International Arbitration
As the volume and complexity of international disputes has increased over recent years, so has the demand for International Arbitration. Most arbitrated cases are, in essence, disputes about money which is why it is perhaps not surprising that forensic accountants are a common feature of the arbitral landscape.
International Commercial Disputes
Our experts across the globe can assist with all financial and accountancy aspects of international commercial disputes including:
- The assessment of loss of profits
- Quantification of economic damages and
- Commercial valuations
Expert Accountancy Testimony
Our organisation's litigation support team is available to provide expert accountancy testimony in proceedings governed by the rules of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the London Court of International Arbitration or the International Chamber of Commerce. Our forensic accountancy team accepts instructions as:
- party appointed expert adviser; or
- party appointed expert adviser and expert witness; or
- jointly appointed expert witness; or
- tribunal appointed expert witness
Specialist Industry Expertise
Specific details of the industry expertise of each team member are available upon request but between them they have acted in cases involving:
- Commercial agencies
- Supply contracts
- Distribution and license agreements
- Intellectual property disputes
- Joint ventures
- Breach of Warranty/Breach of contract claims
- Insolvency related disputes
- Government/state-owned agencies
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