Dealing with commercial, contractual, or personal disputes often means dealing with high stakes.
Disputes can involve complex economic, financial, and technical issues. They can also involve multiple languages, client locations and applicable laws and standards. In these situations, an expert advisor may be required to assist.
KPMG’s consulting and independent experts can act as expert determiners, consulting or independent experts and are experienced in providing oral evidence in Australia and internationally across a broad range of jurisdictions.
Our Forensic Dispute Advisory team helps clients and their counsel collect, organise, and analyse the facts of the dispute. By conducting a sound assessment of each side’s position, better outcomes – whether in settlement, alternative resolutions, or litigation – can be achieved.
Need help with financial dispute resolution?
Discuss your options with our independent forensic accounting experts.
How KPMG's Dispute Advisory Services can help
Robust accounting analysis, valuation, financial investigation, and reporting is crucial to understanding complex financial disputes. KPMG’s Dispute Advisory team provides specialist forensic accounting, loss and valuation advice tailored to suit the conflict you are facing.
Our services include:
Independent Expert Witness Services
Expert evidence for practical dispute resolution
During legal proceedings, you may need to produce expert evidence that supports your case.
Our industry-specific independent experts will guide you through the processes required to help you achieve a practical resolution to your financial dispute.
Specialist areas include:
- loss and damage
- contentious valuations
- accounting, finance, and economics
- digital forensics
- corporate governance
- forensic transaction services.
Expert Determination Services
Address key issues in complex disputes
Differing interpretations of accounting principles and a lack of specificity around financial provisions can lead to a loss of trust between parties to an agreement.
Engaging an independent expert to help. Our Dispute Advisory team can help you isolate and understand key issues in complex contractual agreements.
We provide all parties with an opportunity to be heard through:
- post-acquisition disputes
- compulsory acquisitions
- business interruption
- joint venture agreements
- commercial contractual disputes
- international dispute resolution
- business and share valuations
- alternative dispute resolution
- competition issues.
Technical Accounting Experts
Specialist advice to instruct legal counsel
Briefing your legal team about complicated financial or economic components that impact liability can be daunting.
And if your dispute involves an unusual theory behind your financial loss, a technical accounting specialist may help.
KPMG’s Technical Accounting team specialise in instructing legal counsel on:
- post-acquisition disputes
- class actions & D&O claims
- expert determination advocacy
- director’s duties [this is quite broad – can this term be made more specific?]
- evidence and disclosure management.
