Practice Areas
- Corporate
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Banking & Financial Services
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Corporate Restructuring, Recovery & Insolvency
- Corporate Migration/Inward Investment
- Tax Structuring
Specialist Areas
Transactions
- Sale of Pre-eminent Private Hospital
- Advice to Mater Private Hospital shareholders in the sale of the Mater Private to CapVest, a venture capital fund.
- Transaction Value: €385,000,000
- Co-Location of private medical facility with public hospital
- Bid to construct and operate co-located medical facilities at sites across Ireland involved entering into a complex tender process and the strategic support it needed to prepare its tender.
- Transaction Value: Excess of €200,000,000
- Review of Banking Security for International Client
- Engagement by a large international bank to review part of its loan book, the assignability of various loans and supporting security governed by Irish law and the preparation of new security.
- Transaction Value: €100,000,000.
- Media
- Sale of six regional newspaper titles in Ireland. Sale of regional radio stations in Ireland.
- Transaction Value: €100,000,000.
- Internationally Structured Acquisition
- Large private equity house's acquisition of industry leading facilities management company.
- Transaction Value: €90,000,000.
- Development of Private Healthcare Facility
- Euro Care International development of a private healthcare facility in Waterford. Advised on construction, commercial, banking and operational legal requirements of the project.
- Transaction Value: €80,000,000.
- Successful Defence of Claim for Breach of Contract of a Commercial Contract
- Defence of a Commercial Court action for breach of contract which resulted in settlement win for our client.
- Value: €50,000,000.
- Sale of Trans-national Waste Management Company
- An intricate international transaction for a leading international waste management company.
- Transaction Value: Undisclosed.
- Debt Restructuring
- Hotel & leisure industry Commercial Court action taken by various lending institutions resulting in restructuring and capitalisation of debt.
- Transaction Value: €20,000,000.
- Energy
- Acted for BP in a proposed new power station in Ireland.
- Overseas Commercial Property Transactions
- Legal advice and services in relation to the acquisition and financing of investment properties based in the London, France, Germany, Sweden and the United States.
- Value: Excess €2,000,000,000.
Recommendations
Legal 500 2009: Corporate/M&A & Commercial practice, Banking & Finance practice and Commercial Real Estate practice. The firm is praised for giving advice that is ‘business practical rather than typically conservative’.
PLC Which Lawyer? 2009: Recommends our Corporate/M&A practice and Banking & Finance practice.
Brian O'Donnell: is recommended in PLC Which Lawyer 2009 as "an experienced lawyer in a firm specialising in international as well as domestic banking and finance, structured finance and inward investment".
Global Counsel 3000: Our Banking & Finance practice is highly recommended.