Our Corporate and M&A team advises on all aspects of establishing, managing and restructuring public and private companies in Ireland.
Our services cover not-for-profit companies, private trading companies, public companies and listed companies. Working with specialist colleagues, we provide comprehensive legal and tax services for company promoters, sponsors, and shareholders.
We address the key issues at every stage of company development, including:
- Private Companies: formation, share structures, meetings, corporate governance, restructurings and corporate re-organisations.
- Public Companies: conversion from private to public, offers for sale, rights issues, AGM’s, prospectuses and listing particulars, tax-driven restructurings and corporate governance.
- Not-for-Profit Companies: formation and structuring, guidance to boards of directors, regulatory environment and corporate governance.
Representative transactional experience includes advising:
- Numerous intra-group re-organisations under the merger regime introduced under the Companies Act, 2014.
- On the first domestic merger under the Companies Act, 2014, which involved the merger of two regulated financial services companies.
- A global risk management group – acting as Irish legal counsel on a €350m corporate re-organisation.
- An international commercial aircraft leasing company on the re-organisation of Irish group companies.
- Boards of regulated entities on corporate governance matters.
