Cross Border Divorces
The Forensic Accountancy Group, part of global accounting network MGI Worldwide, has an international reach that makes it ideally-placed to offer expert, flexible and cost-effective litigation support services to matrimonial lawyers acting for clients whose financial affairs span several jurisdictions.
Our expert witnesses have considerable experience in advising on all financial aspects of divorce including:
- Complex international tax issues
- Asset tracing
- Valuations of family businesses
- Setting up, administering and dismantling trusts
- Pre and post-nuptial financial disclosure
- Collaborative Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution procedures
- Alimony/Maintenance disputes Income Determination
- Lifestyle/Marital Spending Analysis
- Marital Balance Sheet Construction
- Analysis of Corporate Benefits
- Assisting in Deposition and Trial Preparation
A flexible and cost-effective approach
Having to instruct different experts in different jurisdictions can become disproportionately costly even for relatively wealthy clients.
For that reason, our organisation has developed an approach that facilitates the instruction of a single expert (or single joint expert) in the jurisdiction in which the financial claim has been made. This “Lead” expert, then works with other MGI Worldwide members in other jurisdictions who assist with the collation of financial information and who advise on local financial, tax or accounting issues.
The Lead expert then prepares a report, which although reliant on the information and local knowledge of our members in other countries who have assisted in its preparation, expresses opinions that are exclusively those of the Lead expert. This avoids the cost of having to import foreign expert witnesses for the purposes of cross-examining them.
Meet our global team of Forensic Accountancy experts
Our Global Forensic Accountancy Experts have specialist expertise in the various areas of accountancy and detailed knowledge and understanding of the legal process. They can help preserve family wealth across generations - wherever in the world you need it.
For more information and to be connected to the relevant specialist, please contact Nicki Lynn at [email protected].
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Roger Isaacs
Qualifications, training and accreditation
- Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (“ICAEW”) (1992)
- Fellow of the ICAEW (2002)
- Licensed insolvency practitioner (1996)
- CEDR Accredited Mediator (2000)
Past and Present Positions
I have been a Partner of Milsted Langdon LLP since 1999 having joined the firm in 1993, on qualification as a chartered accountant. In 2015 I was appointed vice chair of the MGI Global Accountancy Network.
Principal professional specialisms
My responsibilities in the firm include heading up the forensic and litigation support team. I have been a practicing licensed insolvency practitioner for nearly 20 years.
I am involved in the management of my firm and have particular expertise in business valuation, fraud and the financial and commercial affairs of small and medium sized enterprises (“SMEs”).
I have provided expert accountancy evidence in approximately five hundred cases and have been cross-examined on many occasions in a variety of courts and tribunals.
Other professional responsibilities
I am the vice chair of the ICAEW’s forensic faculty known as the “Forensic Special Interest Group” and am the national technical director of the Network of Independent Forensic Accountants (“NIFA”).
I am also a member of the ICAEW’s President’s Appointment Panel in which capacity I am regularly appointed to undertake expert determinations.
Membership of professional organisations
I am a fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (1996), a member of the Expert Witness Institute and have been a member of the Academy of Experts since 2004.
I am the Treasurer of the Association of South West Mediators and a member of its Civil and Commercial Mediation Panel.
Training, qualifications and accreditations as an expert witness
I am an ICAEW Accredited Forensic Accountant and Expert Witness and in 2013 I was accredited by the Academy of Expert to undertake Expert Determinations (2013).
I regularly attend technical conferences and lecture to the legal profession on a range of accountancy-related topics. I write regularly on forensic accountancy matters and my articles have been published in such periodicals as the New Law Journal and Legal & Medical magazine.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- +44 (0) 203 150 1113
Peter Daniel
Qualifications, training and accreditation
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (qualified 1990, Fellow 2003)
Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
Past and Present Positions
Present:
Consultant, Milsted Langdon LLP,
Past:
Consultant, Moore Stephens LLP, June 2014 to November 2018;
Principal, Fairlead Forensic Accounting, October 2010 to June 2014, UK
Senior Claims Consultant, TPA Godfreys, Christchurch, NZ, May 2012 to November 2012;
Director, LECG (Legal & Economic Consulting Group), May 2009 to September 2010.
BDO Stoy Hayward LLP, Partner Forensic Accounting group 2003 to 2009, Senior Manager, 1996 to 2003
KPMG, Assurance practice 1987 to 1991, manager Forensic Accounting 1992 to 1996
Dynamar: Credit analyst 1986 to 1987
E Gray: Shipbroker & Baltic Exchange representative, 1981 to 1984
Principle professional specialisms
Forensic Accounting and Accountancy Expert Witness
Disputes, Litigation and Arbitration, damages and financial oss, contractual and acquisition disputes
Membership of professional organisations
As above
Training, qualifications and accreditations as an expert witness
As above
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- +44 203 150 1113
Simon Denton
Past and Present Positions
Coopers and Lybrand
Ernst and Young
Milsted Langdon LLP since 2000
Principle professional specialisms
Personal taxation
Corporate taxation
Inheritance tax
Trusts
Taxation in divorce
Property tax
Provision of expert witness evidence on matters of taxation
Other professional responsibilities
Representative on the MGI UK and Ireland tax forum
Membership of professional organisations
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation
Diploma from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
Training, qualifications and accreditations as an expert witness
Experience of giving oral evidence in court
Provision of numerous court reports
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- +44 203 150 1113