Private Equity
The Private Equity team at Grant Thornton provides a full range
of private equity related services and delivers advice that meets
your needs and objectives.
Our integrated approach brings together a team of professionals
from corporate finance, restructuring and turnaround, taxation and
assurance services who provide bespoke solutions from investment
through the growth phase to exit. As well as acting for
private equity houses, we advise many private equity-backed
companies, and management teams seeking private equity
investment.
We provide advice and implementation support on; lead advisory,
management buy-outs and buy-ins; transaction services, providing
financial and commercial due diligence; operations and post deal
services, operations due diligence, synergy planning, M&A
integration and carve-out; restructuring and turnaround including
portfolio solutions, restructuring and turnaround of
underperforming portfolio companies and legacy investments;
distressed investing, and fund structuring including, advice on
personal and corporate tax issues.
We have a specialist Private Equity tax group lead by Paul Cooper which provides a full range of tax
services to our Private Equity clients including fund and carry
structuring, tax advice on deals and tax compliance for Private
Equity funds, their portfolio investments and the individual deal
executives.
To find out more about what Grant Thornton can offer you,
contact Mo Merali, Head of Private Equity on +44 (0)207 728 2501 or
e-mail to mo.merali@gtuk.com.
UK firms specialised in Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) continue to attract private equity investors,
according to our recent
‘Where is the Smart Money Going in ICT?’ report. The survey of
the 40 leading private equity investors backing UK ICT firms
recorded 84% as saying that their firm planned to undertake an
acquisition in the UK ICT sector over the next 12 months.
Watch footage of our panellists share their views on the
findings of the report and the state of the market by Himanshu Raja
(CFO BT Design), Ash Hussain (Axial Systems), Martin Rowland (LDC)
and Simon Davies (Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Advisory).