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Risk & Forensics

Supporting your needs in business valuations, transactional issues, dispute scenarios, loss quantification or financial crime investigation. We provide specialist risk advisory and forensic accounting advice to a wide variety of clients, including businesses, individuals, intermediaries and law firms, both regionally and nationally.

Forensic Accounting

Providing valuable support

Our extensive experience enables us to provide valued support when it’s needed. Whether you are contemplating, planning or have subsequent issues with an M&A transaction, are involved in a financial dispute, require a business valuation, face a regulatory enquiry or investigation, or have suspicions of fraud.

How can we help?

We can help you plan and prepare pre-emptively to identify and manage the risks and challenges of undertaking business to allow you to mitigate potential issues before they arise. The team will assist you in resolving these challenging and complex issues when such crises, conflicts and disputes occur.

Our particular areas of expertise are:

We find constructive solutions to corporate problems and give properly supported and independent expert opinions as required.

As we assist clients in a wide variety of cases, acting as both adviser and expert, often working alongside legal practitioners, our BHP colleagues and other experts, regardless of whether they are corporates, shareholders, in a partnership, sole traders or individuals, and irrespective of whether they are claimants, defendants, buyers or sellers. The team has also undertaken a range of instructions as single joint expert and acted as the independent expert determiner to adjudicate in completion accounts and share valuation disputes.

Why us?

Our highly experienced team have widespread experience gained within some of the world’s largest professional practices.  We pride ourselves on our quality and integrity, providing clients with an honest and straightforward view whilst remaining commercially aware. As an independent firm, you will receive personalised, local service with limited “Big Firm” problems such as regulatory and conflict issues.

As a member of NIFA (the National Network of Independent Forensic Accountants), whose membership consists of independent accountancy practices throughout the UK that specialise in forensic accountancy and litigation support, we are well placed to support you on what can be a stressful journey. Our membership of NIFA safeguards you as it sets quality standards and monitors members through an annual review of each firm’s working files. Tony Chapman is an ADR.net accredited mediator, and Philip Allsop is a member of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI) and is a panel member for the ICAEW President’s Appointment Scheme. We are also members of the Compulsory Purchase Association.

To discuss how our expert risk & forensics team could assist, either in general terms or in relation to a particular case, please call Tony Chapman on 0113 887 0070 or Philip Allsop on 0114 266 7171.

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