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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
Richard joined Grant Thornton in 2014 to lead the Belfast office’s advisory offering. In March 2015 he was appointed Partner in Charge of Grant Thornton in Northern Ireland.
Richard trained as a Chartered Accountant with a Big Four firm and worked in the Belfast, London and Luxembourg offices prior to joining a rival Big Four firm, during which time he was based in Belfast and Johannesburg.
In 2004 he acquired a shareholding in a manufacturing business. As Joint Managing Director, Richard took the business in to new geographical territories, leading to significant revenue and profit growth prior to a successful disposal in 2007.
In 2008 he led the acquisition of a Northern Ireland-based outsourcing company out of administration. As Managing Director, Richard was responsible for restructuring the business and returning it to healthy profitability prior to a successful exit. Richard combines this personal experience of owning and managing companies with his significant experience in helping clients transact.
He is currently Vice Chairman of the Confederation of British Industry and is a former Chair of Chartered Accountants Ulster Society.
Sector experience
Richard has extensive corporate finance and commercial experience, specialising in the following:
- advising on acquisitions/management buy-outs;
- advising on corporate disposals;
- liaising and negotiating with banks, venture capitalists and Invest NI;
- advising on strategic planning issues and feasibility studies;
- advising on family and succession plan issues;
- advising on finance raising;
- business reviews and transaction support assignments;
- investing, and creating value, in both growth and distressed businesses;
- managing the growth of a business in to new geographical territories; and
- managing the restructuring of a business and making it profitable.
- Qualified Chartered Accountant
- Accountancy degree (BSc) from The Queen’s University of Belfast
- Post-graduate diploma from The Queen’s University of Belfast