Case Study: Marex eliminates 90% of legal manual work and gains real-time accruals with Apperio

How Apperio helped Marex eliminate 90% of manual work for legal, and elevated internal and external relationships

Marex, a NASDAQ-listed (MRX) diversified global financial services platform, faced growing pains as it scaled: litigation and legal spend forecasting relied on delayed spreadsheets, FP&A lacked real-time visibility into WIP and accruals, and the legal team spent excessive time on manual admin and answering finance and auditor queries. The relationship with Apperio began around litigation work and expanded as Marex needed a more accurate, audit-ready way to track and project legal spend.

Apperio’s real-time legal spend platform automated data aggregation from 10+ international law firms, provided historic and live spend visibility, and enabled finance to self-serve accruals. As a result, Apperio eliminated 90% of manual legal admin, cut law‑firm invoice delays by 30%, sped up monthly accruals, reduced audit time/risk/cost, and improved law‑firm relationships and rate negotiation — allowing Marex to scale without adding resource.

Marex

Suzanne Joynes

Cost accountant