Grant Thornton LLP encompasses the U.S. operations of Grant Thornton International, the sixth-largest U.S. accounting organization behind the Big Four (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PwC) and McGladrey & Pullen, LLP. The member firms of Grant Thornton International comprise a global network of more than 30,000 employees and 2,207 partners in more than 110 countries. Composite revenues of Grant Thornton International member firms in 2007 were $3.5 billion. Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm and the organization’s largest, operating out of 50 offices with more than 5,000 employees and 499 partners. U.S. revenue growth has doubled over the past four years — exceeding $1 billion in 2007.

Grant Thornton LLP has three service lines: audit, tax, and advisory services. Specific advisory services and areas of expertise include: Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, mergers and acquisitions advice, tax, management consulting, and business valuations. Target industries include construction, consumer products, financial services, government contracting, public sector and quasi governmental organizations, health care, not-for-profit, and technology.

Grant Thornton International is a global professional services network of independent accounting and consulting member firms which provide assurance, tax and specialist advisory services (SAS) to privately held businesses, public interest entities, and public sector entities. Grant Thornton International Ltd is a not-for-profit, non-practicing, international umbrella membership entity organized as a private company limited by guarantee. Grant Thornton is incorporated in London, United Kingdom, and has no share capital.

According to Grant Thornton International, member firms within the global organization operate in over 100 countries. Combined global revenues from member firms in 2011 was US$3.8 billion. There are over 2,500 member firm partners and total member firm personnel of over 31,000. These firms help dynamic organisations unlock their potential for growth by providing meaningful, actionable advice through a broad range of services.

In 1924, 26-year-old Alexander Richardson Grant founded Alexander Grant & Co. in Chicago. Grant had been a senior accountant with Ernst & Ernst (now Ernst & Young). Alexander Grant was committed to providing services to mid-sized companies.

Paul Hughes (born 19 April 1976 in Hammersmith) is a retired English footballer who played in midfield.

Hughes began his career with his local side, Chelsea, and started well, scoring on his debut against Derby County with an impressive solo effort. Thereafter, however, his career was stalled by injuries, successive managers' squad rotation policies and the signing of other midfielders like Roberto Di Matteo, Gustavo Poyet and Didier Deschamps.

Over the next three years he only featured in 24 more games for the club, and had loan spells with Stockport County, Crewe Alexandra and Norwich City (where he scored once against Swindon Town). Hughes joined Southampton, then managed by his old Chelsea manager Glenn Hoddle, on a free transfer in the summer of 2000, but left a year later having never played a game for the Saints. Hughes' next club was Luton Town, where he remained until May 2006, making 88 appearances and scoring seven goals for the club.