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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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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.
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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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Global Statutory Audit
Our Global Statutory Audit team ensures your statutory audit process follows a well-defined project plan, with no surprises, to maintain compliance across multiple jurisdictions. We invest time to understand your finance function and develop bespoke solutions built on the premise of central effort to remove duplication.
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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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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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Indirect Tax Advisory & Compliance
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.
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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.
Experience
Michael is a partner in our Deal Advisory team and leads our Valuation Advisory practice in Ireland. He joined Grant Thornton in 2001 and has over 25 years M&A advisory and private equity experience. He specialises in advising entrepreneurs and corporates on both buy-side and sell-side transactions, including trade-sales, mergers, MBO’s and fund raisings.
He has been the lead advisor for a number of the firms largest sale mandates and complex vendor due diligence projects. Michael’s extensive experience has enabled him to represent corporates in a wide range of sectors including Renewables, Wholesale, Manufacturing, Technology and Healthcare. He is a member of the Grant Thornton International M&A Committee and the Grant Thornton International Valuation Steering Group.
He has also acted as Monitoring Trustee for the European Commission and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
M&A experience
- Advisor to shareholder of Vita Actives on the transaction with Dairygold Co-Operative Society Limited;
- Advisor to the shareholders on the sale of Odyssey VC to ATS Corporation;
- Advisor to the shareholders on the sale of U-Store-It to Heitman LLC;
- Advisor to the shareholders on the sale of Tailored Finance to NFP Ireland;
- Advisor to the shareholders of Castlebridge Nursing Home on the sale to Evergreen Care; and
- Advisor to NAMA on the sale of the Poolbeg development.
Valuation / Transaction Advisory experience
- Valuation advice in respect of the flotation of BioPharma Credit Plc on the London Stock Exchange (Gross Asset Value $750m);
- Valuation advice in respect of a €10bn intellectual property (IP) valuations, for a global multinational in the technology and medical devices industries;
- Valuation advice in relation to multiple Solar, Wind Farm and Infrastructure projects;
- Multiple buy side and sell side due diligence assignments for private equity houses and SME debt funds including, MML Growth Capital, H2 Equity, Renatus Capital Partners, Broadlake and Muzinich; and
- Multiple buy side and sell side due diligence assignments for corporates including Vodafone plc, UDG, and Damovo.
- Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)
- Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) from the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)