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

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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Restructuring
Grant Thornton is Ireland’s leading provider of insolvency and corporate recovery solutions.

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| 4 min read | 06 Dec 2023

Audit and Assurance

Our audit approach combines the rigorous standards of professional independence and objectivity, with a methodology that focuses on critical risk areas and...

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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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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.

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Financial Services

Grant Thornton’s offering to the financial services industry is unique in that our team brings a wide range of experience with backgrounds in banking,...

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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.
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.
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.
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.
Financial Services Audit
Our Financial Services Audit team offers expertise and knowledge along with a horizontal approach to solving clients’ problems and queries.
Financial Services Consulting
We work closely with clients to understand their strategy and benchmark their performance against the very best international standards.
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.
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.
Pension Audit
The Grant Thornton Pension Audit team has vast experience in managing schemes and preparing annual reports on them for clients.
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.
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.
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.
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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Tax

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...

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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Grant Thornton Ireland has approximately 3,000 people, in 9 offices across Ireland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Bermuda, and a presence in over 140 countries...

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Experience

Stephen joined Grant Thornton in 2009 as a director within the Advisory department and was admitted to the partnership in 2012. He spent ten years within a professional services firm in the UK where he undertook a central role in the management and development of the insolvency department. Today Stephen leads the firms Financial Services Advisory offering.

Sector experience

He specialises in advising companies in financial distress providing innovative and practical turnaround solutions.

Stephen also leads statutory insolvency appointments such as examinerships, receiverships and liquidations. His advisory sector experience includes;

construction;
financial services;
funds;
leisure;
manufacturing;
pensions;
printing;
property services; and
retail.

Stephen is an expert on personal insolvency in Ireland and is one of Ireland's leading Personal Insolvency Practitioners.

Qualifications

Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK (FCCA UK)
Bachelor of Arts Honours degree (BA) in Business Studies from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Stephen is authorised by the Insolvency Service of Ireland to carry on practice as a personal insolvency practitioner.

Latest Articles

Financial Services Advisory Small Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP): The Company and Director’s Perspective

The Small Company Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP) supports directors of SMEs in restructuring their respective companies in an efficient and cost-effective manner, thereby enabling them to continue to trade.

Stephen Tennant

| 27 Sep 2023

Financial Services Advisory Small Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP): The Creditor’s Perspective

Small Company Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP) is a new restructuring process available to small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), and it is likely to negatively impact creditors in relation to funds outstanding as at the date the process commences.

| 4 min read | 26 Sep 2023

Small Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP): Is It the Cheaper, Quicker and More Efficient Restructuring Process for SME’s?

Financial Services Advisory Small Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP): Is It the Cheaper, Quicker and More Efficient Restructuring Process for SME’s?

The Government introduced the Small Company Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP) to provide a restructuring option to SMEs similar to the examinership process; however, SCARP is quicker, more cost-effective and does not require the close oversight of the Court. It is an accessible restructuring option for SMEs, proving successful thus far with more than 70% of cases in 2022 having been approved by creditors.

Stephen Tennant

| 25 Sep 2023