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

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...

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.

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