Expert profile

Maxime Girard

Partner

Highlights

Widely experienced Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant.
Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination.
Assessed damages in over 100 arbitration and litigation cases.  
Specialises in forensic accounting and the quantification of damages.
Bilingual in English and French.

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Industries

Maxime is a great addition to any team, he brings a very calm and reassuring presence when giving evidence to tribunals. He is highly focused in court. His ability to clearly explain intricate quantum calculations and methodologies is a significant asset.

Lexology Index - Arbitration

Expertise

Maxime Girard is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 20 years of experience. He has been appointed as an expert in matters of forensic accounting and the assessment of economic loss on over 15 occasions.

Maxime has testified in arbitration and local courts on several occasions, including delivering concurrent evidence. He has prepared more than 200 assessments of economic loss and substantive business valuations for contentious and non-contentious matters in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Maxime specialises in damage quantification, business valuation, fraud investigation, accounting, and auditing. His expertise ranges from the quantification of damages claims in international commercial and investment treaty disputes, contentious valuations and expert determinations to shareholder, joint-venture and post-transaction disputes, financial and fraud investigations, and other types of forensic accounting assignments.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Arbitration

Background

Maxime’s valuation experience spans most industries, including energy, real estate, telecommunications aviation, shipping, manufacturing, real estate, hospitality, retail, and services sectors. He trained as an auditor in one of the big four firms and has been based in the UAE for the last 8 years, having also worked in North America and the UK.

Maxime is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a certified accountant in the UK, USA, and Canada, is Certified in Financial Forensics, and is a Chartered Business Valuator. He holds a diploma in investigative and forensic accounting and is bilingual in English and French.