“You learn lessons, but when times come good again, you can often forget them”

Michael McAteer is used to seeing businesses in distress. The incoming managing partner of Grant Thornton Ireland has made a career out of being first on the scene when it all goes wrong. As a partner in recovery and reorganisation, the last ten years have been busy for him. But his roots as a corporate rescue specialist stretch back to his first jobs after qualifying in the late 1980s, when he joined up ...