Prior to founding Dunderave, Ben was Head of the Attestation (tax and accounting) and Expert Teams of Valuation Consulting, a boutique valuation firm with an established reputation for tax and specifically, HMRC compliant valuations.

He started working on valuations whilst at KPMG in their Private Equity Group, providing assurance over the valuations of mid-tier Private Equity houses investments and working on a number of transactions, before joining CVR Global (as acquired by Begbies Traynor) where he specialised in expert and advisory valuations in the context of insolvency, administration and restructuring engagements.

Mr Macnaghten is:

1. An Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
2. A Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Business and Share Valuation Pathway)
3. An Associate Member of The Academy of Experts
4. An Editor of The Valuer
5. A Member of BVIUK’s Future Directions on Business Valuation Board

Mr Macnaghten was also the Chairman of VRG’s Litigation Committee in 2025 and has delivered numerous webinars, presentations, and authored published articles on business and share valuation related matters.

Prior to his involvement in valuations, he started his career at Moore Stephens (now part of BDO) where he trained and qualified as a Chartered Accounant.

About us

• Dunderave delivers trusted business and share valuation services for tax, advisory, accounting and litigation purposes.
• Our experienced team brings together substantial professional and real world valuation expertise.
• We work with top private equity, legal, accounting and tax advisory firms, and also directly with founders and management teams.
• We are trusted to deliver clear, timely, and high quality valuation opinions across a range of complex scenarios.
• Our valuations are predicated using market leading data to ensure the highest levels of accuracy.

What we do

• Management share schemes
• Single Joint Expert and Party Appointed litigation support
• EMI, CSOP and other tax advantaged share option schemes
• Voting, dividend and capital rights in shares and shareholdings
• Ordinary and other classes of shares for tax planning purposes
• Carried interest awards
• Employee Ownership Trust
• Buy and sell side valuation consultancy
• Deferred and contingent consideration

• Portfolio valuation services