Agronomy • Single farm payment • Advice on implementation of organic & environmental schemes • Providing appraisals & assessments on the restructuring of estates & farming businesses • Providing business plans for agricultural businesses & operations • Agricultural machinery operation • Dairy parlour operation • Grain storage • Aspects involving the operation & running of agricultural businesses • Fertiliser recommendations

Rural land & property advice • Farm business management • Freehold valuations & sales • Estate management & lettings • Rental valuations • Compensation for compulsory purchase • Pipelines & wayleaves • Forestry • Equestrian properties • Agricultural, forestry & environmental grants • Agricultural law, including Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, Town & Country Planning Act 1990, as amended by the Planning & Compensation Act 1991 • Management agreements

Appointments as arbitrator or mediator in financial disputes • Acting as expert in resolving the financial & quantum elements of litigation, including: • Personal injury • Consequential loss • Business interruption • Business & share valuations • Professional negligence • Matrimonial disputes • Expert opinion in relation to company law & technical matters • Forensic assignments in respect of fraud, tax investigations & conduct by directors

Chris Clements is a partner in Grant Thornton's Forensic & Investigation Services team working out of their Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle and Sheffield offices. He is an experienced forensic accountant, including expert witness, investigation and advisory work. He has a breadth of knowledge, including claims involving agriculture, business valuations, compulsory purchase orders, computerised investigations, criminal/fraud, consequential loss of profits, ...

Business valuations • Shareholder disputes • Loss of profit claims • Business interruption claims • Warranty disputes • Fraud investigations • Professional negligence • Matrimonial • Expert determination • Partnership disputes • Criminal defence • Security for costs • IT disputes • Royalty investigations • Intellectual property disputes • International arbitration

Business valuations • Shareholder disputes • Intellectual property disputes • Partnership disputes • Matrimonial issues • Personal injury • Criminal defence • Crime matters • Professional negligence • S994 matters • Fraud investigation & prevention • Expert determination • Commercial disputes • Warranty & contract disputes • Asset tracing • Insurance disputes & business interruption claims • Arbitration disputes

Director & Service Leader to BDO Stoy Hayward LLP's forensic accounting practice in Scotland • Almost 20 years' experience of providing oral and written evidence with a wide range of assignments, including business interruption, breach of contract, personal injury and professional negligence claims, share and business valuation disputes, completion accounts and warranty disputes and investigative experience (insider dealing, fraud, accounting misstatement, regulatory issues) • Has given evidence ...

Forensic accounting, including: • Claims for loss of profit & consequential loss • Partnership disputes • Contentious share & business valuations • Intellectual property claims & valuations • Professional negligence • Fraud investigation • Wrongful & fraudulent trading matters • Expert determination • S994 claims • Criminal matters, including false accounting • Matrimonial disputes • Personal injury claims

Gervase is the Head of Advisory at BDO LLP. He specialises in forensic investigations and litigation support, including expert determinations. Gervase is one of the most experienced accounting expert witnesses in the UK and takes an active role in legal cases and investigations. He has worked on hundreds of forensic investigations, including the initial investigation into the leading case of Caparo, and investigated and reported on the affairs of the MG Rover Group and Phoenix Venture Holdings ...