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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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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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Consulting
Our Consulting team guarantees quick turnarounds and superior results delivered on a range of services.
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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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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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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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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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Corporate Accounting and Outsourcing
At Grant Thornton we have extensive knowledge and experience in providing tailored solutions to our clients, whether on a short-term or long-term basis.
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Financial Services Audit
Our Financial Services Audit team offers expertise and knowledge along with a horizontal approach to solving clients’ problems and queries.
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Global Statutory Audit
Our Global Statutory Audit team ensures your statutory audit process follows a well-defined project plan, with no surprises, to maintain compliance across multiple jurisdictions. We invest time to understand your finance function and develop bespoke solutions built on the premise of central effort to remove duplication.
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Pension Audit
The Grant Thornton Pension Audit team has vast experience in managing schemes and preparing annual reports on them for clients.
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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
Brian joined Grant Thornton in 2019 and leads the firms Financial Service Tax Practice.
Brian specialises in the provision of tax advisory and compliance services to a diverse range of financial services clients across the asset management, banking, insurance, securitisation, leasing and regulated Fintech sectors.
Sector Experience
Brian has extensive experience in advising clients with regard to the establishment of regulated investment funds and fund managers in Ireland. He also advised on capital market transactions, cross border structured finance transactions, securitisation (including aviation) deals, structuring acquisitions, disposal of business assets, restructuring of group operations, cross border lending/financing, determining appropriate fund structure and domicile from a regulatory and tax perspective, International tax planning and the impact of OECD, EU and other international developments.
Brian’s significant and varied domestic and international expertise across the financial services sector complement the existing tax teams offering and he is collaborating closely with both the Financial Services Audit and the Financial Service Advisory practices which have experienced significant growth in the areas of audit, regulatory reporting, business risk services and financial consulting business lines.
Brian is also working closely with colleagues in the wider Grant Thornton international network to assist groups and managers across the financial services sector in the establishment of Irish operations, platforms and investment products and to manage their global tax and regulatory requirements in an efficient manner.
Prior to joining Grant Thornton Brian spent over 15 years with a Big 4 firm where he worked within both the financial services tax and audit practices. Brian also completed a tour in the US where he represented the Irish firm as Irish tax desk leader for 2.5 years.
- Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in Ireland
- An associate of the Irish Tax Institute