Our Expertise
Kingston Smith LLP’s Forensic Accounting Services team provides consultancy and Expert Witness services to parties involved in business and financial disputes in the UK and internationally, and in criminal cases and professional regulatory matters.
We offer a dedicated and extensively experienced team of senior forensic accounting specialists. This experience has been gathered over many years and the effectiveness of our work has been proven time and again in cases that have gone to court or have been otherwise resolved.
Our experienced Experts are personally accustomed to giving written and oral evidence in court and before other tribunals including international commercial arbitrations. They are either party or jointly appointed and cases can be large, complex and high profile.
Kingston Smith is a top 20 firm of Chartered Accountants. We have the resources to undertake large scale multidisciplinary investigations or legal actions in the UK and internationally. These include:
- The extensive range of specialist and industry expertise available within the firm
- Its wide range of contacts with other expert consultants, for example economists, surveyors and IT consultants
- KS International, an association of independent accountancy firms, and the available specialist expertise worldwide.
Recommended
Our Experts are recommended by leading barristers and lawyers.
Instructions are regularly received from lawyers, insurers, corporate entities, accountants facing disciplinary proceedings, professional and regulatory bodies, and government agencies.
Our Experts are senior members of the following professional organisations:
- The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
- The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- The Academy of Experts
- The Expert Witness Institute
Experience
Kingston Smith’s Forensic Accounting Services team was established in 1980. Since then it has been engaged in a wide range of disputes including:
- Commercial disputes
- Sale of business disputes
- Shareholder/director disputes
- Compulsory Purchase Orders
- Partnership disputes
- Professional negligence
- Fraud and financial crime
- Matrimonial disputes
- Personal injury, fatal accident and medical negligence
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Other Services
Other services provided include: