Alan Johnston is a Partner in the A&L Goodbody Corporate Department. Alan advises a variety of Irish and international clients and semi-state bodies on a wide range of practice areas including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, partnership law, corporate restructuring and general commercial matters.
Alan's experience includes advising:
- Quinn Group in relation to the management buy-out of Quinn Healthcare;
- Irish Life & Permanent plc on its €2.7bn State recapitalisation;
- Tim Hortons on the unwind of it CAN$475mn Irish joint venture with Aryzta;
- Kraft/Cadbury on the restructuring of various group treasury arrangements;
- Waha Capital on the unwind of existing Irish joint venture arrangements, the organisation of various Irish aircraft leasing companies into a new joint venture arrangement and the Irish aspects of Waha's subsequent investment in Aercap;
- Heineken in its £7.8bn joint acquisition of Scottish & Newcastle;
- Cadbury Schweppes on its €1.8bn disposal of Europe Beverages;
- SR Technics Ireland on the sale of its property and assets at Dublin Airport to the DAA and Dublin Aerospace;
- Doosan Infracore on the acquisition of Ingersoll Rand's Irish operations;
- Sequence on its acquisition of the Alliance Medical group;
- Shell on the sale of both it's Irish retail and bitumen businesses;
- SR Technics Switzerland on the acquisition of SR Technics Airfoil Services.
In recent months Alan has also advised on a number of high profile group restructurings, insolvencies, contractual disputes, distribution arrangements, loan and other financing agreements and partnership law (including limited partnership arrangements).
Alan is highly recommended in a number of legal publications where he has been described as "a star of the future" (Legal 500 2011). He is also recommended in IFLR1000 2012.
Alan has tutored in Competition Law in Trinity College Dublin and lectured in Mergers & Acquisitions in the Law Society of Ireland.