Damage Calculations

Specialist Forensic Advisory

Our team of forensic accountants includes internationally recognised experts in assessing loss claims, undertaking valuations and advising on accounting disputes.

With decades of experience, we specialise in providing independent expert assessments and expert witness services.

Our experts are regularly called upon to provide assessments of damages and have experience testifying in courts and tribunals in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

We have been instructed in many of Australia’s leading class actions, including major investor and security class actions.

What we do

We provide independent expert assessments as to the quantum of damages arising from claims for loss of profit, loss of value, loss of opportunity or wasted costs.

We develop models to calculate damages, provide written and oral testimony on the damages arising from disputes, and evaluate the testimony and advice of other experts.

We work across numerous industries, including:

Investor class actions in many industries
Mining
Pharmaceutical and medical
Financial services
Manufacturing
Computer software
Managed investment schemes
Food and beverage
Construction
Waste disposal.

We have particular expertise in estimating losses arising from intellectual property disputes, including:

Enquiries as to damages
Accounts of profit
Undertakings as to damages
Determination of reasonable royalty rates
Conducting royalty examinations.

We pride ourselves on our reputation and our ability to deliver assessments and insights that can withstand scrutiny.

Our forensic assessments are coupled with our experts’ clear communication skills so that all parties are able to understand even the most complex of issues.

Clients value our expertise and capability as a smaller, independent firm with the ability to bring evidence-based perspectives from experts with impeccable credentials.

Key contacts

Tony Samuel

Managing Director
SYDNEY
tsamuel@sapereForensic.com

Kieran Murray

Managing Director
WELLINGTON
kmurray@thinkSapere.com

Some of our recent articles of interest

The economic benefits of a circular economy in Auckland

Client: Sustainable Business Network

This report provides a view on the potential economic benefits of a more circular economy for Auckland. It has been commissioned by the Sustainable Business Network to inform its report on the circular economy opportunity for Auckland.

The emissions footprint of broadband in New Zealand

Client: Chorus

This paper provides a first assessment of the emissions footprint of the current New Zealand fibre network, with a focus on internet provision to households and small to medium-sized businesses.

Making New Zealand safer: regulating the engineering profession

Client: Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment

Sapere prepared a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to support MBIE’s proposal for an occupational regulatory regime for engineers.

Infrastructure consenting for climate targets

Client: Te Waihanga / New Zealand Infrastructure Commission

This research models the impact on New Zealand’s emissions reduction targets if the current resource consenting system continues to delay decisions on infrastructure project consenting.

Māori Primary Health Care

Client: Wai 2575 Claimants

Sapere were asked by the claimants to respond to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that a methodology be developed to measure the degree of underfunding of Māori PHOs and providers.

Sizing of the backyard and micro-commercial egg production in Australia

Client: Australian Eggs

Which came first the chicken or the egg? We don’t have the answer to that, but we do know the size of backyard and micro-commercial egg production in Australia.

A chance to make clinical trials sustainable, effective, and equitable in Aotearoa New Zealand

Client: Liggins Institute University of Auckland

Sapere provided extensive analytical support to a consortium of researchers from the University of Auckland and the University of Otago on a Health Research Council (HRC) and Ministry of Health funded research project. The consortium was brought together to review Aotearoa New Zealand’s clinical trials activity and infrastructure.