Connor Doran is a Senior Consultant at Osborne Partners, A Delta Consulting Group Company. He specializes in valuation, damages assessment and financial analysis in complex commercial disputes. His experience includes business and asset valuation, shareholder disputes, lost profits, solvency assessments and financial and accounting analysis.
Connor has worked across a range of industries, including oil and gas, metals and mining, financial services, real estate, telecommunications, shipping and consumer goods. He has supported the preparation of expert reports in international arbitration, litigation and other disputes involving complex valuation, financial and economic issues.
- Prepared expert reports in class action proceedings brought by shareholders concerning alleged deficiencies in asset impairment testing, asset valuation and financial reporting by an ASX-listed mining and steel group.
- Prepared expert reports in an LCIA arbitration concerning the valuation of a planned luxury real estate development in Montenegro.
- Prepared expert reports in an LCIA arbitration assessing alleged losses arising from interference with coal-bed methane development rights and petroleum licences in Wales.
- Prepared expert reports quantifying alleged lost profits arising from long-term gas supply arrangements and associated contractual disputes in the Middle East energy sector.
- Prepared expert reports valuing an early-stage fintech company in Southeast Asia in connection with a shareholder dispute in SIAC arbitration proceedings.
- Prepared an expert report assessing lost profits and a reasonable royalty in a telecommunications dispute in India involving alleged patent infringement and licensing issues.
- Prepared an expert report assessing the solvency of a group of businesses following the acquisition of steel assets, including analysis of the financing obtained to fund the acquisition.
- Prepared an expert report assessing losses arising from the termination of an agreement for the development of a mixed-use real estate project in Sierra Leone.
- Prepared expert reports assessing alleged losses arising from fraudulent trading and accounting practices in the oil trading sector.
- Advised on a completion accounts dispute involving the sale of a shipping management company that was referred to an independent accountant for determination.
Education
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Durham University
LLB in Law
Credentials
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Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
Languages
English