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Corporate Finance and Deal Advisory
We offer a dedicated team of experienced individuals with a focus on successfully executing transactions for corporates and financial institutions. We offer an integrated approach, with our corporate finance specialists working seamlessly with tax and other specialists to ensure that every angle is covered.
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Digital Risk
Grant Thornton offers solutions to the digital risk issues you are sure to face. Our skilled and experienced security team can helping by advising and consulting, giving you peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to attacks.
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Technology Consulting
Motivating and assisting our clients to pursue, maintain and secure the benefits of digital solutions is at the core of our Digital Transformation teams' agenda and goals. We work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
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Economic Advisory
Our all-island Economics Advisory team combines expertise in economics and business with a wealth of experience across the public and private sectors.
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Forensic Accounting
We have a different way of doing business by delivering real insight through a combination of technical rigour, commercial experience and intuitive judgment. We take pride in delivering responsive and tailored solutions to all our clients, capitalising on the wealth of experience housed within our Belfast and wider Forensics team
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People and Change Consulting
The Grant Thornton People & Change Consulting practice works with clients on these issues as well as on all aspects of how they attract, retain, engage develop, deploy and lead their people.
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Restructuring
We work with a wide variety of clients and stakeholders such as high street banks, private equity funds, directors, government agencies and creditors to implement solutions which provide the best possible outcomes.
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Corporate and International Tax
Northern Ireland businesses face further challenges as they operate in the only part of the UK that has a land border with a country offering a lower tax rate.
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Employer Solutions
Our team specialises in remuneration and incentive planning and works closely with employers, shareholders and employees to ensure that business strategies are aligned and goals achieved in the most tax efficient, cost-effective manner.
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Entrepreneur and Private Client Taxes
Our team of experienced advisors are on hand to guide you through any decision or transaction ranging from the establishment of new business ventures, to realising value on exit, to succession planning and providing for loved ones.
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Global Mobility Services
Grant Thornton offer a different approach to managing global mobility. We have brought together specialists from our tax, global payroll, people and change and financial accounting teams across Ireland and Northern Ireland, while drawing on the knowledge and insights of our global network of over 143 offices of mobility professionals to provide you with a holistic approach to managing global mobility.
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Outsourced Payroll
Our outsourced service provides valued service to over 150 separate PAYE schemes. These ranging from 1 to 1000 employees, working for micro, SME and global employers. The service is supported by the integrated network of tax and global mobility teams and the wider Grant Thornton network delivering a seamless service. Experienced staff deliver a personal service built around your business needs.
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Tax Disputes and Investigations
Our Tax Disputes and Investigation team is made up of tax experts and former HMRC investigators who have years of experience in dealing with a variety of tax investigations. Our expertise and insight can guide you through all interactions, keeping your cost at a minimum while allowing you to continue with the day to day running of your business.
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VAT and Indirect Taxes
At Grant Thornton (NI) LLP, our team helps Northern Ireland businesses manage their UK and global indirect tax risks which, as transactional taxes, can quickly become big liabilities.
Selling a Business Trusted advice and optimised value through a bespoke, high quality sale process
Consistently ranked the most active M&A adviser in NI, our market leading corporate finance team has vast transactional and commercial experience in leading and successfully executing company sale transactions to trade buyers, private equity and management teams.
We are also the leading adviser on business sales to Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), a tax efficient and increasingly common option when considering succession planning.
Selling all or a part of your business is likely to be one of the most important deals you ever do, as well as one of the most emotionally and technically challenging. For many business owners it is a once in a lifetime event – we know exactly how it feels. Our experience, national and international networks, and trusted standing in the market all mean we are ideally placed to deliver the right outcome for you.
One of the reasons clients come to Grant Thornton is because they know that, uniquely in the market, we have done it ourselves. Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Richard Gillan acquired, re-shaped and oversaw steep changes in growth in both a manufacturing business and an outsourcing business prior to successful exits. In his career Paul Prenter has been FD of a publicly listed UK recruitment group responsible for leading and executing multiple acquisitions as part of its M&A growth strategy; and as CFO, invested in and ran a private equity backed logistics group.
We advise how best to prepare for, market and execute a business sale in order to optimise value.
We provide the full range of sell side services including:
- Planning and preparing the company for sale to minimise risk of unforeseen issues which can prove costly at a later stage
- Researching and identifying prospective buyers
- Preparing indicative valuations to inform decision making
- Managing approaches to buyers and controlling the distribution of information
- Driving the bid process
- Negotiating the optimum sales price and transaction terms
- Anticipating hurdles and bringing solutions to keep a transaction on track
- Project managing the transaction to successful completion through co-ordination and control of the due diligence and legal process
A sale process is complex and may take many months to complete. Our team’s experience, diligent planning and skilful execution will help you achieve the best outcome.
As well as lead advisory, we can provide vendor due diligence and vendor assist services to support clients during the sale of their business. Tax planning is a crucial consideration and we have the very best tax practitioners in the market who can advise on such matters.
If you are looking for a significant liquidity event through the sale of all or part of your business, or just want to know how much your business is worth, we are uniquely placed to help you. Call us any time for a confidential, no-obligation discussion.
