Hall Chadwick bolsters its Forensics practice with three senior additions
Professional services firm Hall Chadwick has added two new partners to its forensic practice courtesy of the promotion of Kirrilly Waring and recruitment of Tim Myers from Deloitte.
Both based out of Sydney, Myers joins Hall Chadwick after spending the past three and a half years as a principal at Deloitte, while Waring joined the firm two years ago following more than two decades at valuations specialist Lonergan Edwards & Associates.
As per the firm’s website, the pair extend Hall Chadwick’s forensics partner and director numbers to eight – including Daniel Nott who also last year crossed from Deloitte – while Lalitha Samykanno has also recently rejoined the practice from Cor Cordis as a director in Perth.
Tim Myers
A business information systems graduate of the University of Wollongong, Myers brings more than two decades of experience to the firm, having kicked off his career at McGrathNicol in 2005 followed by a stint at KPMG acquisition Ferrier Hodgson and then thirteen years at KordaMentha, where he was a director prior to joining Deloitte as a principal at the start of 2023.
With a self-described passion for technology, Myers combines expertise in digital forensics, eDiscovery and incident response, including deep knowledge of data preservation and analysis from electronic devices and computer systems, to serves stakeholders in large insolvency matters and other investigations, including for corporates, law enforcement, and regulatory bodies.
Kirrilly Waring
Waring’s career meanwhile dates back almost three decades to Arthur Andersen’s audit division, which she joined in 1997 after completing an economics degree with Macquarie. A three year stint in forensic accounting at Horwath followed, before she then joined specialist valuations and expert reports boutique Lonergan Edwards upon its establishment out of Coopers & Lybrand in 2001.
Crossing to Hall Chadwick as an associate in early 2024, Waring serves individual clients and organisations of various stripes and across a broad range of industries on dispute matters, including as to valuations and the quantification of damages and economic loss reports for personal injury, institutional abuse, workplace disputes, class actions, and commercial litigation.
“Kirrilly has demonstrated a strong commitment to growing the firm’s forensic accounting services, particularly in the area of valuations for dispute matters and economic loss, which is a valuable asset to the firm and is highly regarded in the industry,” Hall Chadwick said, further noting both Waring’s speedy progression to partner and her promotion being ‘out of season’.
Lalitha Samykanno
A double threat, Samykanno has returned to Hall Chadwick following an earlier fifteen-month stint as a senior associate from early 2024, which was preceded by more than a decade and a half in insolvency & restructuring at RSM before tacking to forensics and investigations and back again. After the past year spent at Cor Cordis, she rejoins Hall Chadwick, this time back in forensics.
