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Insolvency Service – Criminal Investigations

This was a criminal investigation undertaken by the Insolvency Service into a company that provided courier and delivery services for a number of organisations including Amazon. The company had a confidential invoice discounting facility with Bibby. It is alleged that the company over-inflated and/or under- inflated the invoices it submitted to Bibby to obtain advances […]

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Matrimonial

Shadow expert witness advice in matrimonial financial proceedings concerning a house-builder comprising a group of construction companies with a turnover of £60m per annum.

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Fraud investigation

Assisting in the defence of a care worker charged with stealing clients’ money and using such funds to purchase goods for themselves.

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POCA proceedings – Hidden Assets issue

Defendant pleaded guilty to cheating the public revenue and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The defendant was part of a Berkshire OCG responsible for large scale laundering of the proceeds of VAT “missing trader” fraud predicated on alcohol diversion fraud. Defendant was sentenced to 5 years and 2 months imprisonment and was made subject of […]

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Portfolio of properties held personally and in a company

Instruction to consider the CGT arising on a number of residential properties, owned directly by the Parties and through a company. In addition we were asked to value the holding company and then identify the tax efficiency of using transfers and dividends for dividing the properties in a settlement.

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POCA – arising from EncroChat investigations

Defendant pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Supply cannabis, further to data that had been harvested following the infiltration of the EncroChat platform. That data identified that the Defendant together with his co-defendants were planning to import cannabis from Morocco via Spain into the UK, using a yacht in the English Channel or international waters before […]

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Chemical coatings blender

Valuation of a company selling patented anti-bacteriological coatings into the retail, leather and fabric industries with UK and non-EU client/supplier base. Husband had set up an associated company with former director in the most recent accounting period that was acting as a reseller of the products.

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IFA portfolio

I was asked to identify the capital value of the portfolio of clients and the expected sustainable income. The Husband has developed and migrated his portfolio of clients as he moved between IFA firm networks.

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Matrimonial valuation

Valuation of small building developer and renovation business for matrimonial proceedings including, liquidity, tax, review of dividends and analysis of directors’ loan account balances.

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