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Jacqui Record

Senior Managing Director

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Jacqui Record is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura focused on disputes and investigations. She has been based in the Middle East for the last 13 years and has more than 30 years of expert witness and forensic investigation experience, mainly in the Big 4 across the UK, Middle East, and Africa.

Experience

As an accounting expert, Jacqui has provided expert evidence numerous times in a wide variety of forums around the world and is listed in Who’s Who Legal’s lists of worldwide recognized arbitration, construction, and investigation experts. She has mainly focused on construction, real estate, hospitality and leisure, oil and gas, and shareholder/JV disputes. She has acted as an expert assessor and has been a court appointed and party appointed expert on large Middle East court matters.

Jacqui has led many large and high-profile forensic investigations in various sectors across the Middle East and around the world, including asset tracing, sanctions, and large-scale data collections and review.

Jacqui’s selected professional experience includes:

Expert Appointments

  • Appointed expert for the respondent, the employer, in an ICC UK arbitration, to assess the loss of profits on the delayed construction of a large Middle East petrochemical plant.
  • Appointed expert, acting for the claimant, a well-known international contractor against the developer in a DIFC-LCIA arbitration assessing loss of funds and claimed losses associated with the construction of a well-known mixed use Middle East development.
  • Appointed expert, acting for the respondent, a Middle East government on an ICSID arbitration in relation to the development of land, to assess the claimants’ shareholding.
  • Appointed as a Dubai senior court appointed expert in a large shareholder dispute for a multinational family-owned business group to assess the minority shareholder value and investigate any leakage of value.
  • Appointed expert regarding a shareholder dispute between a Middle East joint venture and an international consumer products company. The work included preparing reports for both local and international arbitrations and local court.
  • Appointed expert for the claimant, a Middle East oil and gas entity, in an ICC UK matter to assess quantum on a terminated power plant. This included assessing loss of profits and costs due to the delay and subsequent termination of the contract.
  • Appointed expert by the claimant in an LCIA arbitration regarding the delayed completion of a Dubai based mixed use tower including residential, retail and hotel/hotel apartments, assessing loss of profits on the delayed/terminated development.
  • Appointed expert for the claimant, the owner of two Middle East hotels in an DIFC-LCIA arbitration in relation to the termination of the operator agreement assessing the loss of profits and financial statement fraud.
  • Appointed expert, for the claimant, an international hotel operator in a DIFC-LCIA arbitration assessing the loss of profit on a terminated operation agreement.
  • Appointed expert for the respondent, a Middle East property developer, in an ICC UK matter to assess the loss of profit claim due to the cancellation of a marketing agreement.
  • Appointed expert by the respondent in a DIAC arbitration in relation to a halted development of a Dubai residential and hotel development for a Middle East developer, including assessing loss of profits of the JV partners.
  • Expert assessor assisting the South African Public Protector regarding the highly publicized Strategic Fuel Fund investigation. This included verbal and written reporting to Parliament on two separate occasions.

Investigations

  • Investigation of theft of significant Middle East government funds and subsequent money laundering activities involving the U.S., UK, and international banks and assets. The work included assisting in reports to the DOJ and local government investigating units and various banking regulators.
  • Forensic investigation and sanctions review for a large Middle East parastatal. Work included utilizing forensic technology investigative techniques to collate, host, and analyze huge amounts of data.
  • Forensic expert, acting for the plaintiff, a Swiss trust, regarding the fraud and mismanagement of the investment advisor on real estate investments, including providing extensive expert witness testimony in High Court.
  • Forensic investigation and expert witness testimony for an African bank regarding financial statement fraud in the acquisition of a leasing company.
  • Forensic investigation of a property subsidiary of a large bank involving fraud by the top executives. This included provision of extensive expert witness testimony in civil and criminal proceedings.
  • Forensic investigation for international oil logistics company including financial statement restatement and provision of expert witness testimony in criminal court.
  • Investigation/dispute advisory regarding potential claims on a large transport infrastructure project including cash flow and cost reviews.
Education
  • BSc, Hons., Economics and Accountancy, City University, London
Honors & Awards
  • Who’s Who Legal says: “Jacqui Record is highly regarded by respondents to our research thanks to her excellent ability on fraud and loss-of-profit investigations.”
  • “Jacqui is ‘a very impressive practitioner’ who commentators state ‘is excellent at forensic accounting for construction disputes’.”
Certifications
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW), Fellow
Affiliations
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), Associate Member

Thought Leadership

News & Events

December 13, 2023

Ankura Experts Attain Global Recognition as Top Arbitration Advisors

Ankura is pleased to announce that Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2024 has recognized 25 of its professionals in the prestigious Arbitration Expert Witness category. This recognition, a 39% increase from 2023, reflects the continued growth and success of our global disputes team. The named professionals have been categorized as globally recommended Expert Witnesses for complex ...

October 3, 2023

66 Ankura Advisors Acknowledged by Who’s Who Legal as Leading Consulting Experts

Ankura is pleased to announce that 66 of our professionals have earned a well-deserved spot among advisors worldwide in the Who’s Who Legal: Consulting Experts 2023 list. This recognition highlights the exceptional depth of our advisory services spanning diverse sectors and geographical regions. This recognition underscores the parallel proficiency in several critical areas including: Forensic ...

September 16, 2022

45 Ankura Advisors Acknowledged by Who’s Who Legal as Leading Consulting Experts

Ankura is pleased to announce that 45 of its professionals have been named among the top professional advisors worldwide in the Who’s Who Legal: Consulting Experts 2022 list. This ranking exemplifies Ankura’s depth of multidisciplinary advisory experience across various sectors and geographies with experts from Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas receiving recognition ...

May 2, 2022

Outstanding Ankura Construction Experts Acknowledged by Who’s Who Legal

Ankura is pleased to announce that 20 of its professionals have been named among the top construction advisors worldwide in the Who’s Who Legal: Construction 2022 list. This ranking demonstrates Ankura experts’ decades of unparalleled industry experience, wide-ranging knowledge, and global perspective to help clients resolve the most challenging issues they face around the world. ...

September 1, 2021

40 Ankura Professional Advisors Recognized by Who’s Who Legal as Leading Consulting Experts

Ankura is home to industry-leading talent as underscored by the recognition of 40 professional advisors as leading consulting experts in the world by an annual award program.

June 10, 2021

Ankura Experts Recognized as Top Construction Advisors by Who’s Who Legal

Ankura offers clients premier industry talent as 18 of Ankura's professionals are recognized as the top construction advisors in the world by annual ward program.

February 24, 2021

Ankura Experts Recognized as Top Arbitration Advisors by Who’s Who Legal

The depth of Arbitration advisory at Ankura is recognized by an annual award.

July 8, 2019

44 of Ankura’s Global Professionals Recognized by Who’s Who Legal as Consulting Experts

44 Ankura professionals from the U.S., U.K., U.A.E., Singapore, and Hong Kong are recognized as consulting experts by annual award program.

April 16, 2019

Ankura Construction Professionals Recognized as Construction Leaders by Who’s Who Legal

22 Ankura professionals are recognized as leading construction experts by an annual award program.

April 11, 2019

Ankura Investigations Professionals Recognized by Who’s Who Legal

Twelve Ankura professionals are recognized as leading investigations experts by an annual award program.

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