Sale of EES marks a healthy exit for MML Capital Partners
July 11, 2024 5:54 pmIrish supply chain operations firm Eastland Engineering Supplies (EES), which had more than €80 million in revenue last year, has... View Article
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“This is managed equity. It’s not passive”: Quintas Capital wants to back Irish SMEs
July 11, 2024 5:43 amKevin MacSweeny arrived early for lunch in 5 Points, a well-known New York-style bagel cafe in Cork. It was after... View Article
Private equity has marched into the US and UK accountancy sector. Could the next stop be Grant Thornton in Ireland?
July 10, 2024 7:30 pmThe trend of accountancy firms taking on private equity investment and breaking from the traditional partner ownership model has gathered... View Article
Ossie Kilkenny, the money doctor and the fallout from Troy Studios
July 10, 2024 1:56 pmIt was a momentous project — to turn a disused Dell factory in a Limerick industrial estate into a vast... View Article
“I used to sell time. Then I sold days. Now I sell value”: Five key lessons from EQuita’s Margaret Considine
July 10, 2024 5:40 amWhat do Google, Novartis, the NTMA, Glanbia, AIB, Philip Morris, the Central Bank, Walls and Sodexo all have in common?... View Article
“In a business as niche as mine, you don’t really want to spiral out of control overnight”
July 10, 2024 5:36 amBeyoncé, Cher, Gaga… for the mononymous women of culture and style, there is one go-to glove-maker. Recently, singer Taylor Swift... View Article
‘Why choose between cheese and dessert?’: How lessors are preparing for flying taxis
July 9, 2024 7:25 pmThe idea of flying taxis, known within the aviation industry as electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOLs), has seemed... View Article
The Irish connections behind BlackRock’s €2.9bn acquisition of UK private markets platform Preqin
July 9, 2024 2:16 pmLast week, the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock splurged £2.5 billion (€2.95 billion) on London-based financial intelligence platform Preqin in... View Article
How Gazprombank (nearly) filled a €750m hole in the Irish balance sheet of Ikea’s retail arm
July 9, 2024 5:20 amWhen full-scale war broke out in Ukraine more than two years ago, the global network of companies behind Ikea stores... View Article
The sale of a Northern hospital group will gross its founders £100m each – but they are also reinvesting
July 9, 2024 5:07 amThe co-founder of Northern Ireland’s biggest private hospital group is to become chair of the business following its sale this... View Article
