Evelyn Partners

Evelyn Partners are the UK and Ireland’s leading integrated wealth management and professional services group. We look after the combined wealth and tax needs of our clients and provide specialist accountancy, assurance, tax and advisory services for businesses. Our clients range from online investors to those requiring bespoke wealth management, and from charities to entrepreneurs and corporate businesses.

As a founding member of CLA Global, Evelyn Partners provides a truly international service. Being a part of this leading worldwide network of independent firms, we are well positioned and have extensive experience to support you with your international requirements.

Our experts combine experience of investigating criminal and civil cases with exceptional technical know-how, supported by the latest technologies. Our forensic technology team provides technically focused solutions to issues surrounding the recovery, retention, investigation and presentation of electronic data, both in investigations and during the disclosure process.

Our team’s wide range of expertise enables them to offer a comprehensive forensic accounting service that includes:
• corporate fraud investigations
• asset tracing
• insolvency investigations
• regulatory and disciplinary investigations
• computer forensic investigations
• share valuations
• shareholder disputes
• marital separations
• fraud and financial crime
• commercial disputes
• valuations in commercial disputes
• valuations in divorce proceedings
• forensic technology
• personal injury
• loss of profits and loss of earnings claims
• liquidations

OUR EXPERT
Mr Stephen Scott
Partner, Restructuring and Recovery Services

Stephen Scott has over 25 years’ experience across a number of sectors working on forensic investigations, formal insolvency appointments and informal advisory work.

Prior to joining Evelyn Partners he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in a Big 4 firm subsequently working for almost 15 years in its Corporate Recovery Department. He then moved to a top 10 firm acting as an appointment taking Insolvency Practitioner managing a diverse portfolio of cases.

He has worked on numerous forensic investigations, advisory and formal insolvency assignments. He is a founding member of the Restructuring Insolvency Ireland currently sitting on its ruling Council and Law Reform Committee.

Areas of expertise include; litigation support; investigations; asset search; formal insolvency (liquidations, receiverships, examinerships and bankruptcies) and informal restructuring.  
• Litigation Support: Provided expert witness services in respect of recalculation of interest charges.
• Investigations: Conducted a detailed investigation and provided expert litigation support in relation to calculation of losses stemming from a car park fraud.
• Litigation support assignment in relation to termination of a contract and loss of profits claim in respect of a building contractor.
• Asset Search: Multi- jurisdictional asset tracing and improper asset transfer investigations.
• Investigated a computer company invoice discounting fraud involving duplicate invoices and cross border transactions.
• Investigation into misappropriation of client monies at a spread betting company.
• Investigation of an animal feeds manufacturer that involved duplicate books of account, balance sheet window dressing and understatement of liabilities.
• Resulting Trust investigation into misappropriation of Company funds used to purchase valuable property assets that led to a multi-million euro settlement.

Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, Diploma in Investigation and Forensic Accounting, Diploma in Insolvency, Certificate in Personal Insolvency and Corporate Finance Diploma

Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland holding a CAI Insolvency Practicing Certificate (Stephen Scott).