About Mike
Mike Pilgrem is a Senior Managing Director of FTI Consulting, based in London. Mr. Pilgrem works within the Economic Consulting practice. Over the last 35 years, his responsibility has included audit, financial consulting and business valuation for a range of UK and international clients in different industries.
Mr. Pilgrem has provided advice about the value of companies and their intellectual property or other intangible assets in a variety of contexts – for sale or purchase, for fiscal purposes, for financial statement disclosure, and in disputes. He has 30 years of experience in providing advice in the context of disputes, including minority shareholder actions, post-acquisition disputes, expert determinations, loss of profit claims, matrimonial matters and professional negligence claims.
Mr. Pilgrem joined the firm in 2011, following its transaction with LECG, where he was a director in its European financial advisory services practice. Mr. Pilgrem joined LECG in 2006. Prior to this Mike was a senior manager in Arthur Andersen’s economic and financial consulting group and then a director in the valuation group of Deloitte’s corporate finance practice.
Mr. Pilgrem has been appointed as expert witness and prepared reports in matters before arbitral tribunals, the English High Court and other courts, given oral testimony as an expert witness before the English High Court and arbitral tribunals under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, ICSID, UNCITRAL, the London Court of International Arbitration, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre or the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. During the course of his career, including as project manager, he has been responsible in over 100 cases for one or more expert reports produced in matters before UK or international tribunals or for written submissions to, or determinations by, experts; including some of the largest commercial claims seen in the UK.
Mr. Pilgrem is also a member of the Board of Directors (governors) of the UK’s Expert Witness Institute and its treasurer, and has served on its Finance and Operations Committee since 2016.
Mr. Pilgrem has an M.A., in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and is a chartered accountant.
Certifications
Chartered Accountant
Associations
Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Governor of The Expert Witness Institute, Member 2016
Member of The Academy of Experts, 2015
Education
M.A., Natural Sciences, Physics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, 1988
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Contact
T: +44 20 3727 1422
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Office
200 Aldersgate
Aldersgate Street
London EC1A 4HD
United Kingdom
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Expertise
Expert Testimony
International Arbitration
Valuation
Intellectual Property
Economic Consulting