Forensic Accounting
Expert accounting evidence built early, since these disputes are decided on numbers rather than narrative.
Complex financial claims turn on documentation and expert evidence rather than on witness recollection. The facility papers, the transaction records and the accounting analysis decide these disputes, and the party with the better prepared file usually prevails.
Dubai Legal Expert conducts financial litigation across the UAE for corporates, investors, guarantors and financial institutions, in the onshore courts, the DIFC Courts and in arbitration.
The claims we handle include disputes over structured facilities and derivatives, investment mis selling and advisory duty allegations, guarantee and security enforcement, disputes between shareholders and financiers, and claims arising from the collapse of financed transactions.
Forum matters more here than in most litigation. Onshore courts, the DIFC Courts and arbitration each approach financial evidence and expert testimony differently, and finance documentation frequently contains clauses giving one party a choice between them.
Contact UsDisputes over structured facilities, derivatives, hedging documentation and close out calculations.
Claims concerning mis selling, suitability and the scope of advisory duties owed.
Enforcement and defence of guarantees, mortgages, pledges and security instruments.
Representation for banks and finance companies in claims brought by customers and counterparties.
Instruction and management of forensic accounting and financial expert evidence.
Expert accounting evidence built early, since these disputes are decided on numbers rather than narrative.
Onshore, DIFC and arbitration compared against the claim, the documents and the enforcement position.
Facility, security and correspondence records assembled in full before the case is framed.
Attachment applied for where there is a real risk assets will be moved before judgment.
Coordination where counterparties, assets or governing law sit outside the UAE.
Recovery prospects assessed at the outset, because a judgment against an empty entity achieves nothing.
In financial disputes the expert report frequently determines the outcome. Where a close out calculation, an interest computation or a valuation is in issue, the tribunal or court relies on the accounting analysis rather than on the parties competing assertions.
Instructing the expert early, and framing the pleaded case around what the analysis actually supports, produces a considerably stronger position than pleading first and looking for evidence afterwards.
Build the numbers, choose the forum, then plead what the evidence supports.
The full transaction and facility documentation is obtained and the legal position assessed.
Onshore courts, DIFC and arbitration are compared against the documents and the enforcement position.
Forensic accounting or financial expert evidence is commissioned before the case is framed.
The counterparty asset position is assessed and preservation measures taken where warranted.
The claim or defence is pleaded around the evidence and pursued through the chosen forum.
The judgment or award is enforced, with cross border steps where assets sit abroad.
The forensic accounting was commissioned before we pleaded. The pleaded case matched the evidence exactly and never had to be amended.
The forum analysis mattered enormously. Filing in the wrong venue would have cost us both time and leverage.
Court or arbitration proceedings concerning finance and investment matters, including facilities, derivatives, guarantees, security and advisory duty claims.
Onshore courts, the DIFC Courts and arbitration each hear financial disputes, and the applicable forum depends on the documentation and the parties.
In most complex financial claims yes. Accounting and valuation evidence frequently determines the outcome and should be commissioned early.
Precautionary attachment is available where the legal conditions are met, and it is often the difference between a judgment and a recovery.
Complex financial claims generally run longer than ordinary commercial matters because of the expert stage, and we give a realistic timeline at the outset.
Enforcement of foreign judgments and awards is possible subject to the applicable requirements, and we advise on the position for your case.
Complex financial claims are decided on evidence prepared early. The first consultation is free.
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