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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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Indirect Tax Advisory & Compliance
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.
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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.
Experience
Paul is a Partner and Head of the Forensic & Investigation Services unit in Grant Thornton Ireland. He has delivered and led numerous complex financial investigations as well as acting an expert witness in a broad range of high value commercial disputes.
He has over 25 years’ experience in forensic accounting, in a career spanning 30 years. Paul established Grant Thornton’s forensic, legal technology and cyber security units, having spent over a decade with a Big 4 firm in Dublin, London and New Zealand.
Paul has investigated monies misappropriated and dispersed internationally from Funds, in the context of assisting Grant Thornton Liquidators.
Paul has provides unique solutions by deeply integrating technology solutions in investigations utilising a highly experienced, multi-disciplinary team of professionals in forensic accounting, e-discovery, analytics, incident response, and cyber security.
Recent, investigation and accounting appointments include: the Olympic Council of Ireland (in relation to ticketing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro), the Football Association of Ireland, and being appointed Independent Financial Assessor in Labour Relations Commission industrial relations matters involving the electricity utility (ESB), Aer Lingus, and the Irish postal service, and unions.
He has given expert witness testimony in over 25 occasions including civil litigation in the High Courts of Ireland, England, the Netherlands and the Channel Islands, and arbitration proceedings (ICC). Testimonies include acting as expert for the Defendant in two cases where the claims exceeded €100m, asset tracing arising from construction of a resort in the Caribbean, quantum assessment from termination of contracts, and calculation of capital and interest owed.
Paul has had a number of appointments in the music/entertainment sector, including acting for W2 in a shareholder dispute involving Octagon Films, music artists, and a large concert promoter. Recently, he has been involved in assessing business interruption losses in the context of Covid-19. Paul has had a number of appointments in the music/entertainment sector, including acting for W2 in a shareholder dispute involving Octagon Films, music artists, and a large concert promoter. Recently, he has been involved in assessing business interruption losses in the context of Covid-19 and testified in Court (July 2021) in Ireland’s precedent setting cases.
Sector experience
Specialist areas include:
Expert witness on economic losses and dispute advisory services:
- Claims for loss of profits and consequential losses in complex commercial disputes
- Analysis of product and service costings
- Share valuations
- Completion accounts in corporate acquisitions and disposals
Fraud, money laundering and special purpose investigations:
- Asset tracing and analysis of transactions
- Analysis of accounting entries and proper books of account
- Compliance with requirements of Companies Acts, Regulations and other legislation
- Bachelor of Commerce, Canterbury University, New Zealand
- Bachelor of Laws, Canterbury University, New Zealand
- Admitted to High Court of New Zealand as Barrister and Solicitor
- Practicing Associate of the Academy of Experts
- Associate Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners