Private equity consulting | Grant Thornton

Driving value across the investment lifecycle

We collaborate with private equity firms and their portfolio companies to accelerate growth, sharpen performance, and create lasting value. With deep industry expertise, our global platform delivers audit, tax, and advisory services with precision. Every solution is built to mitigate risk, drive measurable results, and position your portfolio for what’s next.

We stand apart with an enterprise view of private equity service. By treating the fund and its portfolio as one integrated client, we deliver high quality service, accelerate onboarding, and provide pragmatic advice that drives value—across deal sourcing, due diligence, business transformation, positioning investments for optimized multiples at the appropriate event horizon.

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How we can help you

Our dedicated, industry-focused audit, tax and advisory teams are ready to help, with the scale, skill and service you'll only find here

Audit & Assurance

Our talented people, cutting-edge technology and deep industry-specific knowledge and experience give us all the necessary ingredients to... Show more provide audit and assurance services that provide the highest quality to our clients, audit report users and the community. We ask the right questions and work together with our clients to provide the best solutions, using the latest technology to deliver efficient services and useful, data-driven insights. And we have a strong commitment to serving our clients and the public with integrity and transparency. Learn more -->

CFO Advisory

The responsibilities of CFOs have grown tremendously expanded in recent years, as the depth of their strategic acumen has become fully... Show more appreciated by their organizations. These expanded duties create a need for insights that you can depend on, tailored to your unique circumstances, such as managing your revenue cycle, billing system implementation and transforming financial operations. Our professionals help you drive your organization forward in an ever-changing environment. We help you in create value and accurate, efficient reporting with the help of powerful tools and analytical capabilities. Your organization is counting on you to create a path to success. You can count on us to help you deliver. Learn more -->

Business Consulting

Your business needs to drive its top-line growth and its bottom-line productivity. We can help you do that. Our Business Consulting team... Show more starts by listening and building trusted partnerships — we want to know how you work today, so that we can address your biggest challenges. We identify where streamlined efficiency and insight can transform finance and other business functions. We know how to empower your workforce with data-driven analysis and automation that truly drive strategic decisions and deliver on your goals. Learn more -->

Risk Advisory

We help our clients understand their business risks, and we assist in addressing risk in both proactive and responsive contexts. We deploy our diverse pool... Show more of controls professionals, compliance specialists, cybersecurity professionals, and risk consultants with industry depth to meet the complex requirements of our client programs. We work with our clients to provide the optimal team and resource structure to accelerate program execution. We start with the benefits-realization objective to drive the most effective and value-enhancing engagement model for our clients. Learn more -->

Tax Services

Executives must ensure their tax departments manage global risks, meet compliance requirements and achieve strategic and operational objectives,... Show more all in an unpredictable regulatory environment. We tackle challenges by listening and bringing together the right technology, people and resources to deliver tailored, streamlined and efficient tax solutions with a fresh perspective. Leveraging the latest tax automation analytics, data visualizations and personalized dashboards, our practical approach allows you to operate with more confidence to face the next tax challenge. Learn more -->

Technology Modernization

A strategic technology modernization effort can help decrease costs, increase value, drive efficiencies, boost performance and even improve engagement... Show more for employees and customers. The challenge is to achieve value-driven innovation amid the ongoing operational and competitive challenges that face every organization. Grant Thornton’s technology modernization team understands this challenge and applies deep technology, data, cloud and automation experience with fresh strategic thinking and proven partners to find the best path to your goals. Learn more -->

Transaction Advisory

Our holistic approach to transaction advisory services addresses the financial, operational, tax, IT commercial, strategic, human capital... Show more, and cultural issues that are part of a deal. With a shared purpose of optimizing transactional value, Grant Thornton’s M&A professionals work with you throughout the life cycle of the transaction to overcome challenges and successfully acquire and integrate new operations. Our integrated transaction plan provides the insights necessary to minimize risks, manage buy-side and sell-side due diligence, and enable you to focus on the future. Learn more -->

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Private Equity by the numbers

We serve PE at a scale — particularly in the middle market — that enables us to provide the best solutions for effective service throughout the PE lifecycle. These statistics attest to our experience and effectiveness.

69%

Portion of the U.S.-based PEI 300 that we serve

1,600+

Number of PE-backed portfolio company clients we serve

600+

Number of PE firm relationships we have

80%

Portion of our corporate clients that are privately held entities

92%

Portion of our PE clients who plan to engage us again.

Private Equity Audit Firm of the Year

Private Equity Wire's selection of Grant Thornton LLP as U.S. Audit Firm of the Year in 2024 provided independent recognition of our commitment to audit quality and meeting the changing needs of our PE clients and their portfolio companies.

See why we're No. 1 in PE audits