Shane holds a CAANZ (Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand) Certificate of Public Practice. In 1997, Shane formed Hussey & Co, a boutique chartered accounting firm specialising in providing expert financial opinions, most often in relation to financial disputes.
For more than 20 years, Shane has been one of New Zealand’s leading expert witnesses providing expert evidence before the courts and other tribunals. Shane has provided expert opinions in relation to disputes (ranging from matrimonial disputes to large and complicated commercial disputes) in relation to more than 1,000 separate disputes, attended hundreds of mediations (where he got to observe some of New Zealand’s best mediators in action) and given expert testimony more than 150 times.
As well as his expert opinion work, Shane regularly gives advice to businesses in terms of business structures and sometimes in relation to the establishing, buying/selling and merging of businesses. Such will often require creative thinking in terms of developing outcomes that benefit both parties to a transaction and, as such, has a natural overlap with mediation.
Shane now also acts as a mediator.
Relevant to mediating relationship property disputes, Shane’s expertise includes quantifying:
- the value of businesses and business interests;
- claims that separate property has become relationship property (s.9A claims), including tracing exercises;
- income disparity positions (s.15 claims); and
- claims involving the value of property disposed of to trusts.
