Charles Larminie is a Director at Osborne Partners, A Delta Consulting Group Company. He has seven years of experience providing valuation, financial, and economic analysis in complex commercial disputes and international arbitration. His work focuses on business and shareholder valuation, the quantification of lost profits and other economic damages, and the analysis of financial and accounting issues.
Charles has worked on matters across a broad range of industries, including energy, oil and gas, metals and mining, financial services, fintech, cryptocurrency, insurance, healthcare, and consumer goods. His experience includes shareholder and investment disputes, contractual claims, expropriation matters, and disputes involving changes to government incentive and regulatory regimes.
- Preparation of expert reports during a class action proceeding brought by shareholders relating to alleged deficiencies in asset impairment testing, asset valuation and financial reporting by an ASX-listed mining and steel group.
- Preparation of expert reports concerning the valuation of an alleged indirect minority interest in a global cryptocurrency exchange business in HKIAC arbitration proceedings.
- Preparation of expert reports covering economic, financial and valuation analyses in a UNCITRAL arbitration concerning alleged losses arising from alternative development plans for a major offshore oil field in Western Asia.
- Preparation of expert reports concerning the quantification of alleged lost profits arising from long-term gas supply arrangements and associated contractual disputes in the energy sector.
- Preparation of expert reports concerning the valuation of a consumer-goods business and the quantification of alleged losses arising from treaty breaches in ICSID arbitration proceedings.
- Valuation of claims arising from the alleged expropriation of a South American oil and energy business.
- Preparation of expert reports concerning alleged losses arising from the termination of franchise, development and distribution arrangements for nutritional supplement products across the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore.
- Preparation of an expert report concerning the valuation of shareholder interests and historic share transfers in an international oilfield-services group.
- Preparation of expert reports concerning alleged losses arising from interference with petroleum development rights in the UK.
- Preparation of expert reports concerning alleged losses arising from the departure of insurance agents from a financial-services business.
- Preparation of expert reports during legal proceedings concerning alleged collusion between telecommunications market participants and the resulting economic effects on affected parties.
- Preparation of expert reports concerning the valuation of losses arising from retrospective changes to government incentive schemes for renewable power producers in a European country.
Education
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University of Oxford
MChem in Chemistry
Languages
English