"Valuation of intellectual property and other intangible assets is regarded even by the parochial standards of some European intellectual property lawyers as a highly specialist field, dominated by a relatively small number of well known and experienced practitioners. Pre-eminent amongst them is Kelvin King"
Kelvin King "extremely bright...extraordinary ability...". 1 Hare Court.
"I am a great admirer of your professional skills and reputation and take every opportunity to say so".
"The expert witnesses... I found Mr King to be an impressive witness" - Hon Mr Justice Arnold.
Kelvin joined the Government in 1970. His early career was spent with the Government's Share Valuation (SV); which is responsible for all of the private company, business, intellectual property, and intangible asset valuation requirements of Government: the Capital Taxes Office (CTO) and Policy and Management pisions. In both SV and the CTO, Kelvin held senior positions in the HQ units, dealing with the most complex cases.
He left the Government after 17 years to establish a Valuation Unit for a large accountancy practice and, before the founding of Valuation Consulting Co, was the MD of specialist valuation companies within two major international investment banks. He has undertaken corporate finance work.
Kelvin is frequently asked to lecture for professional bodies and training organisations about commercial and tax valuation. He is a contributor to many journals, television and radio. He is a contributor to books (Business Valuation Digest – Thomson, Intellectual Property Rights and Their Valuation Gresham, Due Diligence Law and Practice – Sweet & Maxwell, The Trademark Handbook amongst others).
His book Valuation and Exploitation of Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets was published by EMIS Professional Publishing in May 2003 which attracted excellent reviews.
He has been one of two separately listed UK Expert Witnesses in the areas of intellectual property and intangible asset valuation and one of the five separately listed unquoted company Experts in The Law Society (now Sweet and Maxwell) Directory of Expert Witnesses (1996-2012). He is the founder of the Society of Share and Business Valuers, Deputy Chair RICS Business Valuers, founding expert Lord Woolf's Expert Witness Institute, member of the Licensing Executive Society, Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (Associate), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Fellow and Registered Business Valuer) and international Association of Consultants, Valuers and Analysts.
He has been involved in a number of major recent cases including the professional negligence case Ball (the co-founder of The Eden Project) v Druces and Attlee concerning IPR, business valuation and royalty rates. Trademark litigation clients include Levi Strauss.
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Mary has over 10 years of corporate valuation experience and joined Valuation Consulting Co in 2009 as a Director, based in the London office. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1993 with BDO Stoy Hayward, Mary spent 4 years working in the Corporate Finance team, where she was focused on M&A. In 1997 she joined PwC Corporate Finance and specialised in corporate valuations. Mary progressed within the valuation pision to lead the Commercial and Industrial Products team.
She prepared valuation reports for private and quoted companies for a range of commercial purposes, such as M&A activity, fairness opinions, share scheme requirements and strategic option reviews. In 2001, Mary moved into investor relations, initially working as a consultant for the Maitland Consultancy, before joining Cadbury Schweppes plc in 2003 and becoming Director of Investor Relations at Old Mutual plc in 2008. Cadbury Schweppes had an active strategic and M&A agenda during this time, including the first UK to US demerger the market had seen in a decade.
Mary worked closely with senior management to ensure that the market understood the strategic rationale, practicalities and financial implications of the various management actions and regularly met with analysts and investors to explain company operations and business performance. This experience has given her an in-depth understanding of the key drivers of value and the financial and valuation models used by city analysts and investors. Mary also worked alongside the central finance teams on internal valuation models for the businesses and intangible assets held by the group.Mary is a Law Society (now Sweet and Maxwell) registered Expert Witness, member of the Society of Share and Business Valuers and RICS Registered Business Valuer.
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Ian was a senior member of the Inland Revenue's Training Team for several years.
Ian is a Law Society (now Sweet and Maxwell) registered Expert Witness, member of the Socieity of Share and Business Valuers and RICS Rigistered Business Valuer.
"Ian Brewer is an obvious expert in the matter of Share valuations and his evidence should be treated as such".
Prior to Valuation Consulting Co Ian was a Director of a specialist business valuation company in a major international investment bank. Ian Brewer is the Director in charge of Valuation Consulting Co's Northern Office.
After completing a degree at Leeds University, he joined HMRC in 1975. During his early career in Government he worked on all aspects of Inheritance Tax and then became a member of the Inland Revenue's Central Training Section. While there he undertook the Civil Service College's Training of Trainers Diploma which covered all aspects of training including distance learning and computer based training. His last job before joining the Shares Valuation was working directly for the Board of Inland Revenue on areas including the Budget and the Board's Report.
In 1991 he joined Shares Valuation. After a short time he became a member of the training team responsible for training new entrants to the pision.
This also included assisting in the writing of both the SV Training Manual and the Instructions. At the time he left SV he was working on a distance learning project to enable some of the SV training to be done at the desks instead of in the classroom. In May 1996 he joined the Leeds office of PwC.
Ian's clients and valuation work for both tax and commercial purposes took him all over the North of England. He worked for existing PwC clients and for accountancy firms and companies who did not have the necessary expertise within their own organisations. Ian lectures about the valuation of companies and intellecutal property extensively for various professional bodies and conference organisations.
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