Barry Grandon

About Barry Grandon

Managing Director in Grant Thornton\'s Transaction Advisory Services group specializing in corporate mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, integrations, restructurings, joint ventures, and financing activities. Provides tax and structuring advice to both private equity and corporate clients within a transaction environment. Comprehensive experience in identifying and addressing client needs while developing sustained client relationships. Effective use of networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell/cross-sell service opportunities. Presentation of complex written and verbal materials in plain business speak. Define resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection. Detailed experience as a team leader: leading teams to generate a vision, establish direction and motivate members, create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, and encourage improvement and innovation. Specialties: Extensive technical skills, including the application and interpretation of U.S. federal income tax law as it relates to Subchapter C corporations, Subchapter S corporations, partnerships, consolidated groups, corporate bankruptcies and insolvencies, tax efficient structuring and use of debt, the reorganization provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, technical writing and reviewing of opinion letters and memoranda, as well as tax due diligence exercises.

Experience

1. Managing Director - Transaction Advisory Services - Tax

   Grant Thornton (US)

   Jan 2013 — Present

   Accomplished and results-focused finance and legal professional with 20+ years of experience in corporate tax activities in tax due diligence, mergers and acquisitions and integrations. History of identifying cost-optimized, risk-mitigated tax and financial structures within a transaction environment, leveraging first-class tax and legal expertise to deliver solutions and results. Understands and addresses client needs, conducts extensive research, and cultivates lasting professional relationships. Demonstrated ability to critically evaluate and respond to continuously evolving financial environments.

Education

• Ohio Northern University—Claude W. Pettit College of Law

  JD, Law

  1984 — 1987

• Ohio University

  BS, Computers

  1977 — 1981

• Boston University School of Law

  LL.M., Taxation

  1988 — 1989

• Greenwich HS

  GS