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Aviation Advisory
Our dedicated Aviation Advisory team bring best-in-class expertise across modelling, lease management, financial accounting and transaction execution as well as technical services completed by certified engineers.
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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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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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Financial Accounting and Advisory
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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Risk Advisory
Our Risk Advisory team delivers innovative solutions and strategic insights for the Financial Services sector, addressing disruptive forces, regulatory changes, and emerging trends to enhance risk management and foster competitive advantage.
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Sustainability Advisory
Our Sustainability Advisory team works with clients to accelerate their sustainability journey through innovative and pragmatic solutions.
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Asset management Asset management of the futureIn today’s global asset management landscape, there is an almost constant onslaught of change and complexity. To combat such complex change, asset managers need a consolidated approach. Read our publication and find out more about what you can achieve by choosing to work with us.
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Internal Audit Maintaining Compliance with New EU Pension Directive IORP IIOn 28 April 2021, the Irish Government transposed IORP II (Institution for Occupational Retirement Provision), an EU directive on the activities and supervision of pension schemes, into law.
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Risk, Compliance and Professional Standards FRED 82 – Periodic Updates to FRS 100 – 105The concept of a new suite of standards for the UK and Ireland, aligning with international financial reporting standards, was first conceived in 2002
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Audit and Assurance Auditor transition: how to achieve a smooth changeoverAppointing new auditors may seem like a daunting task that will be disruptive to your business and a drain on the finance function. Nevertheless, there are a multitude of reasons to consider a change, including simply seeking a ‘fresh look’ at the business.
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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
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.
Experience
Charlie trained with Grant Thornton in Belfast having joined the Firm in 1992.
Post qualification Charlie moved as a Senior Consultant to Capita Management Consultants in Belfast. In this role he undertook a range of corporate finance and consultancy assignments for a range of private and public sector clients. Assignments included mergers & acquisitions, due diligence, fundraising, grant support, economic appraisals and evaluations.
In May 2009 Charlie re-joined Grant Thornton in Belfast to build its Corporate Finance department. In the time since appointment, Charlie has been involved in working with some of the major corporates in Northern Ireland as well as supporting a range of SME businesses with their growth and exit strategies. As well as undertaking merger & acquisition, due diligence and fundraising activity, Charlie has worked with a number of financial institutions conducting reviews and successfully implementing turnaround plans. Charlie has an established and active contact network of banks, private equity providers, solicitors and governmental representatives.
Between 2006 and 2011, Charlie was an active member of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce Council and acted as Chair of the Enterprise and Finance Sub Committee for 2 years. In this role, he lobbied on behalf of the Chamber and its members in relation to key economic policies.
Charlie currently is running the Funding for Growth Programme in Northern Ireland on behalf of Intertrade Ireland and is involved as a Panel Member with the BVCA Awards process for the Northern Ireland region.
Sector experience
Charlie has significant transactional experience having worked on over 100 transactions within Grant Thornton, with clients ranging from PLC clients to SME businesses.
Charlie specialises in the following areas:
- advising on acquisitions/management buy-outs;
- advising on corporate disposals;
- fundraising with banks, private equity, mezzanine funders and Invest NI;
- advising on strategic planning issues and feasibility studies;
- valuations;
- financial appraisals;
- business reviews and transaction support assignments; and
- managing the turnaround of a business and making it profitable.
- FCA member of Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI).
- Bachelor of Science degree (BSc) from Queens University
- Master of Accountancy (MAcc) from Queens University
- Corporate Finance qualification from ICAEW