Berni Hosty is a partner in A&L Goodbody's Corporate and M&A group. Berni advises a wide range of clients on corporate transactions, both in the domestic market and on international deals, across a variety of business and industry sectors. Her key areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and cross border amalgamations.
Areas of Expertise
Corporate and M&A/Commercial Contracts
Experience Advising:
- General Electric on the sale of GECAS, its aircraft leasing platform, to AerCap.
- SMBC Aviation Capital on its acquisition of Goshawk Aviation.
- Bank of Ireland on its acquisition of the Davy wealth management and capital markets services platform.
- The Ferrero Group on its acquisition of FULFIL Nutrition.
- BellCap Group on its acquisition of Bunalun Organic Foods.
- Ulster Bank and NatWest on the strategic withdrawal from the Irish market.
- ABP on various acquisitions and joint ventures.
- Integer on its acquisition of Aran Biomedical.
- Citibank on the crossborder merger of Citibank International and Citibank Europe.
- ICON plc on its acquisition of PRA.
- The Committee of Senior Lenders to eircom on the acquisition of eircom out of examinership.
- PartnerRe on its court approved cross border conversion to a Societas Europaea and on a related $1.4 billion capital reduction.
- International Power, part of the GDF Suez group, on the court approved cross border amalgamation of its Irish, Italian and Hungarian IP Maestrale wind energy business.
Market Recommendations
"Highly regarded M&A lawyer." (IFLR1000 2025)
Education
- LLB, B.Corp Law, NUI, Galway
- Diploma, Applied Finance Law, Law Society of Ireland
- Admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in Ireland
Berni Hosty
Partner,
Corporate and M&A
Dublin