Andrew Maclay

Director

Andrew specialises in:

• Forensic Accounting

Contact Details

Office Address:

55 Baker Street
London
W1U 7EU

Telephone:

020 7893 3487

Fax:

020 7487 3686

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Biography

Andrew has specialised in all aspects of Forensic Accounting for the last 14 years. He has worked on a large variety of disputes involving contractual claims, quantifying losses and fraud and corruption investigations.

Andrew is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, a Certified Fraud Examiner and an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Between 1991 and 1994, he worked in Burundi, Africa and is fluent in French.

He lectured at Commonwealth Secretariat conferences on corruption investigation in Abuja, Nigeria and Jaipur, India in 2007. He leads BDO UK’s anti-bribery service line and has represented BDO  International at the OECD Working Group on Bribery.

His main areas of expertise are international arbitration , anti-bribery and insolvency litigation.

Client experience includes

• Acted as expert in an ICC arbitration on behalf of an aerospace company.  He wrote a report quantifying the losses and  pointing out weaknesses in the claim.  He also drafted a joint statement of experts and was cross-examined before the tribunal.
• Acted as Expert for insurers in a US$200 million film finance case, which included investigating alleged fraud and preparing Expert Witness reports for use in the courts of both the UK and the USA.
• Led part of the UK accounting investigation into corruption by ex-President Abacha of Nigeria and helped recover more than US$2.3 billion for the Federal Government of Nigeria.
• Managed litigation in France and the USA arising out of the collapse of Swissair. This involved using insolvency powers in a number of jurisdictions including Guernsey, the Cayman Islands, Switzerland and South Africa to obtain information and carry out interviews.
• Provided the forensic accounting support to litigation in the UK, Switzerland, France, Germany, the Middle East and the USA following the removal of more than US$200m from the bank accounts of a Middle Eastern businessman. This involved obtaining documents and carrying out interviews in a number of jurisdictions.