“My focus is on assisting clients to find cost-effective answers to complex problems.”
Ben Mahler
About
Ben’s willingness to understand the problem and generate alternative ideas has helped him find efficient solutions for clients facing modern forensic challenges for over 15 years.
He expertly deploys his specialist accounting, valuation and technology skills as needed, focusing on what will provide the greatest benefit with the least resources. This often involves undertaking complex financial analysis on economic loss claims and business valuations, or leveraging technology to automate the analysis of large and disparate data sets.
Ben has acted as a consulting and independent expert on legal disputes in a number of jurisdictions across Australia and in Singapore.
Expertise
- Disputes and expert witness
- Forensic accounting
- Business valuation
- Data analytics
- Financial and non-financial investigations
Education and accreditations
- B. Commerce/B. Information Systems
- Grad. Dip. in Applied Finance
- Grad. Dip in Data Science
- Chartered Accountant
- CA Business Valuation Specialist
Significant Engagements
- Assisting the head contractor of a multi-billion construction project understand and present cost information for multiple disputes including change requests, litigation and international arbitrations
- Verification and analysis of costs for a contractor seeking to recover significant cost overruns on a billion-dollar construction project
- Extraction and analysis of shareholder data on a number of securities class actions for both plaintiffs and defendants
- Quantification of a defendant’s exposure to a consumer lending class action involving hundreds of thousands of potential claimants
- Valuation of shares and other assistance in a number of multi-million dollar shareholder oppression actions and mediations
- Secondments to AMP Ltd and BP Ltd to assist on anti-fraud and anti-money-laundering activities
