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...Grant Thornton declined to comment....
...After a fractious call with Grant Thornton’s management last week, retirees said the sum they were offered was unfairly low, in some cases coming up short by $1mn or more....
...Grant Thornton and Citrin Cooperman will continue to operate independently of each other, according to people familiar with the plans....
...enterprise value of more than $2bn and capital to fund what its chief executive Jeff Ferro called an “extremely aggressive” acquisition strategy, signalling the firm’s ambition to challenge RSM, Grant Thornton...
...The US arm of accounting firm Grant Thornton has agreed to sell a majority stake to the investment group New Mountain Capital, in the largest of a wave of private equity deals that are reshaping the sector...
...PwC, KPMG and Grant Thornton are among the large accounting firms to have sold parts of their advisory businesses to private equity....
...BDO, Grant Thornton and Marcum are among the midsized firms to have explored deals in the US in recent months....
...BDO had the largest deficiency rate among the six “global network firms”, which also include the Big Four and Grant Thornton, with almost two-thirds of the audits inspected failing to meet US standards....
...He set up his own firm after short stints at Grant Thornton and a regional accounting firm based in Colorado, initially focusing on tax work before shifting into public company audits....
...It is not the first time that a Supreme Court justice has faced calls to step down: most recently, progressive groups publicly urged Stephen Breyer to retire so Biden could fill his seat....
...The Late Show host Stephen Colbert will moderate a conversation with the trio of leaders, and the event will feature appearances by Queen Latifah and Lizzo....
...A month later, Grant Thornton US agreed to sell a 60 per cent stake to New Mountain Capital....
...And there are everyday efficiencies to be gained from automating back-office tasks — such as IT support, as the accounting firm Grant Thornton has done with a chatbot named after its founder, Alexander Grant...
...Stephen Scherr has stepped down as chief executive of car rental chain Hertz....
...Oversight Board said that its inspectors found deficiencies in 30 per cent of audits carried out by the US businesses of the global network firms — the Big Four of Deloitte, PwC, KPMG and EY, plus Grant Thornton...
...Grant Thornton has been subletting two floors at 110 Bishopsgate, which it said had “proven to be surplus to our requirements since the pandemic”....
...Additional reporting by Daniel Thomas, Stephen Gandel and Stephen Foley...
...Lucy FisherAnd Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy. [MUSIC PLAYING] Lucy FisherFirst off the marks, then. What’s been on your mind this week, Robert?...
...“I didn’t have, like, a Grant Thornton or somebody audit my personal books,” he said....
...A Grant Thornton spokesman declined to comment. This year is shaping up to be the busiest in memory for M&A activity among mid-market US accounting firms....
...The atmosphere has shifted greatly from past years, when one-time Wall Street bosses such as John Thornton, the former Goldman Sachs banker, Blackstone chief Stephen Schwarzman and former Treasury secretary...
...They also went further, saying that the Roe vs Wade ruling of 1973 was incorrectly decided. The court’s three liberal justices — Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer — dissented....
...Dissenting opinion by Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan The impassioned dissent by the court’s three-member liberal wing begins by pointing to the “half a century” during which Roe vs Wade...
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
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