Irish Auditors Merge, Create All-Island Giant

by Jason Gorringe, Tax-News.com, London

07 September 2006

Three of Ireland’s leading financial practices on Tuesday announced the merger of their businesses, creating the largest all-island independent firm of business advisors and consultants.

The merger of Dublin firm Farrell Grant Sparks (FGS) with Northern Ireland’s McClure Watters and Longford based Lyons Keenan Kilemade will also create the sixth largest practice in the country, with 20 partners and 200 staff.

David Watters, Managing Partner with McClure Watters announced that:

“With our newly acquired cross-border presence we are now strongly positioned to advise clients in all sectors of the business community throughout Ireland."

Through FGS’s membership of Moores Rowland International (MRI), one of the largest independent accounting and consultancy groups in the world, the newly-merged firm’s clients will have access to global support for international business.

The practice will specialise in: taxation and wealth management; audit; internal audit and corporate compliance; corporate restructuring and insolvency; corporate finance; public policy; management consultancy (including socio-economic analysis, strategic reviews, human resources and ICT); public private partnerships and major property procurement.

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