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Audit and Assurance
Corporate accounting and outsourcing
Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS)
Financial Services
Private Client Services
Tax and legal
U.S. Irish Business Group

Advisory

As your business grows, our advisory services are designed to help you achieve your goals.

Business Consulting
Our Consulting team guarantees quick turnarounds, lower partner-to-staff ratio than most and superior results delivered on a range of services.
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.
Corporate Finance
Our experienced Corporate Finance team has provided a range of transaction, valuation, deal advisory and restructuring services to clients for the past two decades.
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.
Digital Transformation
Our Digital Transformation team work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
Forensic and Investigation Services
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.
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.
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.
Restructuring
Grant Thornton is Ireland’s leading provider of insolvency and corporate recovery solutions.

Corporate accounting and outsourcing

At Grant Thornton we have extensive knowledge and experience in providing tailored solutions to our clients, whether on a short-term or long-term basis.

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

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.

Audit and Accounting Advisory
Our Audit and Accounting Advisory team takes the headache out of multi-jurisdictional audit compliance requirements as well as technical compliance with accounting standards and legislation for clients.
Business Process Outsourcing
Grant Thornton’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) team serves the needs of rapidly growing mid-tier multinationals operating out of Ireland and other hubs through the provision of services across the full range of finance functions.
Flexible People Solutions
At Grant Thornton, our Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS) department have a dedicated team that help finance functions maximise efficiency.
Global Compliance & Reporting Solutions
Our Global Compliance & Reporting Solutions service offering covers a full suite of compliance services including financial statement preparation and related filings, dual bookkeeping, direct and indirect tax, statistical returns and payroll.
Global Payroll Solutions
At Grant Thornton, we meet the challenges of our clients. Our Global payroll compliance service offering is tailored to meet all your payroll requirements through a single point of contact.

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...

Grant Thornton Financial Counselling
Grant Thornton Financial Counselling (GTFC) comprises a team of highly qualified professionals who offer financial advice to individuals and corporates across a range of areas including savings, investments, pension planning, and inheritance and succession planning.
Inheritance Planning
Our services on Inheritance Planning mirror those on Succession Planning whereby the foundations of the plan are derived from meaningful conversations with those that wish to pass on or protect their asset base.
Personal Tax Compliance & Planning
The Grant Thornton Personal Tax team helps clients remain compliant and up to date with all of their tax obligations whilst ensuring that they are solutions driven and manage their finances in the most tax efficient way possible.
Succession Planning
We have extensive experience guiding our clients successfully through the succession process. This involves advice on both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the process. While there is a business at the core of each succession plan we advise on, it is all predicated on understanding the people and their respective wishes.

Tax and legal

Grant Thornton Ireland has a team of over 100 tax professionals providing advice to a diverse range of clients, including sole traders, small and medium sized...

Company Secretarial
Grant Thornton’s Company Secretarial team contains qualified Company Secretaries. Clients are assured that they will meet all of their obligations under the Companies Acts and other relevant legislation and regulations.
Corporation Tax
Our Corporation Tax team is made up of more than 40 highly experienced senior partners and directors who work directly with a wide range of domestic, international, and financial services clients. We place a strong emphasis on direct service to clients and we pride ourselves on the close personal relationships we build and the deep understanding of their businesses we develop
Employer Solutions
Attracting and retaining key talent, managing employment costs and ensuring compliance with complex tax rules presents one of the most serious challenges today for many businesses. You need to ensure that your business complies with increasingly complex tax legislation and can adapt to updated Revenue guidance in a cost-effective way and we are here to help.
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.
Global Mobility Services
Grant Thornton Ireland 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.
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.
Tax Advisory
The Grant Thornton Tax Advisory team blends commercial experience and knowledge with tax expertise to advise clients on the full range of transactions including sales, mergers, restructurings and succession planning.
Tax Incentives
Our Tax Incentives team help clients access vital cash funding and tax incentives to enable them to achieve their growth ambition.
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.
Real Estate Tax Advisory
The Irish real estate market has experienced considerable change in recent years. This has resulted in the emergence of a number of challenges for investors, but has also brought about significant opportunities. With this in mind, taxation is now more than ever one of the key factors for real estate investors when appraising investments, financing methods and development structuring.

Experience

David joined Grant Thornton in 2013 and is a Director within the Corporate Finance team. He has over 14 years experience working in audit, corporate finance, project finance and renewable energy financing. David has significant experience in project / structured finance and is responsible for managing the financial close process for projects with specific focus on renewable energy projects.

Sector Experience

In recent years David has advised on transactions within the Irish renewable energy sector in relation to raising both project finance debt and equity finance equating to over 250MW in installed capacity and over €350m in finance raised. He has also provided support in relation to a number of sell-side transactions involving operational wind farm projects, including the sale of a 54MW wind farm in County Fermanagh which was one of the largest infrastructural transactions on the island of Ireland in 2014.

In recent years, David advised on a number of sell-side transactions involving renewable energy projects comprising c. 110MW of installed capacity. He has a strong working knowledge of the regulatory system governing the renewable energy sector in Ireland and regularly advises client in relation to securing the relevant regulatory approvals Ireland including the Integrated Single Electricity Market (“I-SEM”) and Renewable Energy Support Scheme (“RESS”). David has been involved in several power purchase agreement (PPA) procurement processes on behalf of renewable energy developers and has a strong understanding of the Integrated Single Electricity Market (I-SEM).

David also has considerable financial modelling experience which includes building financial models for project finance raises which have been subjected to lender due diligence. He has acted on due diligence assignments, most recently on behalf of Signode Industrial Group LLC in relation to two international acquisitions in the manufacturing & engineering sector.

In 2021, David worked on secondment with Bus Éireann where he assisted with the delivery of strategic projects for the Bus Éireann finance function.

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