Forensic Accounting and Commercial dispute resolution

BDO has a dedicated and highly experienced forensic accounting team committed to helping clients resolve the most challenging commercial disputes. The team also provides support for litigation and international arbitration.

Our services include:

  • Expert witness and litigation support.
  • Reviewing initial information and providing preliminary analysis on liability and quantum
  • Drafting assistance (letters before action, statements of claim, witness statements)
  • Calculation of quantum of loss
  • Independent opinions on technical accounting matters
  • Insolvency investigations and contentious insolvency litigation support
  • Investigation of electronic disclosure
  • Assistance at mediations and settlement negotiations
  • Company and partnership valuations
  • Shareholder disputes
  • Professional negligence
  • Taxation transactions
  • Warranty claims


Expert witness

Our team has considerable experience of providing evidence in commercial dispute cases in Court. Our expertise includes understanding the legal process and explaining the complexities of issues such as loss of profits, loss of value, wasted expenditure, contingent losses, loss of chance and professional negligence for the Court or tribunal to understand.

Our expert witnesses have provided expert opinions on quantum and professional negligence in hundreds of cases. Supporting them is a team of specialists with forensic accounting and investigative skills and experts in most sectors from across the BDO network.


International commercial dispute resolution and arbitration

BDO has a dedicated and highly experienced forensic accounting team with the insight to solve the most challenging accounting disputes and support litigation and international arbitration.

We work closely with colleagues from across BDO’s international network to support clients on multi-jurisdictional disputes. Our expertise includes understanding the legal process and the issues in dispute, explaining the complexities of issues such as loss of profits, loss of value, wasted expenditure, contingent losses, loss of chance and professional negligence for the Court or tribunal to understand.

Our specialist Professional Negligence team comprises leading advisers on auditing and accounting negligence cases. Our team includes practitioners with recent audit and accounting backgrounds, many of whom act as expert witnesses and mediators.

Click here to read more about our Global Forensic Services team.