It is the boardroom of IBI Corporate Finance, and seated on either side of a fine long wooden table are Tom Godfrey, the chief executive of the corporate advisory firm, and Richard Madden, the UK chief executive of DC Advisory. It is four hours after IBI announced that it was being acquired by DC Advisory, the corporate finance arm of Daiwa Securities Group Inc, a deal that had been worked on discreetly for many months. Founded in 1966, IBI is a storied firm in Irish corporate life that has gone through various iterations over the decades. It was until 2017…

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