Valuing a funded claim for fair reporting

Our work began with a deep understanding of the claim itself. The case concerned an expropriation, with damages linked to contractual rights and shareholdings. We analysed the company’s history, the legal theory underpinning the claimed losses and the range of procedural paths the litigation might follow, including successive appeals.

Timing was critical: each procedural stage carried the potential to add years to the process, affecting the present value of any award. To ground our assumptions, we analysed past judgments, appeal data and judicial patterns to develop a realistic view of the litigation’s likely trajectory.

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The analysis was not left in a black-box model. The engagement was led end-to-end by two senior partners – Chris Osborne and Dora Grunwald – ensuring a high level of partner involvement throughout. We provided regular weekly updates and delivered a final presentation to the client’s senior leadership team, clearly setting out the valuation and the reasoning behind it. The findings provided a clear valuation, backed by transparent reasoning and data strong enough to stand up to external scrutiny.

The result was a fair value assessment that met the client’s accounting requirements and was accepted in full by their auditors. Delivered in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the project demonstrated our ability to navigate complexity, uncertainty and large volumes of data – and to turn them into clear, defensible insights that decision-makers can trust.

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