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When you start investigating Rosneft’s Irish operations, you discover a complicated network of entities stretching from the British Virgin Islands to Cyprus to Hong Kong. This is how Ireland became a country of choice for the Russian oil giant.
We are raising money for our child protection software business. And we are looking at bolt-on acquisitions for our matchmaking company. When it comes to valuations, we have discovered they are two very different beasts.
Loanitt aims to make it easier for mortgage holders to access the best deals. Having just secured an open banking licence, it has now signed a major deal with mobile phone giant Three.
Businessman Pat Ryan was part of the development consortium that bought the arts centre in 2003 for €4.2m. He is suing the Colony Capital fund that snapped up the consortium's Nama debts claiming it induced his former partners to break their agreements with him.
Team engagement and action platform PepTalk has closed a €1.2m seed round. However, with workplace trends moving in its favour, co-founder James Brogan says a Series A is now on the horizon to fuel expansion in the UK, Scandinavia and then the US.
The farmer-owned co-op is regaining full control of Glanbia’s Irish operations in a €300m deal. This will now be largely funded by debt secured on the group’s listed shares, reducing the need to sell under-valued stock.
A small Dublin food wholesaler is being sued by a US company in the Commercial Court for allegedly passing off its “internationally renowned" yam flour product. The action highlights the international nature of commercial litigation - and Ireland's place within it.
Legislation proposing a new media regulator and a new funding channel from streaming giants to Irish filmmakers is on the home stretch. Producers can’t wait for the money and, more importantly, the commissions expected out of it.
The Mater Hospital Group says the HSE took over “top drawer” hospitals for an undetermined period of time at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Servicing intercompany interest payments was built into the deal, it has claimed in court.
The director of Let It Be talks about why Get Back brought happy memories, his relationship with the man who might have been his father and his time swimming at the Forty Foot.
The financial crisis and its fall-out exposed the egregious securitisation of high-risk home loans and the exploitation of Irish tax loopholes by global vulture funds. A recent deal unveiled by The Currency last week brings back the memories.
Ireland’s public sector unions are gearing up to renegotiate their pay agreement. In the end, the state will pay more, workers will work about the same, and taxes will have to be found to pay for it all. Then, workers in loads of other sectors will ask for more too.
Mary Lou McDonald talks about a “constipated” civil service. Based on my decade on the inside, I think we could help reform it by ending permanent tenure, prioritising outside appointments for delivery roles and being flexible on remuneration. But would the permanent government allow this to happen?
A number of GAA players are considering walking away from the sport because of the joylessness of the games during lockdowns. Interventions might be necessary again but they make it harder to enjoy a sport that is a hobby.
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