Expertise

"Very experienced and is therefore able to be see the bigger picture on transactions, doesn't get bogged down in academic/small unimportant points. Really commercial and pragmatic as well as diligent and reliable."
IFLR1000 33rd edition 2023

Robert has recently advised on a significant number of the most valuable and high profile transactions undertaken in the Irish market, including:

Private Equity / Growth Equity

• Advising Macquarie Asset Management in relation to its agreement to acquire the Beacon Hospital in Dublin, subject to customary regulatory approvals. 
• Advising Macquarie Asset Management in relation to its acquisition of Beauparc Utilities, the leading Irish and UK recycling and processing led waste-to-resource business.
• Advising Waystone on the completion of an investment by Montagu Private Equity and Hg Capital.
• Advising lead investors QED Investors, Left Lane Capital and DST Global in relation to their participation in the $150m Series B fundraise for Wayflyer.
• Advising Waystone in relation to its acquisition of Centaur Group, an established global fund administration and fiduciary services provider headquartered in Ireland.
• Advising Waterland Private Equity in relation to their investment in MTM Engineering, an Irish headquartered specialist data centre cable expert providing turn-key cable installation and termination services.
• Advising Curriculum Associates, LLC, a leading U.S. K-12 company (and private equity backed company) in relation to its acquisition of Soapbox Labs Limited, an Irish headquartered global leader in voice AI for kids, powering equity-driven learning experiences for students.
• Advising private equity firm Waterland and its portfolio company MTM Engineering in relation to its acquisition of CET Connect, an Irish-headquartered leading provider of structured cabling, IT network infrastructure and fibre optic services. 
• Advising Beeline (a private equity backed company), the independent leader in software solutions for sourcing and managing the global extended workforce, in connection with the Irish-law aspects of its acquisition of Utmost, a next-generation extended workforce solutions company;
• Advising private equity firm Waterland and its portfolio company MTM Engineering in relation to its acquisition of ATSS Ventures, a specialist provider of structured cabling and fibre optic cabling services.
• Advising Lead Edge Capital, a growth stage fund based in New York and California, on the sale of Immedis Limited, an Irish head-quartered global payroll software developer to UKG, one of the biggest privately owned software groups in the US;
• Advising Bregal Milestone LP in connection with its $70 million investment in Teamwork, a leading global Project Management SaaS solution focused company.
• Advising Felicis Ventures, a US-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage to growth-stage investments in a variety of companies, in relation to its lead investor role in the Tines Security Series B2 fundraise.
• Advising Bregal Milestone LP in connection with its $160 million sale of Arkphire, a Dublin-headquartered IT product procurement and IT services company, to US headquartered Presidio.
• Advising Left Lane Capital, in relation to their lead role in the Wayflyer $76 million Series A raise.
• Advising Lead Edge Capital, a growth stage fund based in New York and California, on its $50 million equity investment in Immedis Limited, an Irish head-quartered global payroll software developer.

Strategic M&A

• Advising Vertex Inc., a leading global provider of tax technology solutions, on their $200 million acquisition of Taxamo, a cloud-based pioneer in tax and payment automation for global e-commerce and marketplaces.
• Advising Fanatics Betting and Gaming (a subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc.), on its acquisition of the U.S. operations of Australian sports betting company, PointsBet. 
• Advising BAADER, a globally renowned manufacturer and supplier of food processing machinery and solutions, in relation to its acquisition of a majority stake in Emydex Technology Limited, an Irish-headquartered international leader in the provision of scalable Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software for the food processing sector.
• Advising the largest selling shareholder in Irish alarm monitoring company HomeSecure on the sale of the business to PhoneWatch.
• Advising the shareholders of Pathfinder, an Irish consulting group, in connection with the acquisition of the company by the global management consulting firm Sia Partners.
• Advising Beltany Property Finance DAC and Pepper Finance Corporation (Ireland) DAC, in relation to the sale of Aut Even Hospital, an Ireland-based private hospital to UPMC.
• Advising CSG (Nasdaq-listed) in relation to its acquisition of Tango Telecom, an Ireland-based company providing convergent charging and intelligent messaging.

Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland

Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (non-practising)

Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in the State of New York, USA (non-practising)

The University of Chicago Law School, USA, LL.M

University College Dublin (First Class Honours), Bachelor of Business and Law (BBL)