Expert Profile - Shaun Walbridge FCCA FAE

Shaun trained with a top fifty firm of Chartered Accountants in the South West of England, qualifying in 1991. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a practising Fellow of The Academy of Experts (TAE).

He is also a TAE accredited Mediator and an Expert Determiner and is one of the relatively few (less than 100) who hold the Institute of Chartered Accountants' “Accredited Forensic Accountant & Expert Witness” designation.

As a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Shaun reports on financial matters under the Companies Act and other related acts.Qualifications

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

• Associate - 1991

• Fellow - 1996

• Registered auditor - 1991

Other memberships

• Academy of Experts – Member 1999, Fellow 2016, Accredited Forensic Accounting Expert Witness

• Qualified Dispute Resolver - 2001

• Expert Determiner - 2020

Summary of career history

• Following qualification as a Chartered Certified Accountant, Shaun started a management consultancy practice specialising in Local & Health Authority finances and special investigations.

• In 1994, he started his own accountancy practice providing business advisory, audit, accountancy, and tax compliance services to SME businesses throughout the South West of England.

• From 1994, he commenced specialising in expert witness work and over the course of the next 12 years developed a specialist forensic accounting practice.

• In his role as Expert Witness, he has prepared reports across all disciplines and has given evidence in the Crown and High Courts and at Tribunals.

• In October 2006, he became managing director of S W Forensic Accounting Ltd with responsibility for the development of the firm’s forensic accounting and litigation support services.

• In October 2008, he was appointed a Partner in BTG Forensic (a division of the Begbies Traynor Group), subsequently leaving to set up the niche practice Integrum Forensic.

Experience

Shaun accepts instructions from both Claimant and Defendant solicitors, Prosecution and Defence, barristers, insurers, companies, and individuals to quantify the value of claims.

Cases include:

• Commercial claims

• Forensic insolvency

• Personal injury & fatal accidents

• Fraud & money laundering

• Criminal cases

• Share & business valuations

• Professional negligence

• Matrimonial disputes

• Confiscation/Proceeds of crime

Shaun has provided reports as a single joint expert and as a party- appointed expert, or where required as an expert advisor to either party. He has given evidence in the Crown Court and High Court on numerous occasions in both civil and criminal cases and is noted for the clarity of his reports.