Equity Capital Markets
The Matheson Equity Capital Markets practice is one of the largest and most broad ranging practices in the Irish market.
Our distinctive offering of securities law, corporate, tax and transactional expertise combined with our on-the-ground presence on both East and West coasts of the United States and in London and our bench strength, makes us the law firm of choice to counsel issuers, financial investors and investment banks on their capital markets requirements, including IPOs, direct listings, equity and hybrid fundraisings, buyback programmes, prospectus and market abuse regulation, shareholder engagement, activism defence and corporate governance generally.
In addition to servicing the domestic capital markets, our team has consistently been at the forefront of advising on the largest and most complex listed company re-domiciliation, M&A inversion and capital markets’ transactions involving the corporate and tax migration of global listed corporations to Ireland from other jurisdictions, including the US, Switzerland, the UK and the Netherlands, the listing of their shares on the NYSE, Nasdaq and other international exchanges and their ongoing listed company requirements.
Recent Experience
Our team has recently advised:
- Smurfit Kappa Group plc on its $25.5 billion merger with WestRock Company to form Smurfit Westrock, and the listing of the merged entity on both the NYSE and LSE and S & P 500 Indexation.
- NYSE listed Aon plc, on its $13.4 billion cash and stock acquisition of NFP, advising on all Irish law aspects of the deal, including the offering, issue and registration of approximately $7 billion of Irish parent company shares as part of the deal consideration.
- Orion Infrastructure Capital on the provision of a structured equity facility of up to US$110 million to Carbon Revolution plc in connection with its IPO on the NYSE.
- MariaDB plc on its business combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation and IPO on the NYSE in a deal valuing the combined entity at US$672 million.
- ProKidney LP on its business combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. III and IPO on Nasdaq in a deal valuing the combined entity at US$2.64 billion.
- Smurfit Kappa Group on a €660 million share placing.
- Circle Internet Financial Limited on its announced transaction to go public on the NYSE through a business combination with Concord Acquisition Corp in a deal valuing the combined entity at US$9 billion.
- Weatherford International plc on its US$1.15 billion public listing on Nasdaq.
- crossover group of lenders on a US$1.9 billion financial restructuring of NYSE listed Mallinckrodt plc, which was implemented through a combined use (for the second time in 18 months) of a US Chapter 11 bankruptcy process and an Irish examinership restructuring process.
- group of bond holders on a US$5.3 billion debt-for-equity swap, refinancing and re-listing of Mallinckrodt plc on the NYSE, which was also implemented through a combined use of a US Chapter 11 bankruptcy process and an Irish examinership restructuring process.
- Weatherford International plc, the Irish registered, NYSE listed parent of the Weatherford group of companies on a $7.4 billion debt-for-equity swap and refinancing, which was implemented through the first ever combined use of the US Chapter 11 bankruptcy process and an Irish examinership restructuring process.
- Aon, the global consulting and professional services firm, on its US$38 billion corporate re-domiciliation from the UK to Ireland, and the listing of its new Irish registered holding company, Aon plc, on the NYSE.
- The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund on a secondary block sale of a significant percentage of its stake in Greencoat Renewables plc.
- Cimpress on its US$3.1 billion corporate re-domiciliation from The Netherlands to Ireland, and the listing of its new Irish registered holding company, Cimpress plc, on Nasdaq.
- STERIS, a leading provider of infection prevention and other procedural products and services, on its US$10.5 billion corporate re-domiciliation from the UK to Ireland, and the listing of its new Irish registered holding company, STERIS plc, on the NYSE.
- The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, the cornerstone investor in Greencoat Renewables plc, on the floatation of Greencoat on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and the Euronext Growth market of Euronext Dublin
- Bridgedale and members of Glenveagh management on the €696 million IPO of Glenveagh Properties plc on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext Dublin.
- Credit Suisse (as financial adviser) on the listing of Linde plc on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
