M&A

Irish companies continued to attract near-record levels of M&A activity in the first four months of 2022, despite the challenging geopolitical and macro-economic global backdrop, according to data from EY Ireland. There were 60 Irish M&A deals with a combined value of almost $3.3 billion USD

Arthur Cox has been named as Ireland's M&A legal adviser of the year at the Mergermarket European M&A Awards 2021 in London. The annual awards recognise the achievements of Europe's top dealmakers and reward innovative advisory work on the most transformative deals of the past year.

Tughans has been named Northern Ireland’s most active corporate law firm, as it topped the Northern Ireland league table in the Experian MarketIQ M&A review for a seventh year in a row. The Belfast-based law firm advised on 73 deals during 2021 with an overall value of more than &poun

The Irish M&A market recorded 240 significant transactions in 2021, a 33 per cent rise on 2020 and the highest deal volume since 2006. The William Fry M&A Review 2021, in association with Mergermarket, also found that total M&A value recovered significantly, rising by 185 per cent to &eu

M&A activity in Ireland rose by 27 per cent in 2021, making it a record-breaking year, the latest Experian report on dealmaking activity shows. In total, there were 628 transactions announced in 2021 – up on the 495 deals recorded during 2020. Market sentiment is positive, funding is readi

Mergers and acquisitions activity in Northern Ireland last year rose by 38 per cent to 238 deals, the second largest annual total on Experian record, the business adviser's latest report shows. Belfast law firm Tughans advised on 73 qualifying deals to head up the legal volume table in 2021, wi

A&L Goodbody has topped the M&A league tables for 2021 in terms of volume and value of deals, according to new figures. The law firm advised on 77 deals worth €48.2 billion in a bumper year that saw a record 682 deals worth €88.3 billion overall.

A&L Goodbody (ALG) has been ranked as Northern Ireland's top legal adviser by both value and volume of total M&A deals in 2021 so far. According to the latest report from global information services company Experian, ALG's Belfast office acted on 46 deals worth over £1.1 billion in the

M&A activity in Ireland reached a record high in the first six months of 2021, according to a new report published by law firm William Fry in association with Mergermarket. There were 106 deals recorded in the first half of the year, a 33 per cent rise on the same period in 2020 and the most of

The period of "extreme uncertainty" in the Irish M&A market is drawing to a close, William Fry has said following a report showing the total value of Irish deals increased by 14 per cent to €9.1 billion last year in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. The law firm today published its M&A Re

Commercial law firm Tughans has topped the Experian M&A and Real Estate Advisor League Table by deal count for a sixth year in a row. Of the 168 deals involving a Northern Ireland firm in 2020, Tughans advised on 49 of them – nearly a third.

Arthur Cox has advised on 33 deals worth €1.7 billion in the year to date, more than any other Irish law firm by volume or value. The latest Experian M&A Review reports that deal-making in Ireland has "proved resilient in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic" with 325 deals over the year to da

The volume and value of deals in Northern Ireland have dropped to their lowest recorded level since 2013, according to a new report. After years of strong growth, there have been just 91 transactions worth £234 million involving a Northern Ireland company so far this year, the latest Experian

The Lawyer has produced a special report on changes to the M&A landscape in Ireland in 2020. "Like every M&A market globally, the areas in which deal activity in Ireland has been concentrated during the first half of 2020 has, to a large extent, been driven by the impact of Covid-19 on busin

There is reason to be "cautiously optimistic" about a rise in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the second half of 2020, a senior corporate lawyer has said. Stephen Keogh, head of corporate and M&A at William Fry, said 2020 is "likely to represent one of the lowest, if not the lowes