Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions

John is a partner in the Corporate M&A Group and a member of our cross-departmental Healthcare and Life Sciences Group.

John specialises in corporate transactions (both domestic and international) including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements, equity fundraisings, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and restructurings, corporate redomiciliations and general commercial matters. He advises leading Irish and multi-national public and private companies on private M&A and public company transactional mandates. John has particular experience in the Life Science and Aviation sectors, having worked on many significant corporate transactions in these sectors in recent years.

David is a partner and Co-Head of the Firm’s Corporate Department and Head of the Corporate M&A Group.

He has extensive experience assisting clients across a range of industries on doing business in and from Ireland,  including advising on acquisitions/disposals, capital raisings, corporate migrations, cross-border mergers, joint ventures and reorganisations. David has significant experience advising on take-private transactions and has advised on many of Ireland’s most notable transactions.

He has worked with a wide range of domestic and international corporations providing ongoing strategic advice to their boards. He has a broad-based practice reflecting his considerable experience across the agri-food, financial services, healthcare / life sciences and manufacturing sectors.

Enda Garvey is a Partner in Matheson’s Corporate M&A Group, he specialises in international and domestic public and private M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions.

Enda has extensive experience advising on many of the most high profile acquisitions and investments made by energy and infrastructure investors and international private equity funds in Ireland in the past 10 years.

Enda also advises a number of domestic and international corporate clients on their corporate transactions and investments in Ireland, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure and agri-food and beverage sectors.

David is a partner in the Corporate M&A Group, based in Matheson’s New York office.

David advises on a broad range of public and private company transactions, specialising in equity capital markets deals, public company M&A (hostile and recommended offers), group reorganisations and corporate redomiciliations.

He also advises corporate and individual clients on European securities law, Irish and UK Listing Rules and the Irish Takeover Rules, as well as Irish company law.

Caroline is a senior corporate M&A partner and has been leading the corporate transactions team within the Financial Institutions Group since 2021. Caroline is a leading transactional lawyer specialising in the financial services sector, with over 15 years’ experience advising on a broad range of international and domestic corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investment, equity capital markets transactions and corporate reorganisations. Her clients include many of the world’s leading financial institutions, asset management and insurance market players.

Sandie is a partner in Matheson’s Corporate Department. She advises on international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, shareholders’ agreements, investment agreements and joint ventures, venture capital, corporate reorganisations and restructurings.

Sandie represents public and private companies, institutional investors and financial intermediaries engaged in a variety of industries and sectors including technology, energy and media.  Since 2022, Sandie has been the resident Corporate partner in Matheson’s London office.

Robert is a partner in the Corporate M&A Group. Robert advises on all aspects of corporate transactions (both domestic and international) including mergers and acquisitions (both strategic and private equity), shareholder arrangements, growth equity, equity fundraisings, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and restructurings and general commercial matters.

Having previously worked in New York with a leading US corporate law firm, Robert has particular expertise in large-scale domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions, acting on both the buy-side and the sell-side in a variety of industries and sectors.  He is one of the go-to advisors for international financial sponsor investors transacting in the Irish market and has considerable experience across a number of industry sectors including real assets, infrastructure, engineering, technology and business services.

Brian has spent more than twenty years advising international companies, in both the UK and Ireland, on corporate law matters including public and private company M&A, private equity transactions, equity fundraisings, reorganisations, joint ventures, refinancings and general commercial matters.

Brian has particular expertise in cross-border M&A and private equity. Brian has experience across a range of sectors acting for both buyers and sellers. Brian also counsels corporate clients on a broad range of governance and business-related matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities and general compliance matters.

Susanne is a partner in Matheson’s Corporate Group specialising in corporate advisory matters and equity capital markets transactions.

Susanne has particular expertise in corporate governance and compliance matters and in securities regulation under the Market Abuse Regulation and the Transparency and Prospectus regimes, the Irish Listing Rules and the Irish Takeover Rules.

Rory is a partner in the firm’s Corporate M&A Group and is based in Matheson’s London office.

He also works closely with the Asset Management, Finance and Capital Markets, Financial Regulation and Tax practices to coordinate services provided to our private capital clients.

Throughout his career, he has focused in particular in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and private equity.

Patrick Spicer is a partner in the Corporate M&A Group, and chairperson of Matheson. He is a former Head of the Matheson’s Corporate and Commercial Department.

Patrick acts for a large range of internationally-focused companies doing business in and from Ireland, and specialises in particular in public and private company M&A, private equity transactions, equity fundraisings, reorganisations and refinancings.

Patrick is a previous winner of the International Law Office Client Choice award for Corporate Law in Ireland.

Patrick is also a member of the Council, and a director, of Dublin Chamber, and is a former director of Junior Achievement Ireland.

Madeline is a partner in the Corporate Department in Matheson specialising in mergers and acquisitions (public takeovers and private M&A), equity capital markets transactions, advisory matters and securities law.

Madeline has advised on many of the most significant Irish corporate transactions of recent years, involving international and Irish public and private companies across a wide range of industries and sectors.

In addition to her cross-border M&A experience, Madeline’s practice involves advising on joint ventures, private equity, corporate restructurings, reorganisations and capital-raising transactions.

Rob is a partner in the Corporate M&A Group. He advises on all aspects of corporate transactions and corporate law matters, including private M&A, shareholder arrangements, joint ventures, equity fundraisings and reorganisations.

He has extensive experience in advising on cross-border private M&A transactions (acting for both buyers and sellers) across a range of sectors, having previously worked in a global law firm in the United Arab Emirates for a number of years.

Rob has a particular focus on private M&A transactions in the healthcare sector, and regularly works with international and domestic clients, including operators and private equity and infrastructure funds, on investments into, and divestments of, various healthcare assets and portfolios, including long term care homes, disability and rehabilitation facilities, private hospitals and other healthcare clinics, as well as medical device and manufacturing businesses.

Brian is a partner in the firm’s Corporate M&A Group, based in the Dublin office.

He advises on a broad range of corporate matters, including public and private mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, reorganisations and equity capital markets transactions.  In addition to transactional representations Brian also advises clients on governance matters and ongoing regulatory compliance.

Brian spent over 12 years in London working for a leading US law firm and an elite international firm. He has particular expertise in advising international and domestic clients on complex, high value cross-border transactions. Prior to joining Matheson he was a partner in another leading Irish law firm.

Fergus Bolster is a partner in the firm’s Corporate M&A Group, where he advises on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, corporate restructurings and reorganisations (including corporate re-domiciliation and demerger transactions), financings and investments and corporate governance.

Fergus represents public and private companies, financial sponsors, State bodies and investment banks, transacting in a variety of industries and sectors, including technology, energy and healthcare.  He has led the Matheson teams advising on some of the largest and most-complex public and private M&A, capital markets, corporate restructuring and inbound and outbound re-domiciliation transactions of recent years in the Irish market.  Fergus is widely recognised for his actionable advice and understanding of the issues faced by Irish public companies listed in the US, in particular relating to the interaction of Irish and US corporate and securities laws.

Fergus counsels corporate clients on a broad range of governance and business-related matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities, ESG, disclosure obligations and compliance matters.  This advice is often provided to boards and individual directors in situations where the satisfaction of their fiduciary duties may be subject to public or enhanced scrutiny.

George is a partner in the firm’s Corporate M&A Group.  In over 25 years of practice, he has advised on many of the most significant and complex Irish corporate transactions across a range of industry sectors.

George is listed as a leading corporate lawyer across a range of publications including IFLR1000, Chambers Europe and The Legal 500.