Our work

A listed litigation funder engaged Osborne Partners to value one of its largest claims for accounting purposes. This was no ordinary asset: it was not traded, there were no market benchmarks and its value depended on the outcome of a long and uncertain legal process. Arriving at a fair value required more than calculation - it demanded a rigorous framework capable of standing up to scrutiny from both senior management and external auditors.

A leading international law firm engaged Osborne Partners to support a shareholder class action in Australia. The claim alleged that a listed minerals company had issued misleading accounts, overstating the value of its business units and raising capital on that basis. Our role was not to quantify shareholder losses, but to provide independent valuations of the company’s business units at multiple points in time, so the legal team could anchor the broader case in a defensible view of fair value.

Osborne Partners was engaged by a consortium of oil companies facing a claim brought by a Central Asian state. The government alleged the companies had failed to develop an oil field to its maximum capacity, leading to a headline dispute in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Osborne Partners was retained to respond on a majority portion of the claim in a case heard under UNCITRAL arbitration rules and one of the largest disputes of its kind.

When a shareholder dispute reached arbitration in Hong Kong, Osborne Partners was engaged to assess the value of a leading global crypto exchange. There were billions of dollars at stake, and with the industry facing regulatory and political headwinds worldwide, the challenge was to produce a credible valuation in one of the most uncertain sectors of the global economy.

A sublicensing deal over cricket broadcasting worth more than a billion dollars collapsed when the counterparty failed to honour it, leaving our client, a major Indian media company, to fight the case in arbitration. The team at Osborne Partners was brought in to solve a critical question: could the rights still be monetised to match or go beyond the original deal, or had they become a loss-making burden?

Osborne Partners was instructed in relation to a bilateral investment treaty dispute involving a global consumer goods company’s operations in a South American country. Our task was to value the business in a context shaped by hyperinflation, multiple official exchange-rate mechanisms, foreign exchange controls, and material gaps in historical data.