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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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Digital Risk
Grant Thornton offers solutions to the digital risk issues you are sure to face. Our skilled and experienced security team can helping by advising and consulting, giving you peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to attacks.
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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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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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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.
Having come through arguably some of the most challenging banking times in recent years, with reduced levels of credit available, many businesses have seen growth plans either curtailed, or funded by alternative sources of finance. Such alternative sources include equity and mezzanine finance often taken at different times and at different rates as the various business needs arose. The funding taken out will no doubt have assisted the businesses with their cash flow, working capital or growth plans; however, it may also be expensive and unwieldy, with the business having to make different repayments at various dates in the month.
In 2016 the constraints on credit eased and this looks set to continue throughout 2017, with the majority of mainstream banks in Northern Ireland appearing to have an appetite to lend to SMEs and mid-corporate businesses. As a result, businesses should now have the ability to review and potentially restructure their debt to ensure they are obtaining the most suitable funding package to meet their requirements.
Debt restructuring and refinancing can be a daunting prospect for many SMEs and mid-corporate businesses, but it does not have to be. As a starting point, it’s pertinent to consider the business’s current requirements and future plans.
In particular it is important to understand the requirements of the business both from a working capital and capital expenditure viewpoint. Careful consideration of both the historic and future cash flows will be required to identify both the peak funding requirement and its timing.
Equally it is essential to understand how the business uses the current banking facilities at their disposal from a day to day operational perspective. For example, the business should review the type and frequency of payments they make, the type of products they use or require and the type of platforms they use (online, branches etc).
Finally the business should consider the cost of their existing banking arrangements. The key input to the overall funding cost is the margin at which funds have been borrowed by the business.
For many businesses the cost is often the deciding factor. However, no business should review its facilities without considering all the factors at play.