David is a member of the Expert Witness Institute and has more than 16 years’ forensic accounting and expert witness experience. He is an experienced expert witness and advisor in civil, commercial and criminal cases and has been actively involved in many hundreds of engagements during his career. He works equally for claimants and defendants and as a single joint expert. David has given evidence (in person and virtually) in Court and tribunals more than 20 times in England and Scotland including in the High Court, the Court of Session, the Lands Tribunal and the Sheriff Court

Phil has specialised in forensic services since qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1999. He is instructed as an expert or advisor across a broad spectrum of cases, including shareholder disputes, matrimonial disputes, breach of warranty claims and completion account disputes, contractual or commercial disputes, professional negligence claims, business interruption claims and fraud investigations.

Edwina worked as a qualified M&A lawyer in London and Singapore for 7 years before relocating to London and starting her career in the insurance industry where she has advised corporates and sponsors on insuring a broad range of multijurisdictional, public and private transactions.

Russell read History at Cambridge University and then served for 14 years with the Royal Marines. His first step into the industry took him to Prudential Plc, before joining Diligence Inc, where he aided in aggressively growing the practice. Next came a move to Fulcrum Chambers LLP, Russell’s role here was to assess the adequacy of due diligence systems and reports. Seeing the demand for specialist, objective and timely professional intelligence, Russell founded Fulcrum Diligence as an independent provider of these services.

After graduating in Modern Languages and Business Studies from Swansea University, Esther began a research career that now spans more than two decades. In 1998, she became Head of Research at fraud investigation specialist Maxima. In 2000 she was one of the founding members of Diligence International LLC where she spent several years as Research Director. In 2017 she joined forces with Russell to launch Fulcrum Diligence.

Eve is a leading white collar crime specialist. She has acted in a number of high-profile trials brought by the SFO, FCA and CPS and acts for both individuals and domestic and multinational corporations in a broad range of sectors, including criminal investigations into bribery, money laundering, fraud, cartels and financial services offences. She regularly advises in cross border investigations.

Representing people across the country, Mark has successfully litigated the most complex family law cases. Mark has established practice representing people across a wide range of financial claims on divorce, including large and small business owners and entrepreneurs. He also has expertise in dealing with complicated tax structures, overseas trusts and assets.

Sue is a retired Detective Chief Superintendent with 33 years of policing experience, specialising in serious and complex crime including murder, rape, and organised criminality. Throughout her career she witnessed first hand the transformation of criminal investigations particularly the groundbreaking impact of forensic science and DNA which was a turning point, a golden nugget that transformed cold cases into convictions.

Lois is the co-head of the litigation and dispute resolution group. She advises corporates, funds, investors, financial institutions and entrepreneurs on a broad range of complex, cross-border commercial and corporate disputes in High Court and international arbitration.

David is a forensic accountant specialising in Investigations and Compliance. With over 20 years of experience, David has helped clients manage fraud risk and navigate complex financial and regulatory challenges. Recently, he has been supporting clients in preparing for UK Corporate reforms and the ECCTA.

Richard is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London and he specialises in international arbitration. He has advised on and appeared in arbitrations administered under many of the most common arbitration rules, including LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL rules, and seated in a number of different arbitral seats.

Rowena is a partner in the Professional and Financial Disputes team at Clyde & Co. She specialises in acting for accountancy firms and their partners, both in relation to the defence of high value and complex professional negligence claims, as well as representing them in regulatory investigations and disciplinary proceedings. She has been involved in some of the most high profile FRC audit investigations and audit claims over the past decade.

Jonathan is ranked in Band One in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 as a specialist financial remedy practitioner. He provides advice and representation in cases involving all aspects of the financial consequences of marriage, civil partnership and other domestic relationship breakdown.

Hinesh is a forensic accountant and specialises in leading investigations on fraud, financial crime and accounting matters with extensive experience of working with clients in the financial services, infrastructure and energy sectors.

Jamie is widely recognised for his extensive insurance industry knowledge and commercial awareness. Jamie acts on a broad spectrum of contentious and regulatory matters in the sector, including disputes concerning insurance coverage under a range of different policies providing cover for first party and third party losses for clients in multiple sectors. Jamie has experience advising all market players on their major claims, including policy holders, reinsurers, cedants and brokers. Jamie also has a particular focus on insured claims arising from M&A activity and supports clients in negotiating W&I and contingent risk covers.

Nikki is recognised as one of the leading advocates at the Bar for commercial and chancery litigation. The Legal 500 describes him as “fantastically clever, an excellent technical lawyer and advocate. A Rolls-Royce among silks”. He has been instructed in some of the largest cases in the High Court and overseas. His expertise is in a wide range of commercial, trusts, civil fraud and asset recovery, company and business litigation cases. He has appeared as lead advocate in reported cases and is an experienced courtroom advocate. He appears regularly in the Chancery Division and the Commercial Court, and also in courts offshore.