Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions

• On the pending $80 billion all-share combination between Aon plc and Willis Towers Watson.
• Independent News & Media Plc on its recommended €145 million public takeover by Mediahuis NV.
• IFG Group plc in its €206 million recommended public takeover by Epiris LLP.
• CGI Inc on its public takeover of SCISYS Group plc.
• FEXCO and Goodbody on the proposed acquisition of Goodbody Stockbrokers by a Chinese consortium led by the Zhongze Group.
• Aon plc on its re-domiciliation from the UK to Ireland and the listing of the new Irish holding company on the NYSE.
• Bauer Media Group on its separate acquisitions of Cork's Red FM 104-106, iRadio, Media Central and Beat 102-103.
• Cimpress on its re-domiciliation from the Netherlands to Ireland and the listing of the new Irish holding company on Nasdaq.
• STERIS, a leading provider of infection prevention and other procedural products and services, on its re-domiciliation from the UK to Ireland and the listing of the new Irish holding company, STERIS plc, on the NYSE.
• Irving Oil on its acquisition of the Whitegate Refinery and, subsequently, Top Oil/Tedcastles.
• AMP Capital, as investment manager of The Ireland Infrastructure Fund, on its acquisition of enet, Ireland’s largest fibre optic provider.
• Insight Venture Capital on investments in AMCS, the world’s leading supplier of integrated software for the waste collection and recycling industry, and Fenergo.
• Weatherford International plc, the Irish registered, NYSE listed parent of the Weatherford group of companies, on one of the largest and most complex cross-border corporate restructurings of 2019.
• Vermillion Energy Inc on its acquisition (valued at over €1 billion), together with a Canadian pension fund, of the Corrib gas project.
• Gurnet Point Capital, a $2 billion healthcare investment fund, on its €209 million public takeover of Innocoll Holdings plc, a Nasdaq listed global pharmaceutical and medical device company.    
• Macquarie Asset Management in relation to its agreement to acquire the Beacon Hospital in Dublin, subject to customary regulatory approvals. 

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"We moved our business from a smaller local firm to Matheson because we wanted greater confidence in our external counsel’s willingness and ability to keep the transaction on our desired timeline. Matheson consistently delivered on their promises thereby compelling other parties to stick to their agreed schedules. Matheson instilled confidence not just in our internal stakeholders but in all parties to the transaction that everything was being managed professionally and expediently."
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“Extremely diligent execution, highly flexible versus the moving requirements of the transaction. They were highly commercial and provided value added feedback throughout the negotiation with numerous potential investors and then ultimately with the sole successful investing counter party.”
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