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Business Consulting
Our Consulting team guarantees quick turnarounds, lower partner-to-staff ratio than most and superior results delivered on a range of services.
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Business Risk Services
Our Business Risk Services team deliver practical and pragmatic solutions that support clients in growing and protecting the inherent value of their businesses.
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Deal Advisory
Our experienced Deal Advisory team has provided a range of transaction, valuation, deal advisory and restructuring services to clients for the past two decades.
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Digital Risk
Our Digital Risk team offer advisory and consulting solutions that give our clients peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to cyber attacks.
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Digital Transformation
Our Digital Transformation team work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
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Forensic Accounting
Our Forensic and Investigation Services team have targeted solutions to solve difficult challenges - making the difference between finding the truth or being left in the dark.
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Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a goal setting framework that helps teams, individuals and organisations set and track measurable goals.
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People and Change Consulting
Our People & Change Consulting team help clients adapt to the changing nature of the workforce - how they attract, retain, engage, develop, deploy and lead their people.
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Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS)
Our FAAS team designs and implements creative solutions for organisations expanding into new markets or undertaking functional financial transformations.
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Restructuring
Grant Thornton is Ireland’s leading provider of insolvency and corporate recovery solutions.

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Outsourced Payroll
Our outsourced payroll teams become your dedicated payroll department, aiming to process your payroll in the most cost effective and compliant manner.
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Outsourcing
Grant Thornton's reliable and cost-effective outsourcing services help you streamline your business operations by taking care of your workload.

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Actuarial
Our Actuarial team provides a comprehensive range of services to our insurance clients. From regulatory support for compliance to delivering specialist expertise in insurance & reinsurance.
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Data Analytics
Our team helps to unlock the potential of data analytics within your organisation, allowing you to be more innovative, efficient and customer-centric than ever before.
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Digital and Fintech
Our FinTech team are experts in technology and financial services and have a long track record of helping companies achieve sustained advantage.
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Digital Risk
Our Digital Risk team offer advisory and consulting solutions that give our clients peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to cyber attacks.
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Financial Services Audit
Our Financial Services Audit team offers expertise and knowledge along with a horizontal approach to solving clients’ problems and queries.
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Financial Services Consulting
We work closely with clients to understand their strategy and benchmark their performance against the very best international standards.
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FS Business Risk Services
Our FS Business Risk team have real experience of the financial services sector, through working within regulatory bodies or holding leadership positions in Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit functions.
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Grant Thornton Pensioneer Trustees Limited
The Grant Thornton Pensioneer Trustee service can offer business owners, directors and employees the opportunity to manage their own retirement choices with full transparency.
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Pension Audit
The Grant Thornton Pension Audit team has vast experience in managing schemes and preparing annual reports on them for clients.
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Prudential Risk
Our industry leading Prudential Risk team works with clients on a range of areas including regulatory reporting, regulatory authorisations, on-site investigations and data quality assurance.
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Quantitative Risk
Our Quantitative Risk team members bring a wide range of experience with many of them having backgrounds in banking, investment markets, regulation, professional practice, and academia.
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Sustainability desk
We recognise that businesses are operating at different levels of maturity when it comes to sustainability, and pride ourselves on working with our clients to develop bespoke solutions to their needs.
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Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS)
Our Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS) team designs and implements creative solutions for organisations expanding into new markets or undertaking functional financial transformations.

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Corporate Tax
Our Corporate Tax team is made up of more than 40 highly experienced senior partners and directors who work directly with a wide range of domestic and international clients; covering Corporation Tax, Company Secretarial, Employer Solutions, Global Mobility and Tax Incentives.
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Financial Services Tax
The Grant Thornton team is made up of experts who are fully up to date in terms of changing and evolving tax legislation. This is combined with industry expertise and an in-depth knowledge of the evolving financial services regulatory landscape.
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International Tax
We develop close relationships with clients in order to gain a deep understanding of their businesses to ensure they make the right operational decisions. The wrong decision on how a company sells into a new market or establishes a new subsidiary can have major tax implications.
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Private Client Services
Grant Thornton’s Private Client Services team can advise you on all areas of financial, pension, investment, succession and inheritance planning. We understand that each individual’s circumstances are different to the next and we tailor our services to suit your specific needs.
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VAT
Grant Thornton’s team of indirect tax specialists helps a range of clients across a variety of sectors including pharmaceuticals, financial services, construction and property and food to navigate these complexities.

Legal
Following the formalisation of the UK’s exit from the EU, EU legislation and judicial decisions may no longer be binding in the UK.
There will be no requirement for the UK to abide by ECJ decisions as they will no longer be bound by such decisions. A question also arises as to whether this may operate on a retrospective basis to the effect that the UK will be free to ignore unfavourable historical ECJ decisions.
Another implication for Ireland, a common law jurisdiction where the use of UK caselaw precedent is commonplace, is that UK caselaw may no longer form precedent as the UK courts are free to make decisions without referring to EU law, EU directives, and EU Regulations and/or ECJ decisions which has overarching reach in Ireland.
EU Directives and Regulations will cease to have effect. This has an almost insurmountable number of social; cultural; economic and environmental implications that make it impossible to reduce the impact to a few sentences. Suffice to say, the UK will no longer be bound by the EU rules seeking equality across socio-economic and political issues, ironically many of which were instigated in the EU by the UK in the first instance. It may of course be the case that the UK will decide to transpose some or all of these into UK domestic law.
The majority of tax reliefs, withholding tax exemptions and/or preferential treatment in our tax legislation and company law legislation are particular to companies or individuals located within the EU or in certain circumstances where there is a Double Tax Agreement (“DTA”) in place.
Once the dust has settled and the terms of the EU/UK relationship is determined, we may need to review the terms of the Irish/UK DTA and the circumstances in which transactions with the UK are not intended to be penalised. Any such overhaul would of course have to be carried out in the context of restrictions imposed on Ireland as an EU Member State and limitations on providing preferential treatment to the UK.
There are a myriad of other potential legal implications to name but a few; governing law clauses; contracts overly reliant on EU definitions and/or principles; service of proceedings; cross jurisdictional insolvencies/mergers/divisions; application of TUPE provisions on the transfer of an undertaking; competition law; and enforcement of judgements in the future. The financial services sector will need to be mindful in this regard particularly by reference to clauses in loan documentation such as definitions; grossing-up provisions; and withholding tax provisions.
Global mobility
One of the founding pillars of the EU is the free movement of people and workers within EU Member States. The severance of the relationship with the EU by the UK means that free movement of people into and out of the UK from other Member States (including Ireland) may now be restricted.
Any immigration restrictions will see working and visiting visa requirements imposed with the process likely to be similar to the existing regime for non-EU citizens. This operates in both directions; for EU citizens working and visiting the UK, and for UK citizens working and visiting EU Member States (including Ireland). This presents administrative and cost burdens for businesses that have employees that regularly travel between the two countries. It also has a knock on effect from a tourism perspective for non-business travellers.
In an environment where most businesses are increasing their global mobility, the potential barrier of UK borders will create time delays, additional administrative burden and increases costs for businesses. This only serves to make the UK less accessible and therefore one would imagine less attractive for businesses with a global and fluid workforce.
Northern Ireland
In the words of the Taoiseach Enda Kenny “…many people in Northern Ireland are deeply concerned that Northern Ireland will be outside of a project that has delivered so much for political stability, reconciliation and economic prosperity.”
Ireland and the UK have enjoyed open borders since 1920 but this special relationship looks as though it is to be committed to history as it is hard to fathom how an open border policy between our two countries could be maintained in circumstances where all other EU Member States’ borders with the UK would be closed. Where a “soft” border does not present a viable option we may see the re-introduction of a “hard” border with Northern Ireland and the possible introduction of customs posts and passport control as the border will form an external EU land border.
This could set back the years that have been plied into the integration efforts on the island of Ireland; with potential risks to peace; potential risks to cross border businesses; unknown risks to cross-border EU funding between the UK and Ireland including scientific; arts; film; transport links and cultural programmes. There have even been some murmurings that Game of Thrones will no longer be shot in Northern Ireland due to the absence of future EU funding, necessary due to the expense of filming each episode.
Enda Kenny has stated that the Irish Government will continue to work urgently and intensively with the British Government and the Northern Ireland Executive to see how collectively they can ensure that the gains of the last two decades are fully protected in whatever post-exit arrangements are negotiated.
While considered a likely outcome in the absence of a viable alternative, the “hard” border is not pre-determined and it is understood that there will be negotiations at UK and EU level to keep borders open between the North and South of the island with all three administrations sharing the common objective of wanting to preserve the Common Travel Area and an open border on the island of Ireland.