Robert
Maloney Derham

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

• Macquarie Asset Management in relation to its acquisition of the Beacon Hospital in Dublin, one of Ireland’s largest private healthcare providers.
• Macquarie Asset Management in relation to its acquisition of Beauparc Utilities, the leading Irish and UK recycling and processing led waste-to-resource business.
• Graham Partners, a private investment firm targeting advanced manufacturing companies, on its acquisition of Smithstown Light Engineering, a medical device manufacturer specialising in highly engineered, machined components and sub-assemblies for orthopedic, endoscopic, vascular and neurological surgical application.
• Waystone Group, a leading provider of institutional governance, risk, and compliance services to the asset management industry on the completion of an investment by Montagu, a leading private equity firm, and Hg, a leading global software and services investor, who will join as a strategic investor and joint shareholder.
• S2G Ventures, a multi-stage investment firm, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, an industry led specialist investor, Morgan Stanley’s 1GT Fund and an affiliate of the Crown family’s CC Industries Inc. on their combined €115million investment in XOCEAN, a leading provider of data collection solutions for environmental and ocean data.
• Goldman Sachs on the sale of Blanchardstown Centre, one of Ireland’s leading shopping destinations, to Strategic Value Partners, LLC (the largest real estate deal of the year in 2024).
• Eagle Street Partners and Arrow Global on the acquisition of The Square Shopping Centre, Tallaght, Dublin.
• BlackRock, global investment manager, on the sale of Jacobs Inn Dublin to Spanish investment manager, Azora.
• lead investors QED Investors, Left Lane Capital and DST Global in relation to their participation in the $150m Series B fundraise for Wayflyer.
• Waystone Group (a Montagu portfolio company) on its acquisition of Centaur Group, an established global fund administration and fiduciary services provider headquartered in Ireland.
• Waterland Private Equity in relation to its investment in MTM Engineering, an Irish headquartered specialist data centre cable expert providing turn-key cable installation and termination services.
• Waterland Private Equity 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.
• Waterland Private Equity 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bregal Milestone LP in connection with its $70 million investment in Teamwork, a leading global Project Management SaaS solution focused company.
• 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.
• 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.
• Left Lane Capital, in relation to their lead role in the Wayflyer $76 million Series A raise.
• 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

Robert has recently advised:

• Authentic Brands Group LLC, a global brand develpoment and marketing company, in relaiton to its $1.2 billion agreement to acquire the Champion apparel brand and business (awarded mid-market deal of the year in 2024 by Finance Dublin).
  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.
• Fanatics Betting and Gaming (a subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc.), on its acquisition of the U.S. operations of Australian sports betting company, PointsBet.
• 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.
• the largest selling shareholder in Irish alarm monitoring company HomeSecure on the sale of the business to PhoneWatch.
• the shareholders of Pathfinder, an Irish consulting group, in connection with the acquisition of the company by the global management consulting firm Sia Partners.
• 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.
• 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)