“Providing clear, defensible answers to complex problems is an enjoyable challenge.”
Graham Davies
About
Graham is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in forensic accounting and audit. He specialises in providing independent expertise and advice to clients on complex loss and damages assessments and financial misconduct issues.
He has led and worked on a broad range of matters including joint venture and shareholder disputes, post-acquisition disputes, loss of profit claims, contractual disputes, class action litigation, and investigations into fraud, financial misstatement and employee misconduct.
His experience includes cases litigated in courts in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, and in arbitrations conducted under CIETAC, HKIAC, ICC, SIAC and UNCITRAL rules.
Prior to joining KordaMentha, Graham worked at a boutique expert witness and forensic accounting firm in the UK, an international consulting firm in Hong Kong and an Australian boutique consulting firm, having started his career with a Big 4 accounting firm. He has also worked with clients in several other countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Russia, South Korea, South Africa and the United States.
Expertise
- Independent and consulting expert roles
- Valuation of loss and damages
- Business valuation
- Financial investigations
Education and accreditations
- Bachelor of Science (Mathematics)
- Chartered Accountant
- Applied Valuation, Kaplan Professional
- Certificate III in Investigative Services
Significant Engagements
- Quantification of loss arising from the early termination of an Indonesian coal mine operating agreement
- Post-acquisition dispute relating to the acquisition of a South Korean consumer products company by an international private equity firm
- Shareholder dispute concerning amounts contributed to, and alleged misappropriations from, a Hong Kong-based group
- Quantification of loss arising from the infringement of a European pharmaceutical patent
- Assessment of whether warranted financial statements had been prepared in accordance with Korean International Financial Report Standards as part of a USD1 billion acquisition
- Special audit of the National Bank of Tajikistan
