Charles is a senior partner and heads the firm's forensic accounting practice in London. He graduated with joint honours in mathematics and physics in 1977 and obtained his masters degree in business administration in 1987. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, having qualifying in 1980. He has spent his professional career in practice in the City, advising a wide range of private and listed companies, and a variety of major publicly funded bodies.
Since the late 1980s he has provided investigations and consulting services involving complex financial matters and litigation, and conducted various sensitive internal inquiries. Drawing on his considerable experience, he has acted as an expert witness and assisted Counsel with evidence and strategy in over 300 civil cases and complex fraud trials. His credentials as an expert witness have been checked by the Law Society. He has acted as a single joint expert, issued expert determinations and given evidence in Court and at arbitrations in the UK, North America and Europe on many occasions. He is also frequently asked to attend mediations as an expert. He is on the panel of the President’s Scheme at the Institute of Chartered Accountants for the appointment of experts in a wide variety of roles. He is a member of the Academy of Experts and the Expert Witness Institute. He occasionally undertakes legally aided appointments.
His experience covers the whole range of commercial and contractual disputes, white-collar crime, business valuations, disqualifications, individual and family financial matters. He has quantified losses, consequential losses, losses arising from product liability, business disruptions, business dissolutions, carried out valuations of businesses and shares, and following compulsory purchase, of commercial agencies, on divorce. He has carried out capital cost and borrowing evaluations, given opinions on professional negligence and for directors' disqualification cases, advised on partnership disputes, trustees’ responsibilities, accounting issues, intellectual property, breach of warranty, acquisition and mergers, personal injury, financial solvency reports and corporate governance matters. His complex fraud cases have included securities frauds, marketing scams, ponzi schemes, arson, money laundering and proceeds of crime, and the investigation and prosecution of investment frauds.
While almost all his client assignments remain confidential, one investigations report published on 11 February 2008 is available on the web at: www.familymosaic.co.uk/documents/Report.pdf
Charles can be contacted by phone on 020 7651 1043, or by email at charles.lazarevic@moorestephens.com |