Disputes & forensic accounting
Getting to the numbers that matter when the stakes are high
We’ve acted in some of Australia and Asia-Pacific’s most complex, high-profile commercial disputes, providing the independent financial analysis that helps courts, tribunals and parties understand what’s happened and what the impact is. Whether it’s a shareholder dispute, a class action or a breach of contract, we bring technically sound methodology and analysis that turns financial confusion into compelling evidence.
How we help
Informal proceedings:
- Acting as jointly appointed experts, party-appointed experts, or referees in litigation and arbitration.
- Serving as consulting experts to help you understand and respond to formal proceedings.
- Supporting pre-mediation, alternative dispute resolution, and expert determinations.
Across all types of disputes:
- Quantifying economic loss and financial impact in commercial disputes.
- Valuing businesses, shares, and intellectual property in contested situations.
- Tracing funds and assets, including cryptocurrencies and digital assets.
- Providing financial analysis for class actions and administering settlement distribution schemes.
- Calculating employee entitlements and identifying underpayments.
- Bringing clarity to large-scale, complex construction project disputes.
Sub-specialties
- Economic loss: We quantify the true financial impact a dispute has on your business or personal interests and provide well-considered, technically sound and direct analysis. This can be in a formal testifying role or as a consulting expert.
- Business valuations: Our specialists value businesses, shares and intellectual property in contested situations, ranging from post-acquisition battles and shareholder oppression claims to ATO disputes, family law matters and complex commercial claims.
- Class actions: We’ve worked on Australia’s largest class actions, from shareholder disclosure cases to mass tort claims and employee discrimination matters, to help plaintiffs and defendants understand the key details and figures. When it’s time to distribute settlements, we administer the process through our purpose-built EnterClaim platform, ensuring every claimant gets what they’re owed.
- Funds and asset tracing: We analyse financial transactions, records and publicly available data to trace exactly where funds have gone. Whether you need to prove liability, quantify losses or recover your money, we uncover the trail that leads to answers.
- Employee entitlements and underpayments: We help employers identify underpayments by recalculating employee entitlements against enterprise agreements and awards. Our EnterClaim platform streamlines the remediation process, and we’ve worked directly with the Fair Work Commission to ensure outcomes are fair for everyone involved.
