Private Equity: Experience
General Private Equity
- Permira on various Irish acquisitions including Creganna, ancestry.com, Arysta LifeSciences and the Green Isle Group
- Spectrum Equity Management on its acquisition of an undisclosed stake in Digital Marketing Institute
- Hg Capital on the sale of a majority stake in Invis Energy to Sojitz Corporation, Mitsuibishi UFJ Lease and Finance and Kansai Electric Power
- Volpi Capital on its €90m equity investment in Version1
- Bertram Capital Management on the acquisition of the Anord Group of companies
- CPPIB on its proposed €830m acquisition of Shell's interest in the Corrib Gas Field
- Alchemy Partners on the sale of Noonan Services Group to Bidvest Group
- Battery Ventures on its investment in Learnosity Holdings
- InfraVia Capital Partners on its acquisition of the telecoms infrastructure business of Coillte
- Highland Capital Partners on its acquisition of a majority stake in Advanced Manufacturing Control Systems
- Warburg Pincus on its €630m secondary buyout of Clondalkin Group from Candover
- FL Partners on its €244m acquisition of The Racing Post
- Fintrax on its disposal to the company’s management team and Exponent Private Equity
- CapVest Equity Partners on the acquisition of the Mater Private Hospital from the management team of Mater Private
- Cardinal Carlyle on its acquisition of Sam McCauley Chemists and on the investment in AA Ireland
- InfraVia Capital Partners on its acquisition of the telecoms infrastructure business of Coillte
- Lily O'Brien's Chocolates' vendor on the sale to Carlyle Cardinal Ireland's first private equity deal in Ireland
- Fountain Healthcare on a number of acquisitions
- Cardinal Carlyle Ireland Fund on its disposals of AA Ireland and Carroll Cuisine
- Genstar Capital and its portfolio company Advarra, Inc. on the its acquisition of Longboat, an Irish provider of clinical trial technologies focused on site training, protocol compliance, and patient engagement
- Gresham House Ventures on its investment in Scurri Web Services Limited
FUND FORMATION & OTHER PRIVATE EQUITY WORK
- Clients include: Fortress, Alcentra, Apollo, Carlyle, Babson, ICG, M&G Prudential, Oaktree Capital Partners, Warburg Pincus, Bain Capital, Thomas H. Lee, Kelso Partners and Key Capital.
- Set up of sophisticated structures for US private equity funds to enable them to receive income from portfolio companies free of US withholding tax.
- SVG Capital & Key Capital on the establishment of funds to invest in underlying private equity funds.
- General corporate advice to UK and US private equity funds in respect of platforms for investing and trading in various asset classes.
- Fountain Healthcare Partners Limited on the establishment of Fountain Healthcare Partners Fund I, L.P., a significant venture capital fund established to invest in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors.
- A number of large US and UK private equity firms on tax work for hybrid structures and the set up of private foundations.
- A US$560m aircraft securitisation transaction by ACS Aircraft Finance Ireland arranged by Fortress Investments.