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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
Grant Thornton Audit and Assurance is accredited by the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (CNPD) to provide GDPR-CARPA certifications for organisations.
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Forensic Audit
Grant Thornton Luxembourg has the forensic and business skills to deal with the most complex situations. A multi-disciplinary team of dedicated accountants in consultation with lawyers, IT consultants, insurance experts, valuation specialists and actuaries may be engaged when necessary.
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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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External DPO and Data Protection Compliance
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 & ESG Services
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
Since May 2023, the Whistleblower Law has become effective in Luxembourg. What does this mean for your business? Our experts can advise and help you to set-up internal reporting channels and to comply with the new law.
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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
Is your organisation resilient to information security threats? Whether you're a large enterprise or a small business, Grant Thornton is committed to providing comprehensive security services tailored to your needs.
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IT Audit
Grant Thornton internal audit team provides IT audit services as part of your internal audit or as part of any specific IT audit that is required (ad’hoc , assurance reports, external audits).
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MySmartOffice
Grant Thornton Luxembourg offers a new complete online accounting and consulting solution for SMEs named MySmartOffice to access financial and operational information instantly online.
Implementing the Sustainable Finance framework
As the world grapples with the impacts of climate change, financial institutions and regulatory bodies increasingly recognise the importance of integrating sustainability into their operations. In response to this growing need, Luxembourg's Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has recently outlined its supervisory priorities in sustainable finance, demonstrating its commitment to shaping a more environmentally and socially responsible financial sector.
The CSSF's primary objective is to ensure a cohesive implementation of the sustainable finance framework across the financial sector while integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) requirements into its supervisory practices. Recognising the evolving nature of the regulatory landscape, the CSSF will gradually incorporate relevant changes into its supervision process. However, responsibility for compliance with applicable requirements remains with the supervised entities and their board members. They are expected to prioritise integrating ESG factors into their governance, risk management, and compliance tools.
In this context, the CSSF has set specific supervisory priorities for credit institutions, asset management firms, investment firms, and issuers.
Priorities for financial market players
For credit institutions, the focus lies in three main areas: transparency and disclosures, risk management and governance, and MiFID rules related to sustainability. The CSSF aims to ensure that credit institutions adhere to the disclosure obligations outlined in the SFDR Regulation. Additionally, it plans to review the level of alignment of the banking sector with its expectations regarding the management of climate-related and environmental risks, as outlined in Circular CSSF 21/773. Finally, the CSSF will assess the industry's practical implementation of the sustainability-related MiFID rules.
In the asset management industry, the CSSF's supervisory priorities encompass organisational arrangements of Investment Fund Managers (IFMs), verification of compliance with pre-contractual and periodic disclosures, consistency of information in fund documentation and marketing material, compliance of product website disclosures, and portfolio analysis. The CSSF will continue to monitor IFMs' compliance with the SFDR, the SFDR RTS, and the Taxonomy Regulation, ensuring they integrate sustainability risks into their activities.
Investment firms are subject to supervisory priorities that include transparency and disclosures, risk management and governance, and MiFID rules related to sustainability. The CSSF will gradually implement the supervision of ESG risks for investment firms, prioritising the recognition of ESG risks in their strategies and governance arrangements. It will also ensure that investment firms adhere to disclosure obligations under the SFDR and assess the practical implementation of MiFID rules related to sustainability.
For issuers, the CSSF has identified climate-related matters as a priority for both International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) financial statements and non-financial statements. It will also focus on the information required under Article 8 of the Taxonomy Regulation for relevant issuers, which requires them to disclose the alignment of their economic activities with climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives.
Luxembourg as hub of Sustainable Finance
Recognising the international and cross-cutting nature of sustainable finance, the CSSF aims to ensure Luxembourg's representation in national, European, and international groups driving sustainable finance initiatives. It supports the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and international bodies such as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), and the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) in promoting a coherent, cohesive, and consistent, sustainable finance framework.
In conclusion, the CSSF's supervisory priorities in sustainable finance mark a significant step towards fostering a more responsible and sustainable financial sector in Luxembourg. By actively addressing the challenges posed by climate change and promoting the integration of ESG factors into the practices of financial institutions, the CSSF is paving the way for a more resilient and sustainable economy, ultimately contributing to global efforts in combating climate change and promoting social responsibility.
Contact
If you wish to understand how you could best implement ESG matters into your governance, risk management and enhance your transparency on entity and product disclosures, please contact our Head of Sustainability & ESG Services Fani Xylouri.