On February 1, 2018, lawyers at the Dublin corporate legal firm Matheson initiated a string of transactions by adding a new company to the roster of dozens they maintain on behalf of multinationals in Ireland. The company’s name was Symantec Technologies (Ireland) Ltd and it filed its first set of accounts last week for the period ending March 29, 2019. They reveal movements in intellectual property (IP) common to an increasing number of American-based technology corporations, with multi-billion-euro transactions continuing at pace since the Trump administration reformed the way profits derived from intangible assets around the world are taxed in…

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