The Fixed Costs Regime.
Advocacy
Our in-house barristers chambers delivers quality in-house advocacy and advisory services.
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Aviation and aerospace
With significant global aviation expertise, we offer high-quality, specialist and cost-effective advice on any aviation-related insurance issues you face.
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Civil Liberties, Public Bodies and Specialist Liability
With many years' experience acting for the public and private sectors in these complex, and sensitive areas, we offer expert advice across discrimination and Equality Act claims, abuse and social services claims, unlawful detention, and Deprivation of Liberty claims (DoLS).
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Construction and Engineering Disputes
Our highly experienced global team delivers a consistent, quality claims experience across the full range of construction and engineering risks.
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Contingency and Event Cancellation
As leading lawyers in the insurance sector, we can advise on any issues relating to contingency claims and event cancellation/non-appearance claims.
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Costs
We deliver costs expertise for you with deep experience and use of knowledge that underpins our whole business.
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Counter Fraud
Our Counter Fraud team is the most digitally advanced in the UK with huge strength and scale comprising of 100 lawyers in all UK jurisdictions.
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Cyber and Data Risk
We provide a full-service solution, tackling the full spectrum of cyber and data risks faced, and insured, by our insurance sector clients.
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Data, Privacy and Cyber in Insurance
The combined skills of our Insurance Advisory and Data, Privacy & Cyber practices means that we are uniquely placed to advise on both legal and practical challenges.
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D&O and Financial Institutions
Our extensive experience from across the globe covers both financial institutions and commercial Director & Officers (D&O) matters.
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Employment Practices Liability
Our market leading employment practice includes a specialist Employment Practices Liability (EPL) team who support UK and global insurers
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Insurance Advisory
As a firm with insurance at the heart of its business, we understand the regulatory challenges faced by insurers, brokers and distributors.
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International Casualty
Our market leading team acts for primary and excess insurers and reinsurers in London, Europe, Bermuda and the US.
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UK Casualty
Our market-leading Casualty team acts for composite insurers, London market and run off insurers, providing deep and broad expertise across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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International Personal Injury
As a full-service law firm with global reach, we are market leaders in all aspects of international personal injury.
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Legal Indemnities
Our specialist Legal Indemnities team advises on claims against all types of legal indemnity policies. We also provide a claims-handling service.
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Life Sciences
Our life sciences team advises many of the UK’s leading pharmaceutical companies, medical device, software, and AI manufacturers, as well as consumer healthcare suppliers and their insurers.
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Marine, Energy and Transport
Our marine, energy and transport insurance practice has global expertise to advise you with practical and commercially focused advice.
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Motor
Our specialist insurance lawyers make up one of the largest national motor teams in the UK.
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Policy Wording
As a market leading specialist with a truly international platform, we advise the insurance sector on all product governance and policy wordings to help manage your risk.
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Political Risk, Trade Credit and Political Violence
We advise on the physical and financial impact of political risk, from war and terrorism to nationalisation, confiscation, expropriation and deprivation.
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Product liability, safety and recall
Our experts advise on all aspects of product liability, safety and recall and can help you manage the full range of risks involved.
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Professional Liability
Our leading professional liability team maintains an unparalleled reputation for protecting the interests of professional services firms.
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Property
We act for market leaders across sectors as diverse as commercial, residential, real estate, local authority, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, construction, energy and waste management. Our team is experienced in policy coverage disputes, subrogated recoveries, defence of property damage claims and reinsurance disputes.
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Reinsurance
With a unique position in the reinsurance market, as long-term trusted advisers for the insurance sector, we deliver innovative solutions with a commercial perspective.
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Strategic Advisory
Our strategic advisory team uniquely offers market insight on reforms together with commercial and regulatory advice in the claims space.
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Transactional liability
As a leader in the insurance sector, our transactional liability team provides a full range of services to transactional liability insurers.
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Travel and tourism
Our team handles travel and tourism claims with an international focus. We act for overseas and UK motor liability insurers, overseas hotels, airlines, and more.
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The Cost Team at DAC are leaders in their field. Strong leadership drives forward an impressive spectrum of costs work, from strategic initiatives to fixed cost arguments.
Erica Bedford, Barrister from Kings Chambers
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The team at DAC Beachcroft are a pleasure to work for. They identify the key points every time, their analysis is spot on and they are always at the top of their game.
Jamie Carpenter, Barrister from Hailsham Chambers
Who we are
Why choose DAC Beachcroft?
We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.
Insurance
DAC Beachcroft is recognised as a pre-eminent advisor to the insurance market, and we place a strong emphasis on the long-term relationships we build with you so that we can really add value to your business.
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Health and Social Care
DAC Beachcroft is regarded as market leaders in the provision of corporate, commercial and regulatory legal advice to healthcare providers.
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Real Estate
With 170 lawyers we are one of the largest Real Estate legal teams in the UK. Our extensive network gives us national, regional and local knowledge and access.
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Financial Services
We regularly advise product designers and manufacturers, trade bodies, and retailers, distributors and venture capitalists looking to invest in the financial services sector.
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Technology
As long-standing and trusted advisers in the technology sector, we deliver pragmatic and innovative solutions that empower you to make informed decisions about how best to maximise your success.
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Industry Specialisms
We combine our in-depth sector knowledge with astute commercial awareness and global reach.
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