About
Joseph Kirby is a director at Accuracy. He specialises in valuation (both contentious and non-contentious) and the assessment of damages in commercial disputes, across litigation, commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration contexts.
He has been instructed as an independent expert in international arbitration, UK High Court litigation and in expert determination, and he has worked on high value claims before the courts in multiple jurisdictions, as well as in arbitrations under ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, SIAC and DIS rules.
Joseph has also given valuation advice in the context of merger and acquisition transactions, employee compensation schemes and financial reporting.
Joseph is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a master’s degree in Economics from University College London. Joseph held various positions within disputes and valuations teams at FTI Consulting, Deloitte and HKA before joining Accuracy in 2023. He is a native English speaker.
Joseph is recognised among leading damages experts by Lexology (formerly Who’s Who Legal)
Qualifications
- BA Philosophy and Economics, University College London (2010)
- MSc Economics, University College London (2011)
- Chartered Financial Analyst (2015)
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In-depth expertise
Litigation
Joseph has been instructed as a damages expert in the UK High Court, and has provided expert advice in a number of commercial disputes in the UK, US and Trinidad & Tobago courts.
Commercial arbitration
Joseph has been instructed as a damages expert in high value ICC and DIS claims, and has provided expert advice in commercial arbitrations across a range of sectors, including oil and gas, healthcare, shipping and retail.
Investor-state arbitration
Joseph has provided expert advice for both claimant and respondent in a number investment arbitrations across multiples sectors, including mining, energy and tobacco production.
Expert determination
Joseph has provided binding valuations as an independent expert in shareholder dispute contexts.
Other valuation experience
Joseph has provided valuation advice in non-contentious contexts, including in relation to a large demerger of an asset manager and insurer, financial reporting of an oil supermajor, valuation of asset managers in relation to employee compensation schemes and advisory valuations in relation to M&A transactions.
Example of engagements
- Instructed as expert for Claimants in ICC arbitration relating to the termination of a PPP concession agreement for the provision of hospital services in Southern Europe
- Instructed as expert for Claimant in DIS arbitration relating to the purchase price paid for a care home business in a transaction in which the sellers allegedly failed to disclose non-compliance with key staffing ratios to the buyer
- Instructed as expert for Claimant in UK high court litigation relating to losses arising from damage to a section of pipeline in Wales
- Instructed as expert for Claimant in UK high court litigation relating to a loss of chance claim in relation to the sales of telephony and data services to UK public sector customers
- Instructed as independent expert in binding valuation of minority shares in a UK distressed debt and special situation hedge fund
- Valuation and damages advice to investor regarding investment returns and financial modelling in negotiations with the government in relation to its investment in a bauxite mine and commitment to develop an alumina refinery in W. Africa
- Support to expert acting for Claimant in an expropriation claim in relation to a lead and zinc mine in North Macedonia.
- Support to expert acting for Respondent in an expropriation claim in relation to a coal-based power plant and adjacent coal mine in Southern Africa
- Support to expert acting for Claimant in UK high court litigation relating to the valuation of Russian upstream oil assets allegedly sold at an undervalue
- Support to expert acting for Claimants in Trinidad and Tobago litigation relating to the valuation of ammonia production business allegedly sold at an undervalue
- Support to expert acting for Claimant in a SIAC arbitration relating to construction and delivery of semi-submersible crane vessels
- Support to expert in a SIAC arbitration relating to an impugned transaction within the Indian retail sector
- Support to expert in DIS arbitration regarding alleged reneging of long term agreement to supply parts to an automotive original equipment manufacturer
- Support to expert acting for Claimant assessing damages arising from breach of a farmout agreement relating to offshore oil assets in Brazil
- Support to expert in a LCIA arbitration in relation to a post-M&A dispute relating to North Sea oil assets
- Support to expert acting for Claimant in UK high court litigation relation to breach of warranty claim following the acquisition of a UK IT business
- Support to expert acting for Claimant in UK high court litigation relation to professional negligence claim made against the independent expert in the valuation of minority shares in a UK telephony company