Forensic accounting expert with a focus on financial investigations and dispute advisory services.

Luke is a forensic accounting expert, specialising in financial investigations and dispute advisory services. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst with more than 20 years of forensic accounting experience.

Luke is experienced in providing financial, accounting and valuation advice to parties involved in commercial disputes, legal advisers and the courts. He has appeared and provided evidence as an expert witness in a range of jurisdictions including the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of NSW and the Land and Environment Court of NSW.

Prior to joining McGrathNicol, Luke was the lead Forensic Partner in NSW at a Big 4 firm. Here he specialised in financial and regulatory investigations, expert witness and consulting expert assignments, assessments of economic loss, valuations and analysis of businesses, funds tracing assessments, investigations into payroll non-compliance, the preparation of submissions or acting to determine post-acquisition disputes, the reconstruction of accounting records and complex financial analysis.

Qualifications & memberships

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Accounting), University of Sydney

  • Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies), University of Sydney

  • Member, CA ANZ

  • CFA Charterholder

  • Member of the CFA Society, Australia

  • Diploma of Government (Investigations), SIPS