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Financial lifestyle analysis experts

About Pennywise Consultants

We help individuals facing uncertainty understand their situation, make informed decisions and achieve a secure financial future.

Pennywise Consultants has provided a unique and impartial financial lifestyle analysis service to top-tier law firms in the UK since 2010.

Our founder and MD, Alison Porter, started the business after being asked to investigate a ‘black hole’ in a high-profile divorce case, where a client wanted to know how much money her husband had spent on his extramarital activities. Alison’s analysis helped the client win a substantial financial settlement in the form of an ‘Add Back’.

Since then, we’ve specialised in creating and challenging detailed, accurate, evidence-based financial lifestyle analysis reports to support mediation and legal proceedings. Our service equips lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes. We help bring proceedings to a quicker conclusion, saving a fortune in legal fees.

Meet the team

Who we are

Alison Porter

Founder & MD

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants. She saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers build cases and deliver outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Her charm and energy propelled Pennywise Consultants from an unknown business to the nationally recognised and respected firm it is today.

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Suzanne Duda

Project Manager

Suzanne joined Alison a few months after Pennywise’s conception. She trained in accountancy and is Pennywise’s technical guru. She oversees all our projects and is the main point of contact for all our project work. She is completely unflappable, sympathetic, positive and a mainstay in the office.

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Kim Knight

Project Assistant

Kim has been with us since 2017. She is calm, patient, meticulous and methodical. Her painstaking attitude means she is ideally suited to working on our larger, extremely involved analysis projects. Kim also has creative flair and oversees all our marketing materials.

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Zoë Williams

Project Assistant

Zoë joined the Pennywise team in 2022 and fitted in at once. Her cheerful personality and calm persona lends itself beautifully to our Bespoke budgeting service. Our clients feel comfortable with her and ably supported when going through one of our checklists.

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Why we do it

Our values

Our business is built on our desire to empower people to achieve financial fairness. We are…

Truthfully transparent

Honesty, trust and integrity mean everything. Doing the right thing, not the easy thing, is what we’re all about.

Dependably efficient

Professional, thorough and accurate, we hold ourselves to the highest standards to help you achieve fair and just outcomes.

Comfortingly compassionate

We’re firm but fair, kind and empathetic. We’re here to help you navigate the stresses and emotions that legal proceedings can bring.

Reassuringly respectful

Tactful, non-judgemental, confidential and discreet, you can count on us to bring empathy and sensitivity at what can be an invasive, distressing and vulnerable time.

Unassumingly unflappable

We’re calm, relaxed and unruffled by pressure. We’re good listeners, natural mediators and trusted confidantes.

Work with us

Why Pennywise Consultants?

Pennywise Consultants offers comprehensive support for individuals and legal professionals in divorce, inheritance or contentious probate, and other financial disputes. When you work with us, you benefit from a team of experienced and sympathetic experts who provide an all-encompassing service that includes clear, fair and realistic financial lifestyle budgets.

With a strong reputation for providing impartial, evidence-based reports for mediation and court hearings, our unique service is trusted by top-tier law firms in England and Wales.

We can help you achieve a fair resolution, save time and money, and negotiate from a position of strength.