UK
Ireland
- Post-completion M&A disputes (expert determination, disputed completion accounts, disputed earn outs)
- Contentious business valuation
- Shares and shareholder disputes
- Partnership disputes
- Contractual losses and loss of profits
- Professional negligence
- Contentious trusts and probate
Experience
Adam is an experienced chartered accountant who takes appointments as an expert witness in a wide range of commercial and private client cases covering business valuation, shares and shareholder disputes, loss of profits, trust disputes, contentious probate, financial mis-selling, professional negligence and general accounting and quantum matters. His forensic accountancy work stretches back over more than thirty years, and until 2024 Adam was an auditor of companies, charities and professional practices.
Adam is a specialist in post-completion M&A disputes where his work as a corporate finance advisor over twenty years, both as lead advisor on £multi-million sale and purchase deals, and on transaction support / financial due diligence projects, underpins his expertise. Adam is an experienced expert determination specialist and takes appointments both as determiner and as an expert supporting parties in the preparation of submissions to a third-party determiner. Cases span disputed completion accounts, earn outs and share valuations, with amounts in dispute ranging from £2m up to US$130m (over 100 items in dispute).
A graduate of Cambridge University, Adam has previously worked at a Big Four firm and over the course of his career, he has worked with lower mid-market SMEs, charities, professional practices, financial services businesses, banks, major international clients and sovereign governments.
Notable achievements
- Adam has given oral expert evidence before the English High Court and the Family Court
- He has been a non-executive director of the Buckinghamshire growth hub Buckinghamshire Business First since 2011
- Former Chair of the Network of Independent Forensic Accountants (from 2015 to 2020)
- Previous board member of the Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership
Professional qualifications/memberships
- Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
- Member of the Academy of Experts
- Member of the Expert Witness Institute
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