FTI Consulting synthesises financial, competitive and industry information to help clients unravel challenging financial and economic issues in commercial disputes. Our experienced global team provides valuable insight and clarity, helping clients during every stage of a contested matter, from early case assessment and discovery to case strategy, damages analysis and settlement services. Our senior professionals are highly skilled at communicating our findings through expert testimony in various settings as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Located in key financial centers around the world, the team conducts sophisticated investigations, uncovers actionable intelligence and performs value-added analysis to help decision-makers address and mitigate risk, protect assets, remediate compliance, make informed decisions and maximise opportunities.
The accounting, economics and finance specialists on the global arbitration team have extensive experience in valuation and damages quantification in the context of treaty and commercial arbitration. FTI Consulting experts clearly and concisely substantiate damages calculations with written reports and expert testimony.
Our arbitration specialists regularly testify in treaty and commercial arbitrations before major international bodies, including the CIETAC, HKIAC, SIAC and ACICA, as well as ad hoc arbitrations, domestic courts and tribunals.
FTI Consulting has deep expertise helping clients to prepare and interpret damages analyses. Drawing upon a thorough understanding of the links among damages, causation and liability, our highly qualified specialists apply their accounting, forecasting and financial reporting expertise to develop logical, highly defensible determinations of damages. Our consultants are experts in their respective fields and have a thorough understanding of how to present damages in a clear and concise way.
FTI Consulting provides access to a prestigious team with both in-the-field and in-the-courtroom experience in accounting, finance, economics, valuation, computer forensics and fraud investigation. We have testified on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in court proceedings, in arbitration, and before administrative agencies in court. Our testifying experts have given evidence both for and against the government, thereby enhancing our credibility with juries and courts.
To testify in support of our clients, the expert testimony team offers a range of specialised services, including:
Analysis of financial records and business conduct
Assistance in developing and responding to discovery requests
Critiques of opposing expert analyses
Financial advice in the settlement process
Support for witness preparations
Preparation of expert opinions, affidavits and reports
Formulation of relevant technical questions
Research on relevant economic, industry and market data
FTI Consulting experts help clients unravel accounting and financial complexities in commercial disputes across all industry sectors and help bring a dispute to an efficient and cost-effective resolution. We can assist in all phases of judicial, regulatory and administrative disputes from early case assessment and pre-trial discovery through trial and appeal. Team members also act as independent accounting and/or damages experts.
The team provides independent analysis of economic risks, costs and benefits of litigation on issues, including:
FTI Consulting has the resources to help companies navigate complicated post-acquisition disputes. Our experts have extensive experience analysing purchase price issues, assessing the value of businesses and facilitating dispute resolution. Our professionals offer innovative solutions to resolve disputes regarding accounting judgments and valuations from the point of view of the buyer, the seller or an independent arbitrator/mediator.
The experienced, multidisciplinary post-acquisition dispute team assists clients with a range of critical issues, including:
Due diligence
Risk exposure for purchase price adjustments
Working capital adjustments
Closing date balance sheet claims
Resolution of earn-out issues
Assessment of “benefit-of-the-bargain” damages, lost profits or value diminutions
Our professionals provide valuation consulting services in connection with disputes, transactions and day-to-day corporate management. Because our valuations are consistent with the methods commonly used for the intended valuation purpose and are successfully supported and communicated based on the intended use and audience, our valuations not only solve problems, they help prevent problems.
FTI Consulting offers a broad range of valuation services to expedite transactions and resolve disputes using the most cost-effective and efficient approach. We not only solve valuation problems, we proactively prevent problems from occurring by using the most appropriate valuation approach for each scenario and then supporting that valuation with a strong, targeted communications program. FTI Consulting valuation services include:
Restructuring valuation services
Litigation consulting and witness testimony
Transaction advisory services
Valuation of intangible assets and goodwill
Our credentialed expert valuation team draws upon years of industry experience with the most prominent accounting firms, valuation firms and investment banks. Clients include private and public companies, as well as leading law firms and major government agencies.
