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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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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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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
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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.
The tech revolution in the NI legal sector
27 Oct 2020It is clear that the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic has caused a seismic shift in how companies of all kinds conduct their day-to-day business. Unfortunately, some of those shifts have been of a negative nature, with many firms suffering unprecedented hardship and struggling to stay afloat.
The use of technology to solve some of the unique problems currently facing businesses is one of a small number of positives that can be taken from the present situation. Almost all businesses will now be much more familiar with technology products which facilitate remote working than they were previously. Software such as Zoom, MS Teams, Skype and many others have become pervasive in our working vocabulary – a first for many NI businesses.
The legal sector is no different, and perhaps a silver-lining can be gleaned from the difficulties experienced in the sector over recent months. There has long been a need for the NI legal sector to embrace available technology in order to drive efficiencies, and in particular the Courts have indicated their intention to move to a more efficient, more technology-enabled model, in order to deliver justice in Northern Ireland Courts. In recent weeks and months, Courts at various levels in Northern Ireland have begun embracing remote solutions to re-start their work, even in circumstances where further local restrictions have been in place. We have seen remote proceedings in some County Court litigation matters, some criminal matters, and in other areas of NI court practice. The same can be said for the Courts of England & Wales and the Republic of Ireland, who have also recently been conducting some proceedings remotely.
Remote meeting software is not the only available solution here. There are a number of specialist legal technology products which can provide invaluable assistance to lawyers in the conduct of their day-to-day activities. Solutions that assist with the efficient and swift review of legal documents for discovery purposes, or the analysis of contracts, leases and other legal documents in non-contentious circumstances, are readily available in Northern Ireland. These solutions lend themselves perfectly to a situation such as this, where remote or off-site working has been forced upon lawyers.
There are also available solutions for the digital presentation of evidence in Courts, and even to facilitate the electronic briefing of Barristers. When used in conjunction with virtual meeting solutions, these can be invaluable in helping lawyers at all levels in NI to continue to deliver not only client services but also access justice in a seamless manner, even in a remote environment.
There is an opportunity for the legal sector here to emerge from the pandemic, whenever that may be, with a new way of working. The use of technology should now not be considered necessary simply in the current situation, but should remain pervasive even when today’s restrictions no longer apply.
