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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.
Technology - time for lawyers to get on the bus?
04 Dec 2018It is now widely accepted, and rightly so, that Northern Ireland is establishing itself as a Centre of Excellence for technological innovation. Examples of this are reported on an almost daily basis in Northern Ireland. Why then has the legal system not taken advantage of this technological revolution? A popular misconception is that lawyers are against modernisation. This is not the case - but is there a lack of understanding of what’s out there? A number of common myths amongst lawyers around the availability and use of legal technology may be part of the problem.
Legal Technology is too expensive and complicated. Wrong! As with most technologies today, major advances have been made in recent years making world-leading technologies more accessible and user friendly than ever before. Any lawyer that can draft and send an email can, with a minimum of training, use eDiscovery technology to assist them. Legal Technology can only be used in cases of enormous value involving millions of documents. Wrong! It may be correct to say that most matters that make the news or legal press involving the use of technology are high value and high profile. That does not mean that these are the only matters in which it is utilised. Indeed most lawyers would be surprised at the size of the average technology-assisted case – most of which would fit squarely into the value bracket dealt with by the Commercial Courts in Northern Ireland. Legal Technology is taking the jobs of lawyers. Wrong! Even the most sophisticated legal technology currently available worldwide (all of which is accessible by the Northern Ireland legal market) is designed to assist lawyers – not to replace them. Every lawyer has experienced the misery of wading through hundreds or even thousands of documents for a case, often late at night or at the weekend. Making this process easier, faster and more defensible - benefitting both the lawyer and the client, is the central focus of the legal tech market. Automation can’t be trusted and has no place in the law. Wrong! There is no doubt that the practice of Law is closer to art than science – especially when practiced by the very best - but as with many aspects of the modern world, automation and science can help the lawyer deliver their art better than they ever have before. Providing the best possible client service requires sophisticated thinking and sound human judgement. Why not then let technology carry some of the heavy burden of wading through information – freeing the lawyer’s brain to do what it does best – interpret and apply the facts at hand to ensure the best possible outcome for the client?
Is it time that lawyers got on the bus – or will it leave without them?