Dispute analysis

When accounting, business or financial issues are involved in a commercial litigation, arbitration or dispute, we recommend you enlist the help of expert accountants.

The KordaMentha Forensics team is highly experienced in litigation and dispute resolution processes. Our Partners and other senior members of the team have extensive experience in acting in many of the most complex and highest profile disputes in Australia and the region.


Those roles have included acting as:

  • an independent accounting expert witness in Court and other proceedings
  • a consulting accounting expert
  • an expert pursuant to dispute resolution clauses
  • a Court-appointed referee.

Details of the experience of our Partners and other senior staff can found by clicking here.


The combined dispute analysis expertise of our team enables us to assist at different stages of a dispute, by providing:

  • preliminary advice in relation to quantification and methodology issues
  • assistance in the identification of accounting and financial records pursuant to discovery orders
  • reconstruction and analysis of accounting records and other financial information
  • quantification reports on economic loss and damages
  • the provision of advice and expert witness reports
  • a critique of an opposing expert's report
  • assistance in settlement negotiations.

Our Forensics team specialise in resolving the following types of commercial disputes and claims:

  • breach of contract
  • misrepresentation
  • business interruption insurance
  • professional negligence (including auditor negligence)
  • construction
  • post-acquisition
  • trade practices
  • regulatory and pricing disputes
  • intellectual property and accounts of profits
  • business and share valuation
  • insolvent trading
  • minority oppression.

Please contact us today to discuss your specific requirements.

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John Temple-Cole
Partner, Forensics

Sydney, NSW
+61 2 8257 3077
jtemplecole@kordamentha.com


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Owain Stone
Partner, Forensics
Melbourne, Vic

+61 3 8623 3410
ostone@kordamentha.com

 

 

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Andrew Ross
Partner, Forensics
Sydney, NSW

+61 2 8257 3051
aross@kordamentha.com




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