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Providing insights you need to build value

Our unique combination of scale and agility along with our industry-specific focus helps us provide timely due diligence, transaction support and portfolio company value creation services.

We help our clients make the right decisions throughout the entire deal life cycle while providing insights on timely, pivotal issues such as valuation and cybersecurity. Our wealth of experience in private equity also helps us perform unparalleled tax and audit services for our PE firm clients and their portfolio companies.

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M&A professionals: Prepare for a rise in deals

Eighty-one percent of M&A professionals expect deal volume to rise in the next six months, according to a new Grant Thornton survey.

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 -->

Growth Advisory

The purpose of growth isn’t just to get bigger. The real value is delivered when you grow and get better. Our people are skilled at helping you create effective... Show more strategies, optimize your operations, and clinical staffing, and elevate the performance of your people so that you can grow revenue, margin, market share and employee engagement simultaneously. We take the time to get to know your organization’s culture, capabilities, strategic imperatives, and full potential within the broader business ecosystem to design and deliver tactics to support achievement of long-term profitable growth. 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.

Grant Thornton

Lisa Walkush

National Managing Principal, Industry

5 predictions for private equity in healthcare

Grant Thornton’s Lisa Walkush authored this HealthCare Dive piece that explains why healthcare organizations are extremely attractive to PE firms.

Michael Patanella

National Managing Partner, Asset Management

Why PE firms are snatching up asset managers

In this PitchBook News piece, Grant Thornton National Managing Partner for Asset Management Michael Patanella discusses consolidation in PE.

2024 industry tax planning guides

GUIDE

Defense to offense: Asset management tax strategy

High interest rates and new limits on interest expense deductions require a proactive approach.

GUIDE

New taxes, new solutions for tech firms

Our fresh thinking

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Get ready to drive growth at firms and portcos

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Developing the right focus for growth

Paying attention to three critical areas — customer focus, intentionality and understanding context — will provide the impetus to spark and sustain growth.

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Organic growth: Putting customers first

Meeting customer needs is so important that you may need to do partner with competitors to do it.

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How to get ready for M&A

To get maximum value out of a transaction, buyers and sellers need to tighten up their operations and cost structures.

Connect with our Private Equity team

Gregory Westfall

National Managing Principal, Private Equity

+1 212 542 9822

Melanie K. Krygier

Partner, M&A Tax Services

+1 415 318 2202

Michael L. Notarangelo

Partner, Private Equity Audit Leader

Mike Notarangelo is an experienced partner with a proven track record serving our firm’s largest clients. He is currently an audit Partner based in the Northeast Region that extends from New York to Boston and is Grant Thornton’s National Private Equity Audit Leader.

New York, NY

+1 860 781 6734

Industries

Insurance
Manufacturing, Transportation & Distribution
Retail & consumer brands
Technology, media & telecommunications

Service Experience

Audit & Assurance

Colin Singleton

Partner, Transaction Advisory Services

+1 703 562 5911

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Private Equity

Making the path to growth easier