Specialist Areas

The BTG Advisory forensic services team have a proven track record in delivering independent, reliable and authoritative forensic accounting expertise in the resolution of business-related disputes.

We offer extensive advisory, expert witness and dispute resolution experience across many industries. The scope of our work includes:

• Financial investigation
• Asset tracing
• Quantification of damages including loss of profits
• Share valuation

Particular areas of specialism include

• Business Interruption
• Directors’ Misfeasance
• Fraud and Financial Crime
• M&A Disputes
• Matrimonial Disputes
• Partnership Disputes
• Personal Injury and Medical Accident
• Shareholder Disputes

Business Interruption

• Breach of contract or negligence
• Insurance claims (includes experience gained within the loss adjusting industry), for insureds or loss adjusters or insurers
• Statutory schemes for financial compensation (e.g. Water Industries Act)
  Compulsory purchase orders

 Directors’ Misfeasance

• Directors treating non-business expenditure as business expenditure
• Diversion of business
• Excessive management charges
• Fraudulent payments to dummy suppliers
• Improper payment of dividends and distributions, including accounting for provisions and contingent liabilities
• Misuse of directors’ loan accounts
• Profit siphoning through overcharging for goods and services by related suppliers
• Quantification of damages
• Transactions at undervalue, including the sale of shareholdings

Fraud and Financial Crime

• Criminal defence (Legal Aid)
• Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) investigations
• Employee theft (collating evidence for recovery and/or prosecution)
• Fraudulent conduct
• POCA
• Ponzi schemes
• Theft
• White collar crime

 M&A Disputes

• Completion accounts
• Warranty and indemnity claims
• Deferred consideration
• Purchase price adjustment
• Quantification of losses
• Share valuation

Matrimonial Disputes

• Financial investigations
• Liquidity
• Maintainable earnings
• Share valuation

Partnership Disputes

• Business valuation
• Final capital accounts
• Fraud
• Profit shares

 Personal Injury and Medical Accident

• Complex employee remuneration structures (members of the Armed Forces, teachers, medical professionals)
• Dependency claims
• Loss of earnings
• Loss of pension
• Schedules of loss
• Self-employed claimants

Shareholder Disputes

• Unfair prejudice claims (Section 994 Companies Act 2006)
• Valuation methods
• Minority shareholdings
• Past or present valuation dates