What do you do when you are poised to become one of the country’s richest people? In the case of Tommy Kelly, the answer was to implement a €73 million restructuring of his private holding companies. Last March, as Kelly was preparing to sell his 50 per cent in the e-commerce company eShopWorld, the Dublin businessman pulled the trigger on a string of corporate manoeuvres to ensure he could smoothly deploy his wealth over the coming years. Kelly held his stake in eShopWorld, since rebranded as EWS, through a company called Eidervale. At the end of December 2019, this company…

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