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Sector Focus
We specialise in the investment management industry offering audit, assurance, tax and corporate recovery and liquidation services.
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Personal Tax Services
There are many tax rules that can affect you personally and therefore which will have an impact on your personal wealth.
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QI Compliance
Qualified Intermediaries (QI) have to take action now to perform a Certification to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Download our tax brochures
The tax teams at Grant Thornton aim to provide the Channel Islands with a premier tax advisory service both to private clients and the business community including the investment management industry.
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Jersey Tax Return
A secure sign in page to file Jersey Tax Returns through the Grant Thornton tax portal.
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ESG
ESG can either be seen as a risk management tool or an opportunity, either way it is imperative to your business, whatever your size and whether you are listed or not.
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Professional Services
Business and accounting support for professional services
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Finance Industry
We work with a broad range of clients and their financial stakeholders, from entrepreneurs in the early days to fast growing and established businesses to public companies competing in global markets.
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Local Businesses
Businesses come in many shapes and sizes – from innovative start-ups to long-established local businesses. But however large or small your business, the chances are you face similar challenges.
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Corporate Insolvency
Our corporate investigation, Guernsey liquidation and recovery teams focus on identifying and resolving issues affecting profitability, protecting enterprise value and facilitating a full recovery where possible.
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Corporate Simplification
Redundant corporate entities can over complicate group structures and waste thousands of pounds in unnecessary costs each year. 46% of the c.15,500 companies controlled by the FTSE100 are dormant and it is estimated that the average cost of administering dormant companies is between £3,500 and £5,000 per company, per year.
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Debt Advisory
Our Debt Advisory team provides commercial and financial debt advice to corporate entities and public sector bodies in a range of sectors. Our engagements include advice on stand-alone transactions and solutions or as part of an integrated business plan, in both the project and corporate arenas.
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Exit Strategy Services
We offer a tailored methodology designed to enable a company to be reviewed in a group context to assess ways to maximise its value.
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Financial Restructuring
For companies challenged by under-performance we work with management teams, shareholders, lenders and other stakeholders to implement financial restructuring solutions creating a stable platform for business turnaround.
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Strategic performance reviews
Strategic performance reviews analyse the key drivers of performance improvement. Our specialists utilise a framework to evaluate financial and operational options and to identify solutions for businesses and their stakeholders.
We specialise in the investment management industry offering audit, assurance, tax and corporate recovery and liquidation services.
How we work with you
We work closely with our clients to understand the specific issues that they face, as is evident in the many long standing client relationships that we have developed.
Our approach to audit is to provide the most rigorous standards of professional independence and objectivity and our entire approach is designed to make a constructive contribution to the clients business.
An impressive local firm but with strong international links
Why you should work with us
We treat each client individually and provide a service that is tailored to their specific needs.
Our investment in IT communications and people development is impressive and coupled with our focus on technical excellence, forms part of our drive to provide you with the highest level of client service that is competitively priced and managed by a director with whom you can develop a long lasting business relationship.
In short, we listen, we respond, we have the experience and we are enthusiastic about working with you.
Who we work for
Types of funds
- Hedge funds
- Investment Trusts
- Private equity/Venture Capital Funds
- Film Funds
- Property Funds
Asset classes
- Quoted equity investments
- Unquoted equity investments
- Quoted debt securities
- Unquoted debt securities
- Derivative financial instruments
- Real Estate
- Commercial and residential development
- Commercial and residential ownership
- Leisure assets
- Clean energy assets
Accounting standards
- UK GAAP
- IFRS
- US GAAP
Types of open-and closed-ended structures
- Limited Company
- Protected Cell Companies
- Incorporated Cell Companies
- Master/feeder structures
- Multiple share class
- Limited Partnerships
Jurisdictions/regulatory environment
- Jersey
- Guernsey
- Cayman Islands
- BVI
Listings
- London Stock Exchange
- Irish Stock Exchange
- Channel Islands Stock Exchange
We blend our leading technical competences with knowledge of your markets and your business and deliver the service process by:
- A well trained and qualified team that has experience in your field
- An audit approach that is tailored to critical risk areas
- Reporting on time
- Rapidly responding to issues as and when they arise
- Proactively bringing ideas to you