Chris Phillips
Advisor, Corporate Intelligence & Insolvency
Chris Phillips’ early career was spent as a detective in the Metropolitan Police where he specialised in combatting national and international organised crime groups. Having left law enforcement and after a few years in the commercial investigation sector, Chris set up Carnoustie Consultants Limited in 2000 to provide boutique business intelligence and litigation support services.
Chris joined Grant Thornton in September 2019 following its acquisition of Carnoustie, and co-head the firm’s corporate intelligence team. His team provided corporate intelligence services to support global forensic, insolvency and asset recovery investigations.
Chris prides himself in bespoke high quality, cost-effective and strategic solutions mainly to corporate and professional clients in the accountancy and legal sectors. His client base includes high net worth individuals, and foreign states. Chris’ team set themselves apart from others in the marketplace by focusing on data analytics and forensic investigation, which bolsters our expertise and portfolio of services.
Corporate recovery and insolvency are Chris’ areas of speciality, having led teams that identify millions of pounds worth of assets from around the world. They had particular success working on the so-called ‘carousel frauds’ which are typically complex tax frauds across multiple jurisdictions. Chris’ team was also instructed around other areas such as intellectual property issues, matrimonial and shareholders disputes, crypto-currency investment fraud and complex matters of theft and misappropriation of funds.
Chris’ role is focused on bringing the same values which made Carnoustie such a success to his team’s wider network and its clients, whilst enhancing Crystal Vantage’s global investigations and asset recovery practice.
