James Calderwood is a Senior Consultant at Osborne Partners, A Delta Consulting Group Company, with more than seven years of experience providing valuation, damages and financial analysis in contentious and non-contentious matters. His experience includes commercial and investment treaty arbitration, litigation and expert determinations, including work as a named expert. He has advised on post-M&A disputes, lost profits, wasted costs, breach of warranty claims, class actions, valuation matters and forensic investigations.
James has worked across a range of industries, including oil and gas, healthcare and life sciences, financial services, real estate, defense, tourism and hospitality and aviation. His work includes business and shareholding valuation, transaction-related claims, investment disputes and complex financial and accounting analysis.
- Served as the named expert in Singapore court proceedings involving the valuation of a minority shareholding in a food and beverage business for purposes of quantifying the pool of marital assets.
- Valued a minority shareholding in a privately held multibillion-dollar Indonesian agribusiness pursuant to a buyout order issued by the Singapore High Court.
- Assessed losses suffered by two sovereign wealth funds in a post-transaction dispute involving alleged accounting fraud and misrepresentations by the management of an Indonesian pharmacy and diagnostic testing business in SIAC arbitration proceedings.
- Calculated a disputed two-year earnout arising from the sale of an equity derivatives trading business in an expert determination and supported related litigation before the Supreme Court of Gibraltar involving the closeout of a professional investor during the COVID-19 equity market turmoil.
- Assessed losses suffered by a private equity fund arising from the alleged indirect creeping expropriation of its investment in an Indian aviation ground handling services company in UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings before the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
- Assessed losses suffered by a class of approximately 650,000 claimants arising from the alleged misselling of car insurance add-on products in proceedings before the Federal Court of Australia.
- Assessed losses suffered by the Iranian government arising from the cancellation of the Foreign Military Sales program between the United States and Iran in proceedings before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal.
Education
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University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Credentials
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Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
Awards
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Winning Expert, Delos Dispute Resolution Cross-Examination Course, Asia 2024 Remote Oral Advocacy Programme
Languages
English