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Audit of stand-alone annual accounts
At Grant Thornton Luxembourg, our team of experts is specialised in audits of stand-alone annual accounts.
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Audit of consolidated annual accounts
Grant Thornton Luxembourg team of experts is specialised in providing audit services to a lot of multinational which have their administrative center located in Luxembourg for whom the consolidated annual accounts have to be audited.
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Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements
In the case of agreed-upon procedures engagement, Grant Thornton Luxembourg performs procedures particularly requested by the client/bank and reports on the findings.
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GDPR-CARPA Certification
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Forensic Audit
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Supervisory Auditor (Commissaire)
Grant Thornton Luxembourg has a dedicated team of experts committed to deliver services to reserved to Supervisory Auditor or "Commissaire aux Comptes".
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Liquidation Audit
Grant Thornton Luxembourg has a dedicated team of experts committed to deliver services to reserved to liquidation audit "Commissariat à la liquidation".
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Assurance Engagements
Grant Thornton Luxembourg have a dedicated team of experts committed to work on audit and assurance special engagements.
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IFRS Services
At Grant Thornton Luxembourg, our experts can help you navigate the complexity of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
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Valuation
Grant Thornton Luxembourg helps clients evaluate and implement various strategic alternatives through our comprehensive suite of corporate value consulting services. From opinions, board solutions and services, to valuation and modeling, we can assist you with value added services throughout the transaction lifecycle.
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Governance, Risk & Compliance
Grant Thornton Luxembourg offers comprehensive services in Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) tailored to meet the evolving needs of businesses in today's dynamic regulatory environment. Our commitment is to provide personalised guidance and global expertise, ensuring that your company establish robust internal controls and navigates governance challenges effectively.
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Structuring & Modeling
Grant Thornton Luxembourg offers workable solutions to maximise your value and deliver sustainable growth. Transactions or reorganisations are significant events in the life of a business, so the stakes are high for both buyers and sellers.
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Data Protection and Privacy
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - The real challenge consists of remaining compliant with GDPR and in being able to prove this compliance (accountability principle). Grant Thornton Luxembourg can help you with a tailored phase approach.
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Sustainability services and impact reporting
At Grant Thornton, we recognise the need of our clients to operate responsibly and to meet the high standards posed by the sector they operate. We offer pragmatic, tailor-made solutions to our clients and we assist them to make the required transitions towards the implementation of sustainable business practices.
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Whistleblowing services
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Alternative Investment Services
Grant Thornton Luxembourg is a bespoke business partner to established Alternative Investment Fund (“AIF”) Managers (“AIFM”) as well as independent Managers launching start-up Funds and seeking for a single entry point in Luxembourg in order to set-up and manage their Luxembourg domiciled Funds.
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Fund Administration
Fund Administration - Grant Thornton Luxembourg offers a full range of tailored solutions to our clients.
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Registrar & Transfer Agency Services, Client Reporting
Grant Thornton Luxembourg provides investors with confirmations, final Contract Notes and regular statements upon finalisation of the Fund’s Net Asset Value, We handle all wire payments and transfers, including the processing of distribution dividend payments, and perform in-depth Anti-Money Laundering Counter Terrorism Financing and Know-Your Client due diligence checks on investors.
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Fund set-up, Launch & Corporate life
High-quality product structuring and legal services have become a crucial tool enabling industry players to get through the major changes impacting their business development, strategy and organisation as a whole. Our Investment Management practice at Grant Thornton Luxembourg is your one-stop place for expert advice combining pragmatism and a unique in-depth knowledge of the Luxembourg market.
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AML Compliance Services
Grant Thornton Luxembourg helps its Clients to keep compliant with AML-CTF laws and regulations and provide an expert skilled team.
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Regulatory Reporting Delivery
Grant Thornton Luxembourg has set up a Business Process Outsourcing Solution that manages and mutualises regulatory expertise, reporting solutions and skilled human resources
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Legal Support & Corporate Services
Grant Thornton Luxembourg delivers Legal Support & Corporate services.
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Accounting & Reporting Services
Grant Thornton Luxembourg may explore the specific characteristics of your company in order to provide a personalised assistance in the fields of Accounting & Reporting services.
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Corporate Tax Compliance
Grant Thornton Luxembourg may explore the specific characteristics of your company in order to provide a personalised assistance in the fields of corporate tax compliance.
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Direct Corporate Tax Advice
Grant Thornton Luxembourg understand the complexity of national and international tax laws. We can unlock your potential for local and international growth.
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VAT and Other Indirect Tax Compliance
Handling the day-to-day VAT compliance obligations requires being close to your business. Our VAT compliance business line assists you to ensure that long term reporting processes are implemented and respected with the aim of safeguarding a proper and timely VAT filing. This is important for achieving a VAT compliant environment and mitigating local VAT risks.
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VAT and Other Indirect Tax Advice
Our VAT advisory business line is dedicated to keeping you up to date with amended VAT legislation and changes in the administrative practice in Luxembourg and worldwide with our Grant Thornton global VAT network. Specialists review and comment on new EU directives and the latest case law by the Court of Justice of the European Union in order to provide you with advice tailored to your specific needs.
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Transaction & Reorganisation
Reorganisations - Transaction Planning - Tax Structuring - M&A. Companies strive to improve their market position with take-overs, mergers and demergers. Strategy and financial tactics are important elements in this respect. Grant Thornton tax specialists may intervene in all stages of the transaction.
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Transfer Pricing
The laws surrounding transfer pricing are becoming ever more complex, as tax affairs of multinational companies are facing scrutiny from media, regulators and the public. Grant Thornton Luxembourg can help you manage your transfer pricing risks and find opportunities.
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Tax - Financial Services & Operational Tax
Our Tax - Financial Services team provides tax advisory services relevant for the Financial Services Industries and Operational Tax assistance. This includes tax advice, automatic exchange of information (FATCA, CRS, DAC 6, DAC 7 and DAC 8), advisory and compliance assistance regarding the US Qualified Intermediary (QI) regime, assistance regarding withholding tax reclaims, investor tax reporting and tax structuring in the context of Islamic finance.
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Personal Tax
Our experienced multilingual Personal Tax Team is keen to give you tailored solutions, optimise your situation and help you make decisions. We could assist you with: income tax returns, vat returns, tax assessments, contacts with the tax authorities and assistance by tax audit or tax litigation, tax matters advices, inheritance tax matters, international assignments and trainings.
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Cross-Border Tax
Tax policies are constantly evolving and there are a number of complex changes on the horizon that could significantly affect your business. We can help you with practical advice such as VAT and direct tax.
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Corporate Finance
Exploring the strategic options available to you as a business or shareholder, advising and project managing the chosen solution, Grant Thornton Luxembourg provide a truly integrated corporate finance offering. Merger & acquisition, buying a business, selling a business, transaction piloting,raising finance to support your business plans.Vendor due diligence, acquisition due diligence, reporting accountant work,operational due diligence, management assessment.
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Expatriate Tax
Although international employment has become a standard practice in business life, employers and their assignees are still faced with numerous questions in this area. Grant Thornton Luxembourg can help you to be one step ahead.
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Set-up, Restructuring & Business Planning
Grant Thornton Luxembourg is delighted to add value during the implementation of your businesses and to be given the opportunity to grow together with you. Relying on our professionals’ financial expertise will allow you to take dynamic but sustainable decisions.
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Corporate Secretarial Services
Grant Thornton Luxembourg provides corporate secretarial services to enable our clients to comply with their legal and administrative obligations in Luxembourg.
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Liquidation & Insolvency
Grant Thornton Luxembourg can draw on years of experience in the areas of liquidation and insolvency and then make sensible recommendations on how best to deal with your financial crisis.
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Human Resources Management & Payroll
Grant Thornton Luxembourg has been delivering since 1987 Payroll and Human Resources services to private and institutional clients. A team of highly qualified collaborators manages around 7 000 payslips per month and offers related consulting services.
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Information Security
Grant Thornton Luxembourg offers Information Security services with a strong security expertise to avoid data breaches. We also have dedicated resources for all your cybersecurity challenges.
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MySmartOffice
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Privacy notice
This Privacy Notice explains how Grant Thornton International and Grant Thornton Luxembourg (“Grant Thornton Luxembourg”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and otherwise processes your personal data when you browse our website in accordance with applicable data privacy laws and regulations, which include the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”).
We control the ways your personal data are collected via the Grant Thornton Luxembourg website and the purposes for which we use your personal data acting as “data controller” in the context of the GDPR.
Grant Thornton Luxembourg includes the following companies: Grant Thornton Tax & Accounting S.A.; Grant Thornton Audit & Assurance S.A.; Grant Thornton Financial Services S.A.; Grant Thornton Recovery & Reorganisation S.A.; Grant Thornton Advisory S.A.; Grant Thornton Vectis S.A; Tax Consult S.A.; Abax Trust SàRL ; Grant Thornton Technology S.A., Immobilière Bitbourg.
1. Personal data we collect about you
When using the term “personal data” in our Privacy Notice, we mean information that relates to you and allows us to identify you, either directly or in combination with other information that we may hold.
Personal data that we collect automatically
Some of your information is collected automatically. Thus, when you access our website, we may automatically collect, through log files and technically necessary cookies, certain information from your device, such as the IP address, the operating system of your device, the pages visited, and the requests made and the day and time of connection. The use of such files allows us to offer you a more consistent experience on the website.
Cookies
During your visit, a banner appears at the bottom of the screen informing you of the use of cookies when browsing the website. A cookie is a small piece of data or message that is sent from an organisation's web server to your web browser and is then stored on the hard drive of your device (computer, tablet, mobile, etc.). Some cookies do not collect any personal data but simply ensure smooth and optimal navigation on our website.
The cookie banner provide you with information about the types of cookies and similar technologies we use and how you can control these technologies. It is up to you to make a choice between accepting or refusing the use of optional cookies depending on the services proposed.
You can manage your cookie consent preferences at any time by using the dedicated Cookie Consent tab on our website.
Personal data that you provide voluntarily
When you visit our website, make an enquiry, order publications, or request more information, you may be asked to provide some personal data such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and information in relation to materials and communication we send to you electronically.
By providing your information, you agree that your data will be processed by Grant Thornton Luxembourg for the purposes indicated in point 2 below. If there are other purposes than those indicated in point 2, they will be communicated at the end of each form.
In addition, we collect your data when you contact us directly through any communication channel (e.g., when you send us an e-mail containing a comment or a feedback). We may use social platforms for our own purposes (such as recruitment). Where this is the case, we are the data controller for such activities. We nonetheless encourage you to stay informed of the potential consequences of your online activity by checking the privacy policy of such social platforms. Grant Thornton Luxembourg does not control how social networks use your data for their purposes. Therefore, Grant Thornton Luxembourg cannot be held liable for the privacy practices of such social networks when they process your data for their purposes.
2. How do we use your personal data
Grant Thornton International may process your personal data collected through the use of cookies, in order to ensure a smooth user experience across the Grant Thornton International's websites.
Grant Thornton Luxembourg processes your personal data for the following purposes:
- Providing you with the information or services you have requested (including sending a commercial offer or responding to a contact request);
- Contacting you about various events, including product updates and customer support, or sending you a newsletter, only if you consented to it;
- Collecting the information enabling us to improve/secure our website and services.
3. Legal basis for data processing
For the purposes explained under point 2.:
- Pre-contractual measures including sending a commercial offer or a response to a contact request;
- Consent: if you have requested us to send you information about our services or if you have subscribed for receiving our newsletter;
- Legitimate interest: to guarantee the correct functioning, security, and accessibility of our website.
4. To whom might we disclose your personal data?
To achieve the purposes listed in point 2, the data is transferred to the following recipients:
- Internal employees who require it for their roles (on a need-to-know-basis);
- Employees of other member firms of Grant Thornton;
- Other service providers acting as subcontractors and on instruction from Grant Thornton Luxembourg.
In the latter case, a contract is drawn up between Grant Thornton Luxembourg and the subcontractor in question and appropriate technical and organizational measures are put in place in accordance with Articles 28 and 32 of the GDPR.
When your personal data is transferred (including in the case of remote access) to a country outside the European Economic Area that is not subject to an adequacy decision, appropriate safeguards in accordance with Chapter V of the GDPR are put in place, such as standard contractual clauses adopted and approved by the European Commission.
5. Data retention period
Your personal data is stored by Grant Thornton Luxembourg only for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which we obtained them. The retention period will depend upon several factors, such as the duration of the contract concluded with you, or legal requirements imposed to Grant Thornton Luxembourg.
Whenever we process your personal data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by using the contact email address below or by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email communication we send you (e.g., Grant Thornton events, product updates, etc.). Please, note that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the personal data processing based on consent prior to its withdrawal.
6. Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk so that the processing complies with the GDPR.
These measures must provide for a level of security considered appropriate considering the technical standards and the type of personal data processed but also:
- The state of the art and implementation costs;
- The nature, scope, context, and purposes of processing; and
- The likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.
Grant Thornton Luxembourg is also ISO 27001 certified. This internationally recognized standard demonstrates our dedication to implementing and maintaining robust information security management systems. ISO 27001 sets forth rigorous criteria for identifying, assessing, and mitigating information security risks, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive data.
Security requirements are continually evolving, and effective security requires frequent assessment and regular improvement of outdated security measures. We are committed to continuously evaluate, strengthen, and improve the measures we implement.
7. What are your rights regarding your data?
As a natural person, you have several rights regarding your personal data including:
- The right of access: You can request access to the data concerning you at any time as well as a copy of the data;
- The right to rectification: You can request at any time that inaccurate or incomplete data be rectified;
- The right to request the erasure of data: You can request that your data be deleted when, for example, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed;
- The right to restriction of processing: You can request that Grant Thornton Luxembourg restrict the processing of data if, for example, you question the accuracy of the data concerning you or if you object to the processing of data concerning you;
- The right to data portability: You have the right to have your data transferred to another data controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, if the processing is carried out by automated means or if it is based on prior consent;
- The right to object to processing: You can object to the processing of your data and can withdraw your consent if the processing is based on consent, for example if the data is used for commercial prospecting purposes.
You can exercise your rights by contacting the Data Protection Officer at the address shown below, or email dpo@lu.gt.com
Requests will be dealt with by the DPO and will be responded to within 1 month at the latest, starting from the moment of your identity confirmation. We may extend the time limit by a further 2 months if the request is complex or if we have received a high number of requests.
We may request additional information to help us confirm your identity, where deemed necessary, when you exercise any of your rights. This is a security measure to ensure the non-disclosure of your personal information to an unauthorised person.
You will in general not have to pay a fee to exercise any of your individual rights mentioned in this Privacy Notice. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request to exercise your individual rights is manifestly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint at any time with the National Commission for Data Protection (“CNPD”), the Luxembourg supervisory authority for data protection issues, or any other competent supervisory authority of an EU member state.
8. Links
Our website contains links to Grant Thornton International member and correspondent firm websites, but this Privacy Notice applies only to personal data collected via the Grant Thornton Luxembourg website and to how Grant Thornton Luxembourg processes personal data. It does not apply to specific member or correspondent firms practicing under the Grant Thornton name. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites.
9. Updates to the Privacy Notice
We keep this Privacy Notice under regular review, and we may change, modify, add, or remove portions from the Privacy Notice at any time. We will post any modifications or changes to this Privacy Notice on our website prior to such changes taking effect.
Last update: 16 February 2024