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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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Corporate Finance and Deal Advisory
We offer a dedicated team of experienced individuals with a focus on successfully executing transactions for corporates and financial institutions. We offer an integrated approach, with our corporate finance specialists working seamlessly with tax and other specialists to ensure that every angle is covered.
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Economic Advisory
Our all-island Economics Advisory team combines expertise in economics and business with a wealth of experience across the public and private sectors.
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Forensic Accounting
We have a different way of doing business by delivering real insight through a combination of technical rigour, commercial experience and intuitive judgment. We take pride in delivering responsive and tailored solutions to all our clients, capitalising on the wealth of experience housed within our Belfast and wider Forensics team
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People and Change Consulting
The Grant Thornton People & Change Consulting practice works with clients on these issues as well as on all aspects of how they attract, retain, engage develop, deploy and lead their people.
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Restructuring
We work with a wide variety of clients and stakeholders such as high street banks, private equity funds, directors, government agencies and creditors to implement solutions which provide the best possible outcomes.
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Technology Consulting
Motivating and assisting our clients to pursue, maintain and secure the benefits of digital solutions is at the core of our Digital Transformation teams' agenda and goals. We work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
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Corporate and International Tax
Northern Ireland businesses face further challenges as they operate in the only part of the UK that has a land border with a country offering a lower tax rate.
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Employer Solutions
Our team specialises in remuneration and incentive planning and works closely with employers, shareholders and employees to ensure that business strategies are aligned and goals achieved in the most tax efficient, cost-effective manner.
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Entrepreneur and Private Client Taxes
Our team of experienced advisors are on hand to guide you through any decision or transaction ranging from the establishment of new business ventures, to realising value on exit, to succession planning and providing for loved ones.
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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.
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Outsourced Payroll
Our outsourced service provides valued service to over 150 separate PAYE schemes. These ranging from 1 to 1000 employees, working for micro, SME and global employers. The service is supported by the integrated network of tax and global mobility teams and the wider Grant Thornton network delivering a seamless service. Experienced staff deliver a personal service built around your business needs.
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Tax Disputes and Investigations
Our Tax Disputes and Investigation team is made up of tax experts and former HMRC investigators who have years of experience in dealing with a variety of tax investigations. Our expertise and insight can guide you through all interactions, keeping your cost at a minimum while allowing you to continue with the day to day running of your business.
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VAT and Indirect Taxes
At Grant Thornton (NI) LLP, our team helps Northern Ireland businesses manage their UK and global indirect tax risks which, as transactional taxes, can quickly become big liabilities.
Privacy statement – receivership appointments (Company)
The Insolvency Practitioner appointed as a receiver over the specific assets of the company acts as joint controller, with Grant Thornton (NI) LLP, in respect of your personal data. Both parties have agreed that Grant Thornton (NI) LLP shall be responsible for operating the insolvency appointment. We want to protect the privacy of all parties whose personal data we process in the course of our appointments.
Please read the following statement; it will help you to understand how we use your personal data.
About us
In this privacy statement “we”, “our”, and “us” refers to Grant Thornton (NI) LLP, the legal entity, and the Insolvency Practitioner appointed by the charge holder.
Contact details are set out below.
What personal data do we collect?
In addition to the personal data that we may receive on appointment, we may also process personal data about you that we receive from third party sources. The data we process includes:
- Contact Details – address, email address and telephone number(s)
- Personal Identification – copies of official identification, such as anti-money laundering documents for the directors of the company (e.g. passport)
- Employment Records – if you are an employee of the company we may hold your human resources records (e.g. information including name, address, date of birth, length of service, wage, pension, medical certificates)
- Company Information – including financial statements and accounts for the company (including information about directors remuneration and payment of shareholders dividends and pension funds)
- Details of Company Assets – details of the assets owned and / or managed by the company, including details of the occupants of properties (as applicable)
- Property of Financial Leases – details of the leases which the company is party to
- Revenue Details
What are the sources of your personal data?
Personal data may be obtained from you directly. In addition, personal data may be provided to us by the directors of the company and/or from review of the company records, accounts and files. We may also consult publically available records in relation to you or the company over which we are appointed.
Why do we process your personal data?
We process your personal data in order to conduct the receivership in relation to the underlying asset(s). This involves securing and insuring the asset(s), realising the value of the asset(s) and remitting the funds generated by the realisation of assets to the charge holder and the relevant creditors.
Our processing of your personal data in these circumstances is on the basis that it is necessary for the purposes of pursuing our legitimate interests and the legitimate interests of the charge holder. The legitimate interests that we pursue are our interests in performing our appointment and operating our business. The legitimate interest of the charge holder is in the recovery of monies owed to it by way of exercising its security rights over the assets. We may also be required to process your personal data in order to comply with our legal obligations.
To whom might we disclose your personal data?
- Estate agent / auctioneer – We will engage the services of an estate agent or auctioneer or similar service provider such as assessors, surveyors and valuers, to value the property, where necessary manage the property and to assist in its sale. We will disclose to these service providers that we have been appointed as a receiver over the property, which may include disclosing your contact details to the service provider so that they can complete the service for which they have been engaged
- Financial institutions – we may be required to engage with financial institutions to assist with the company and in preparing the proposal. We would then need to provide them with information about directors, shareholders and employees
- Architects / Engineers / Tradesmen – we may need to engage an architect / engineer or similar service provider concerning maintenance and upkeep of the property and if we do, we may be required to disclose your contact details due to your occupation of the property
- Security company – Where necessary we will engage the services of a security company to enter into and secure the property, and in certain circumstances to ensure the on-going security of the property. When we engage a security company, we disclose to them that the property is subject to the receivership process, which may involve disclosing your contact details in the event that you remain in occupation of parts of the property
- Utility companies – Where necessary we engage with utility companies in order to arrange for the payment of outstanding bills and to ensure on-going payment of bills. When we contact utility companies, we disclose that the property is subject to the receivership process, which involves disclosing your name as an occupant of the property
- Legal advisors – We may disclose details of our appointment to our legal advisors in order to confirm the validity of our appointment and to address legal queries or issues that may arise during the course of the receivership
- Third Party Software Providers – Vision Blue (Insolvency management software), iManage (document management software)
- Insurance Broker – Where necessary we may engage brokers to place appropriate insurance for the receivership properties.
We may be required in certain circumstances, by law or by regulations or by Professional Bodies, located both within the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA), to make reports to regulatory and law enforcement authorities or to such bodies, or to disclose documents or information or take other action, as a result of information received by us or matters which come to our attention during the course of our engagement. We may also be required to provide Regulatory Bodies, Grant Thornton International Limited or Professional Bodies with access to our work papers in order to facilitate monitoring inspections.
Transfers abroad
We are an all-Ireland firm and therefore data is processed in all offices (ROI/NI) for the legitimate interest to ensure efficient running of the business.
Whilst we store personal data on servers both in Dublin and the UK, in line with the above, we may need to transfer personal data outside the UK. This includes to countries that are not recognised by the Government of the UK as providing an equivalent level of protection for personal data as in the UK (also known as having adequacy). Where we do so, we ensure that appropriate measures are in place to comply with our obligations under data protection legislation. This can include entering into an agreement governing the transfer containing the ‘standard contractual clauses’ (also known as ‘model clauses’) approved for this purpose by the Government of the UK.
Our retention of your personal data
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Your rights
You have the right, subject to certain exemptions:
- to obtain a copy of any personal data we hold about you,
- to request rectification or erasure of such data,
- to request restriction of processing or to object to processing,
- and data portability.
If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us using the details below.
Our contact details
If you would like to contact us, please write to us or email us using the contact details below:
Registered office address: Grant Thornton (NI) LLP, 12-15 Donegall Square West, Belfast BT1 6JH, Northern Ireland.
Email address: dataprivacy@ie.gt.com
Complaints
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office, or another supervisory authority.