Expertise
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Matheson acts for lenders and borrowers on a wide range of transactions involving the provision of debt and other forms of finance to Irish corporate and other borrowers. We regularly work on syndicated and bilateral credit facilities involving many of Ireland’s largest corporate borrowers as well as a variety of State entities and sponsors and have extensive experience of working with Loan Market Association documents. Matheson is also considered to be a market leading firm in relation to leveraged finance transactions of all kinds including, in particular, financing transactions involving private equity, mergers and acquisitions and similar transactions.
We understand that optimal outcomes for our clients in these transactions require expertise across other disciplines and we leverage the expertise provided by our tax, property, corporate and regulatory teams to achieve the best solutions for our clients.
Our Team
- Alma Campion
- Paul Carroll
- Muireann Hernon
- Alan Keating
- Maireadh Dale
- Patrick Molloy
- David O'Mahony
- Lisa Tait
Representative transactions include:
- Advising lending syndicates and arrangers on a large number of senior syndicated credit facilities to Irish corporates including many ISEQ 20 companies and other “large corporate” borrowers.
- Advising on the provision of senior secured leveraged facilities for management and leveraged buy-outs, including listed company acquisitions.
- Advising Smurfit Kappa on the merger with WestRock Company, including financing.
- Advising a syndicate of lenders on the refinancing of up to €700m to I-RES.
- Advising on the provision of revolving credit facilities to Ryanair plc.
- Advising a syndicate of lenders on the €600m refinancing of Dalata Hotel Group.
- Advising a lender on the provision of revolving credit facilties to Orix Aviation.