Paul Fahy is a Partner in the Tax Department of A&L Goodbody. He qualified into the Firm's tax department in 2002. Between 2003 and 2008, Paul worked in the tax department of Slaughter and May in London and re-joined the tax department of A&L Goodbody in 2008.
Paul specialises in corporate tax and has extensive experience of advising domestic and international clients on the tax aspects of public and private mergers & acquisitions, group restructurings, inward investment projects, securitisations, derivatives and structured products. A particular focus of his practice is advising hedge funds and private equity houses on the structuring of their investments.
Paul also co-heads our Silicon Valley representative office, through which the Firm engages with our US West Coast based clients and law firm intermediaries.
Paul has contributed articles on tax matters to a number of leading legal and tax journals and has also spoken at conferences on international tax matters.
Paul is a member of the Law Society of Ireland, the Law Society of England & Wales (non-practicing) and is an Associate of the Irish Taxation Institute.
Recent transactions that Paul has worked on include advising:
- Quinn Group in relation to the management buy-out of Quinn Healthcare.
- Premier Foods on the sale of its Irish brands and its manufacturing Co-Packaging arrangements with Boyne Valley Foods.
- GenNx Capital Partners (US private equity) in connection with its increased shareholding in Syncreon.
- Elan on the proposed merger of Elan Drug Technologies with Alkermes Inc.
- Bank of Ireland in connection with the sale of its custody and administration business Bank of Ireland Securities Services ("BoISS") to Northern Trust Corporation.
- Permira in connection with its acquisition of Creganna Tactx Medical.
- Bank of Ireland in connection with the sale of Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM) to State Street Corporation.
- RHJ International in connection with its acquisition of KBC Asset Management.
- The sellers in connection with the disposal of Batchelors Foods to the Valeo Foods Group.
- Axereal Union de Cooperatives Agricoles in connection with its acquisition of the Irish, UK and Belgian malting businesses of Greencore plc.
- The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC in its role as lead manager on a securitisation of a portfolio of corporate loans originated by Ulster Bank.