Our corporate lawyers have extensive experience advising our national and international client base on mergers and acquisitions transactions of all sizes. We have advised on some of the most significant Irish M&A transactions in recent years. Our teams advise buyers or sellers of both private and public companies and we have represented some of Ireland’s largest corporates and financial institutions as well as international trade players and private equity groups.
We offer our clients market-leading sector knowledge built up over years of working with clients across all industry sectors. On every transaction, we offer partner-led teams which are supported by the full resources of specialist areas in the firm. We take time to get to know our clients’ specific requirements and work in the way most suited to their needs. This allows us to bring a strategic approach to our work, a deep understanding of industry-specific issues and ensures we consistently provide the highest levels of client service.
If you are considering selling your enterprise or acquiring another enterprise, please feel free to contact one of the team shown below with whom you can discuss your requirements in the strictest of confidence.
If you are currently considering selling your business, or acquiring another business, please feel free to contact one of the team shown below with whom you can discuss your requirements in the strictest of confidence.
Recommendations
Legal 500, 2021
“Highly professional and competent. Excellent balance of legal advice tempered with commercial awareness.” A “superb multidisciplinary firm” with “Excellent partners” and one of “the strongest teams across business and industry in Ireland”.
Chambers & Partners, 2021
Clients praise the team’s "timely, focused and practical advice”.
Chambers & Partners, 2020
"They clearly know their way around the M&A world".
Legal 500, 2020
The team has "clear expertise in the M&A world and the issues that constantly arise on both buyer and seller side".
Chambers & Partners, 2019
Full service offering which is "very proactive, attentive and respond straight away."
- Advised SCISYS on its inversion under an Irish holding company and admission to AIM and Euronext Dublin and on the recommended offer by way of scheme of arrangement by CGI, Inc.
- Advised JP Morgan Securities plc on its role as financial adviser to Mediahuis NV in connection with its recommended offer by way of scheme of arrangement for Independent News & Media plc.
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Advising IMC Exploration Group plc in its all share acquisition of the Karaberd gold mine in Lori Marz, northern Armenia by means of a reverse takeover transaction with MVI Ireland s.r.o, conditional on the issue of an FCA approved prospectus, a waiver of Rule 9 of the Irish Takeover Rules by the Irish Takeover Panel and shareholder approval by IMC’s shareholders.
- Advising Virgin Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Global, on its acquisition of UTV Ireland from ITV plc.
- Advised Genable Technologies Limited, an Irish privately held venture-capital backed biopharmaceutical company, on the sale of the company to Spark Therapeutics Inc., a NASDAQ listed leading US gene therapy company.
- Advising McKesson Corporation on its acquisition of the pharmaceutical distribution business of Irish FTSE 250 company, UDG Healthcare plc.
- Acted for Activision Blizzard, Inc. on its US$5.9 billion offer for King Digital Entertainment plc by way of a scheme of arrangement.
- Acted for the shareholders in SteriPack Limited on the sale of its medical device packaging operations and related value-added services to Bemis Company, Inc.
- Acted for the shareholders in OSG Outsource Services Group Limited which was acquired by Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc.
- Acting for Dragon Oil plc on the recommended Stg£3.7bn cash offer by Emirates National Oil Company.
- Advised Markit, a leading global diversified provider of financial information services, on its acquisition of Information Mosaic.
- Acting for Deutsche Bank A.G.on the recommended €1.4bn offer by IAG for Aer Lingus.
- Acted for Ormonde Mining on the hostile approach from Almonty and €90m debt and equity investment by Oaktree in its Tungsten mine at Barruecapardo, Spain.
- Acting for Tribute Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc., headquartered in Ontario, in its combination with POZEN Inc., headquartered in North Carolina, under a new Irish holding company to be named Aralez Pharmaceuticals plc.
