Professional experience
Justin has over 22 years of experience in Forensic Dispute Advisory. He possesses extensive expertise in preparing expert witness reports that address a wide range of complex issues, with particular emphasis on matters involving valuation, damages, and other quantum aspects of commercial disputes, including:
- Post-acquisition disputes
- Contractual disputes
- Business interruption
- Shareholder oppression
- Compulsory acquisition
- Completion accounts disputes
- Class actions
- Franchise disputes
- Partnership disputes
- Business valuations
Justin has managed and delivered independent expert, consulting expert, special referee and single expert engagements in industries including:
- Aged care and accommodation
- Automotive
- Commercial construction
- Commercial real estate
- Higher education
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Food processing
- Hospitality
- Infrastructure
- Live export
- Mining
- Pharmaceutical
- Retail
- Telecommunications
- Toll roads
Some examples of engagements that Justin has managed and delivered include:
- A consulting expert role to assess the value of an automotive franchise for a proposed sale transaction
- An independent expert role to assess the value of an automotive franchise on termination of the franchise agreement by the manufacturer
- An independent expert role to comment on the claimant’s valuation methodology and assess the value of rectification costs to an infrastructure construction entity
- An independent expert role to assess the value of a shareholding in an Australian automotive software company with national and international markets in a shareholder oppression proceeding
- An independent expert role to assess the value of a shareholding in an industrial process plant and equipment engineering business operating in domestic and internal markets
- An independent expert role in relation to the assessment of losses by six claimants arising from an overturned injunction that prevented the release of generic versions of a pharmaceutical drug
- An independent expert role to assess the value of a shareholding in a live cattle export business
- An independent expert role to assess the damages incurred by a supported residential services provider on termination of a lease agreement
Qualifications and memberships
- Bachelor of Economics (Monash University)
- Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (Financial Services Institute of Australasia ‘FINSIA’)
- Graduate Diploma in Accounting (Monash University)
- Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA)
- Affiliate member of the Law Institute of Victoria (Australia)
