Providing forensic expert advice and reporting on the role of an insolvency practitioner • Providing forensic expert advice and reporting on practices within the finance market in relation to when companies enter insolvency • Providing forensic expert advice and reporting on insolvency practitioner fees • Providing forensic expert advice and reporting on financial documents and the application of them for use in criminal, civil or matrimonial proceedings

Forensic Accountant • Expert Witness • Expert Determiner I accept instructions covering: • Forensic accounting reports for claimant & defendant actions • Professional negligence claims - accountancy & auditing • Commercial disputes - business disputes, partnership disputes, consequential loss, share valuations, breach of contract, business interruption • Personal injury - loss of earnings, consequential loss • Theft & false accounting Specialising in criminal matters: • Fraud, money laundering, proceeds of crime, confiscation...

• Expert Witness appointments • Contract, share purchase agreements and other disputes • Shareholder disputes • Loss calculations in commercial disputes • Contentious and non-contentious company valuations • Matrimonial financial proceedings, including company valuations • Financial investigations • Financial tracing • Fraud investigations • Criminal defence instructions

Forensic accountant specialising in crime & proceeds of crime, including theft (including theft from employer), fraud (including mortgage fraud & benefit fraud), money laundering & confiscation (under Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 & earlier legislation) • Preparing expert witness reports & giving evidence in Crown Court, Magistrates' Court or High Court

• Registered as an independent expert forensic reporter for business interruption claims, accredited by HMRC and regulated by the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT). • Providing services to clients regarding lease property office equipment. • Analysing client's contract terms, company car leases, etc. • Providing an independent expert opinion within the area of expertise on the subject matter in accordance with the instructions given. • Providing opinion in the form of a report and/or evidence before...

Criminal litigation support • Tax cheat • Benefit, VAT & duty fraud • Money laundering offences • Proceeds of Crime Act • Commercial fraud • Drugs offences • Civil matters, including: divorce settlements, partnership disputes, valuation of business, loss of earnings claims

Extensive experience in the preparation of expert witness reports to law enforcement, public authorities, barristers and solicitors. I have the benefit and insight of investigations undertaken from both a prosecution perspective and defence responses, having worked at West Yorkshire Police Economic Crime Unit and the NE RART before joining a private practice undertaking both types of work. • Pre-trial criminal investigations • POCA and confiscation • Theft • Money laundering • Fraud • Forensic accountancy

Christopher is Head of FRP's Forensic Services practice. He brings over 25 years of experience of forensic accounting, including acting as an expert witness. His work covers disputes, fraud, bribery and corruption investigations, asset-tracing and recovery investigations, regulatory inquiries and compliance and risk advisory assignments. He has been cross-examined on multiple occasions in the High Court and International Arbitration Tribunal.

I undertake expert witness and advisory forensic accounting work, as well as delivering investigation-responsive assignments. I am instructed on cases in civil, family and criminal proceedings, as well as being appointed as a single joint expert, where I have given oral testimony in court. These matters may involve the following: • Consequential loss calculations • Insured loss assessments • Shareholder, partnership and matrimonial disputes • Intellectual property disputes • Breach of warranty and contract claims •...

Business & share valuations • Investigation & quantification of loss, including business interruption, loss of earnings & loss of profits • Partnership & director disputes • Section 994 disputes • Criminal & commercial fraud investigations • Professional negligence of auditors & accountants • Asset tracing in matrimonial cases • Breach of warranties • Corporation tax investigations Stevenage Office: Wilder Coe Ltd, Business and Technology Centre, Bessemer Drive, Stevenage , SG1 2DX. DX: 6015 Stevenage