forensic services

the forensic services we offer

From our Central London office the haysmacintyre forensic services team, led by technically skilled professionals, combines accounting, auditing, valuation and tax expertise to provide support in a variety of situations including:

• partner/shareholder disputes
• financial investigations
• matrimonial disputes
• professional negligence
• forensic accounting
• fraud investigation
• litigious and non-litigious dispute resolution

The team is experienced at sifting through financial information to provide clarity often through the preparation of clear and detailed expert report and have the commercial know-how to offer pragmatic advice to help resolve situations.

Expert witness services
Although a great deal of effort is usually taken to avoid court it may be the only way to reach a resolution. In such situations it is critical that experts understand every aspect of your claim as well as the complexities.

At haysmacintyre we appreciate how important it is for experts to understand their duties, role and responsibilities in relation to the expert work they provide.

The team is experienced in expert determination, advising at meditation, court procedures and presenting evidence under the pressures of the court room. Supporting our expert witnesses we also have a team of specialists assisting in the preparation of reports.

could you be affected? a small sample of assignments the team has been involved in

partnership withdrawal - expert witness
Acted as an expert witness on behalf of a firm of Chartered Surveyors, where one of the partners had been asked to leave.

The value of the goodwill in the partnership was in dispute and how the departing partner’s share of this could be paid.

Advice provided by the haysmacintyre team explained the basis of valuation and different tax treatment of the goodwill being paid out as a single capital sum or delayed over a period of years.

divorce hearing – expert witness
Acted as an expert witness in a divorce hearing where the divorcing couple were shareholders of a family company. At dispute was a number of profit extraction transactions that had taken place of the past few years.  The team’s work involved investigating all the transactions and calculating what the correct tax treatment should have been, thereby arriving at how much “after tax” income had been received by each party.

We were also asked to provide expert commentary on the suggested split of the proceeds of the company on a subsequent sale to realise the value.