Stocks & shares • The London Stock Exchange, including insider dealing, market abuse, mergers & acquisitions, share prices, corporate finance & valuations • Binary options, contracts for difference, spread betting, forex frauds & scams • Financial analysis, including financial statement analysis, insolvency & company valuations • Financial reporting, fraud & professional negligence issues • Money laundering issues & investigations • Forensic accounting, fraud investigations & Proceeds of Crime Act calculations • Foreign ...

Business valuation • Share valuation • Tax disputes • Tax professional negligence • Tax • Auditor professional negligence • Audit • UK GAAP • Financial reporting • Business valuation divorce • Commercial disputes • Business loss claims • Fraud • Business fraud • Officer fraud • Regulatory matters • Insurance claims • Shareholder disputes • Criminal matters

Consequential loss • Forensic accounting • Financial services complaints or claims

Colin has 30 years of experience working in the banking and financial world, having worked in investment banks for over 20 years. Throughout this time, Colin built up a huge array of knowledge of different aspects of trading and investing, which he deploys today as the author of expert reports. For the past 8 years, Colin has worked as a consultant and expert witness, providing expert reports on a whole wealth of banking and finance issues to the legal profession, for banking and corporate clients, and for the Crown Prosecution Service. Colin has testified and been cross-e...

Christopher leads S&W’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.

Chartered Management Accountant with over 25 years’ experience and a CIMA Certified Specialist Forensic Accountant. • Experienced across a wide range of sectors, with strong endorsements and repeat instructions from solicitors. • Independently vetted for reliability. • Has prepared over 200 expert reports. Business interruption • Loss of profits • Loss of income • Loss of earnings • Pension and investment losses • Business and share valuations • Increased cost of borrowing • Tax losses

Dr Culley has ~20 years' experience in financial markets. He has held senior roles in investment firms that are active in brokerage and trading activities, including three Category 1 Members of the London Metal Exchange, members of ICE Futures, Eurex, Euronext, the London Stock Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and a hedge fund. The roles undertaken include Chief Compliance Officer, Money Laundering Reporting Officer and non-executive director. Dr Culley founded C&G Regulatory Solutions in September 2021 and now works as a CILEX lawyer and consultant serving a broad ra...

Offices in London, Cheshire, Wiltshire, Cornwall Actively available for Legal Aid funded cases. Simon has 42 years of experience working in the banking and financial world, having worked in investment and wholesale banks for over 28 years. Throughout this time, Simon built up a huge array of knowledge of different aspects of banking, which he deploys today as the author of expert reports. For the past 15 years, Simon has worked as an expert witness, providing expert reports on a whole wealth of banking and finance issues to the leg...

Forensic accounting, including: • Money laundering, Proceeds of Crime Act and confiscation • Fraud and fraudulent trading • Personal injury and professional negligence • Loss of earnings and profits • Loss of future earnings • Loss of business value • Business interruption and consequential losses • Financial Services & Markets Act 2000 • Cryptocurrency • Medical negligence Family law, including: • Child Maintenance Service claims and appeals • Court of Protection and NHS continuing healthcare

Compliance with UK financial services rules & regulations • Financial planning matters, including pensions, investments, savings, life assurance & the advisory process & standards

Business and company valuation (single or joint instruction) • Share valuation • Shadow expert reports • Strategy and advice on valuation matters

• 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

Dmytro Tupchiienko is a forensic accountant (CPFA) and auditor (CQI/IRCA) focusing on risk and compliance issues and regulatory work. He has over 25 years’ experience having worked as a locum tenens for legal and professional services firms, including 'Magic Circle' and 'Big 4'. He is a Certified Expert Witness for civil cases and criminal cases in England and Wales' courts (holder of Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate) and in the courts of Scotland (holder of the University of Aberdeen Bond Solon Expert Witness Scheme). He holds memberships in both The Exper...

Forensic accounting • Contentious valuations • Damages quantification in litigation and international arbitration • International commercial and investment treaty disputes • Shareholder and joint venture disputes • Preliminary assessments of loss in contemplation of formal proceedings

• Registered as an independent expert forensic reporter for business interruption claims, accredited by HMRC, and regulated by the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) and HMRC. • Providing specialist expert analysis on motor finance agreements, including PCP and HP contracts, with detailed assessment of interest calculations, commission arrangements and compliance with the Consumer Credit Act 1974. • Producing independent expert reports for solicitors and counsel in disputes involving car finance mis-selling, discretionary commissions and reconstructed consume...

Investment banking • Corporate finance • Mergers & acquisitions • Public takeovers • Equity fund raising • Prospectus standards • Corporate governance • FSA/FCA regulation

Amy Francis leads the Digital Forensics practice at S-RM. She has extensive experience leading complex and high-profile digital forensics investigations into corporate and white-collar crime, and other disputes across a range of industries and jurisdictions. Amy has led numerous corporate investigations into intellectual property theft, fraud, employee misconduct and corruption. She also provides expert advisory and investigation services to HNWI and other private clients for litigation and bespoke investigations. This commonly relates to defamation and other reputation management, com...

Forensic accounting and litigation support • Professional negligence - accountants and solicitors • Fraud • Investigations • Commercial disputes • Business valuations • Proceeds of Crime Act

Over 10 years' experience as an expert for the court. Has given evidence in court on a number of occasions. • Pension loss - adults and minors • Loss of earnings • Loss of income reports • Accommodation (post RvJ) • Cost of financial advice • Periodical payments/PPO/Form of Award Reports • Settlement assessment reports • Fatal accidents; loss of dependency • Lost years claims • Financial modelling/planning • Cashflow analysis for court approval

David Clegg is an experienced practitioner, specialising in audit, forensic accounting and expert witness services. As Managing Director of a Top-75 Accountancy and Advisory Group, David has vast knowledge and expertise across a wide variety of business sectors. David has prepared several hundred expert witness reports to date and has experience in delivering evidence in court as an expert witness. Areas of specialism: • Forensic accounting • Loss of profits/earnings • Business valuations • Insurance claims, including business int...

All aspects of regulated financial advice, especially pensions and investments, including pension transfers and self-invested pension arrangements • General investment knowledge and impact of psychology and sociology on investor behaviour • As well as working in the financial sector and academic work, I have worked for the Pensions Ombudsman Service for many years

Sunday Times ‘Top Advisor’ 2021 Loss of earnings • Pension loss • Financial professional negligence • Financial advice • Cashflow analysis • Lost years • Loss of dependency • Periodical payment orders • Financial structure of award • Quantum I am the founder of Paladin Experts, a Fellow and Chartered Financial Planner who takes care to provide an accurate and honest approach. With over 30 years' financial expertise and having acted as expert witness on hundreds of occasions, I am well positioned to support claimants and...

Information technology • Technology • Telecommunications • Digital forensics • eDiscovery • IT fitness for purpose • IT outsourcing & project disputes • Project delay analysis • Patents & intellectual property rights • Software copyright • Computer forensics • Mobile forensics • Data recovery • Data security • Incident response • Data expert • Digital communications Jason Coyne is an expert information technology (IT) and digital forensics consultant with over 30 years' experien...

Consulting loss adjusting and related services to the insurance and claims market • Specialist in handling commercial and household insurance claim losses, including business interruption • Able to undertake investigations, reporting, quantum assessment, analysis, claims preparation, best practice assessments, insurance policy interpretation, review material and immaterial breaches of conditions and warranties • Distressed cases • Loss adjuster negligence

Private equity • Corporate finance • Capital-raising • Company valuation James Lewisohn has been engaged as an expert witness by: (i) the Crown Prosecution Service in R -v- Adrian John Eyre , regarding fraudulent capital-raising by a private company; and (ii) Peters & Peters LLP regarding aspects of the valuation of the Formula 1 racing business and its sale to CVC Capital Partners, in Constantin Medien -v- Bayerische Landesbank . Mr Lewisohn began his career as an investment banker with Bear, Stearns & Co ...

Have been ask to provide expert opinion on the following: • Equity release - Whether the advice process was correct and/or suitable and whether all alternative options had been explored. Also to assess whether the lender acted within the regulations. • Mortgages - Suitability of mortgage advice. • Pensions and investments - Suitability of pension advice, and whether a firm retains liability for ongoing advice. Suitability to switch pension products. Suitability of recommended investment solutions.

Matters involving trading, structuring, selling or advising upon following over-the-counter (OTC) financial derivatives: • Interest rate swaps & options • Foreign exchange swaps & options • Cross-currency swaps • Inflation swaps

Mis-sold pensions • Mis-sold finance contracts • Mis-sold mortgages

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

National Financial Expert Witness 20 years' qualified experience providing financial advice to retail, personal injury, clinical negligence and corporate clients • Tier 1 Registered Expert Witness with APIL • National expert witness status • I have prepared in excess of 400 claimant reports and joint statements for the court on the value of the loss of retirement benefits within personal injury and clinical negligence claims • Highly experienced in evaluating the suitability of the use of periodical payments in the structuring of awards • ...