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- commercial cases (warranty claims, loss of profits, etc.);
- fatal accident claims;
- personal injury;
- matrimonial;
- arbitration; and
- valuation.
We also extend to fraud (defence usually) and drug trafficking or other confiscation rebuttals. We have experience of all these, acquired over the last fifteen years. It costs nothing to send us the papers and ask for a quote. We can immediately let you have a firm price and what we can do, including a delivery date. Please e-mail or fax us for an immediate response.
All the work is carried out by John Malthouse, who gives evidence and appears at conferences. We only delegate the straightforward accountancy to save costs.
Valuation of a Business
Lawyers often need to know whether it's worthwhile pursuing the valuation of a business. They need a ball-park figure. Frequently the question is about the ability of a businessman to raise money against his organisation. But a full-scale business valuation and report is relatively expensive and time consuming.
If you need to have a general indication of value between certain parameters and you need to know the likelihood of raising money, how much and in what circumstances, we can do a very brief report for a guaranteed maximum of £500 plus VAT. It's a formal report, albeit in abbreviated form, that you can use in negotiations, or that you can simply use to guide you and your client's forward planning. It's quick, simple and not complicated. Just a pointer and no more.
24 hour turn-around
If you come across a set of accounts and you want a quick indication of where the danger areas might lie we can do this at minimal cost. For £250 plus VAT we guarantee to send you a critique of any set of accounts, forecasts or budgets pointing out all the areas that you need to investigate, or generally giving an opinion on the state of the business and how it generally all stacks up.
Accounts are often labyrinthine these days and non accountants frequently need an initial amount of help. We guarantee to get a response back to you by fax or e-mail within 24 hours of the initial request.
Joint Accountants' Statements
These are very common now and they save endless time at a later stage. Once the initial reports have been done the joint statements can be produced very quickly and it is not often that the accountants are then absolutely at loggerheads. Not about the drafting of a joint statement at least. Quite often the points of difference reduce to very little.
The key thing is to get the accountants together at the earliest possible stage. It does take time, so the tighter the deadline the better.
Have you ever wondered who actually does what at the meetings of experts your chosen experts attend?
There are significant advantages to being in control of the way and speed things happen at the meeting. The person setting the agenda will, often subconsciously, put their strong points first and so set the tone. The person writing the joint statement will use their language and favour their points.
This can mean that a perfectly above board and fair meeting of experts can have two apparently different outcomes, depending on who takes the lead rôle. As instructing solicitors you might think about including a request that your expert take this rôle in such meetings. At the very least you should always ask which firm drafted the joint statement and bear this in mind when relying on the wording in court.
And telephones?
Meetings can, of course, be by telephone. This should be encouraged as it saves you costs and usually allows the experts to "meet" sooner, and to greater convenience to them. You can always question, at a costs hearing, why the other side objected to this idea.
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