{"id":1000897715,"date":"2024-11-20T15:14:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/?p=1000897715"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:14:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:14:54","slug":"grant-thornton-uk-picks-private-equity-over-merging-with-its-us-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/grant-thornton-uk-picks-private-equity-over-merging-with-its-us-cousins\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Thornton UK Picks Private Equity Over Merging With Its US Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finally, Grant Thornton UK has picked a private equity firm to whore itself out to. We can only hope this means that the UK media &#8212; looking at you, <em>The Times<\/em> &#8212; will stop cranking out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/sht-or-get-off-the-private-equity-pot-grant-thornton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hype pieces about how private equity firms are battling it out to win GT&#8217;s PE deal<\/a>. It seems all that hype worked out for GT given that bidding exceeded the firm&#8217;s revenue by \u00a3646 million, a nearly 2x multiplier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c54864e1-ea6c-49b5-90e0-2e1530f576da\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wrote FT of GT UK&#8217;s deal<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Grant Thornton UK, the country\u2019s sixth largest accounting firm by revenue, has agreed to sell a stake to the buyout group Cinven, marking the most significant private equity investment to date in the UK accounting sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cinven beat rival offers from other private equity groups including Sweden\u2019s EQT, and from Grant Thornton\u2019s sister firm in the US, which had proposed a transatlantic merger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifics of the deal are not known at this time and the firm told FT in a statement that the terms &#8220;remain confidential.&#8221; FT said a source told them bidding for the firm in an auction organized by Rothschild had reached approximately \u00a31.3 billion ($1.6 billion USD), a little short of the \u00a31.5 billion partners were hoping for. For fiscal 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantthornton.com\/insights\/press-releases\/2024\/october\/grant-thornton-advisors-llc-in-the-us-and-grant-thornton-ireland-to-combine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GT reported revenue of \u00a3654 million<\/a> (growth of +7%) and operating profit of \u00a3146 million. Wait, is that right? And they were able to get private equity to bid up to \u00a31.3 billion? Send those <em>Times<\/em> shills a nice Edible Arrangements bouquet for their hard work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving evaluated the external landscape, we have agreed initial terms with an investor, who we feel is best placed to support our accelerated growth in the medium term,&#8221; said GT to FT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal isn&#8217;t official quite yet, Grant Thornton&#8217;s 200-some partners still have to ratify it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seemed pretty clear when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/grant-thornton-merges-with-grant-thornton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grant Thorntons US and Ireland announced a merger<\/a> a few weeks ago that the UK business was not joining them in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/grant-thornton-wants-to-have-a-threesome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the mid-tier threesome floated as a possibility back in July<\/a>. The GT US\/Ireland deal was assisted by New Mountain Capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/private-equity-is-taking-a-majority-stake-in-grant-thornton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the private equity firm that bought a majority stake in GT US in March<\/a>. Apparently GT Ireland&#8217;s 45 equity partners were looking at payouts around \u20ac6.5 million ($6.9 million USD) in cash <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/world\/ireland-world\/article\/grant-thornton-irelands-480m-buyout-sets-up-partner-bonanza-qdhwcqzsb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for the GT US deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is really starting to feel like 1999 except instead of Pets.com and dudes on motorcycles who can deliver condoms and DVDs within an hour it&#8217;s professional services firms. What could go wrong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Grant Thornton UK has picked a private equity firm to whore itself out to. 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