We are seeking an experienced disputes-advisory and expert-witness practitioner to join our client in Sydney at Director level. The successful candidate will lead delivery on quantum, damages and valuation workstreams under Partner-led engagement strategy and methodology direction, operate as a senior delivery practitioner alongside Partners during expert-evidence and tribunal-preparation windows, and build the named-account and law-firm-partner relationships that underpin future origination at Senior Director and Partner level. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and tooling are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new disputes advisory and expert-witness practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented disputes practitioners to make safe exits to launch rewarding new careers, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery on quantum, damages and valuation analyses on commercial-litigation, class-action, international-arbitration, post-M&A, shareholder, construction, IP-infringement, competition-and-consumer-law and insurance-subrogation disputes - in support of Partner-led engagement strategy and methodology direction - delivering methodology execution, model build, sensitivity testing and written deliverable.
• Contribute to and draft expert reports compliant with Federal Court Practice Notes on expert evidence, the Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses (the NSW UCPR), the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration, and the relevant tribunal procedural orders - under Partner-led testifying-expert direction.
• Support testifying experts on concurrent-evidence (hot-tub) and joint-expert-statement procedures in the Federal Court, the NSW Supreme Court and ACICA / AIAC arbitration; prepare for and contribute to oral testimony where instructed.
• Run discounted-cash-flow, market-multiples and precedent-transaction analyses to investigation-grade depth; build defensible but-for and counterfactual scenarios; apply Monte Carlo and regression techniques where the matter requires probabilistic quantum.
• Deliver lost-profits, business-interruption, lost-opportunity and wasted-expenditure analyses across financial-services, mining-and-resources, construction, technology, agribusiness and consumer-products disputes.
• Engage with external counsel and instructing solicitors under Partner direction; deliver privilege-discipline and chain-of-evidence rigour suitable for cross-examination, and contribute to responses on opposing-expert challenge.
• Build emerging client relationships and contribute to named-account development at General Counsel, CFO and Head of Litigation level, and at relevant law firm partner level - under Partner direction.
• Mentor and advocate for managers and senior managers - supporting their delivery, championing their development needs at engagement-staffing rounds, and sponsoring their upskilling on emerging methodology and AI tooling - and contribute to firm-wide expert-report standards under the Federal Court Code of Conduct and market-insight knowledge sharing on emerging quantum and valuation issues, particularly in the post-Hayne and class-action lines.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ) preferred, or CPA Australia, or equivalent professional accounting qualification (ACA / ICAEW, ACCA, CPA US, HKICPA, ISCA).
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in disputes advisory, forensic accounting, quantum analysis or expert-witness support, with substantive direct exposure to Australian commercial-litigation, class-action and international-arbitration matters.
• Demonstrable track record of acting as technical lead on quantum, damages and valuation analyses - in support of Partner-led engagement strategy and methodology direction - delivering methodology execution and written deliverables, while building the named-account and law-firm-partner networks that underpin future personal origination at Senior Director and Partner level.
• Direct experience working with senior client stakeholders (General Counsel, CFO, Head of Litigation), instructing solicitors at partner level, and arbitration tribunals or Australian-court process.
• Working knowledge of the Australian disputes framework: Federal Court Practice Notes on expert evidence, the NSW UCPR Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses, ACICA arbitration rules and procedural conventions, the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration, and class-action procedure under the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976.
• Working knowledge of damages-quantification methodology: discounted cash flow, market multiples, precedent-transaction analysis, but-for and counterfactual modelling, and lost-profits / business-interruption / wasted-expenditure techniques.
• Familiarity with industry-standard disputes-advisory tooling, including financial-data platforms (such as Bloomberg, Capital IQ or Refinitiv), valuation databases (such as Mergermarket or Pitchbook), modelling environments (such as Microsoft Excel with Power Query or Argus), simulation tools (such as @Risk or Crystal Ball), and visualisation tools (such as Power BI or Tableau).
• Calm, credible communication style suited to expert-report drafting and (where instructed) concurrent-evidence procedures and cross-examination.
• High-agency operating style with strong judgement under tribunal and court time pressure and the methodological discipline to ensure findings are evidence-based, structured and defensible.

Preferred Experience:

• CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics, AICPA) or CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner, ACFE) where the disputes work crosses into financial-accounting forensics or fraud quantum.
• CA ANZ specialist designation in Forensic Accounting; ASA (American Society of Appraisers) or RICS valuation accreditation where the disputes work centres on real-asset or business-valuation issues.
• CIArb membership (MCIArb / FCIArb) and arbitrator-track standing for practitioners moving toward testifying-expert or arbitrator dual roles.
• Postgraduate study in finance, economics, valuation or law with disputes / arbitration relevance.
• Cross-border disputes experience across Australia / NZ / PNG and the broader APAC region.
• Track record of expert-report admissibility, concurrent-evidence (hot-tub) appearances, or joint-expert-statement work under Federal Court or NSW Supreme Court rules, or in international arbitration.
• Established or emerging relationships with law firm partners in international arbitration, commercial litigation, class actions, construction, M&A litigation, shareholder disputes, competition-and-consumer-law and IP litigation practices who instruct disputes advisory and expert-witness work.
• Continuous-learning posture and active engagement with the AI developments reshaping disputes advisory: candidates who track tooling shifts (such as AI-assisted comparable-transaction analysis, ML-aided market-evidence enrichment, or LLM-supported expert-report drafting under Federal Court Code of Conduct defensibility review), share that knowledge with managers and senior managers, and have a track record of supporting team upskilling on emerging methodologies.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to Australian citizens, permanent residents and qualified candidates with relevant Australian work-rights status who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist disputes advisory and expert-witness recruitment consultant.

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