KPMG reveals eight finalists for Irish leg of Global Tech Innovator 2022
May 24, 2022 11:00 amEight of Ireland’s most cutting-edge technology companies have been selected to compete for one placement in the KPMG Global Tech... View Article
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The new face of private equity: “Almost half of our team have owned or run businesses”
May 24, 2022 5:22 amAt the end of last week, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission cleared the acquisition of Fastway Couriers by London-based... View Article
Unpicking XS Direct: The €80m IPO candidate that left behind a €25m deficit
May 24, 2022 5:05 amInsurance can be a notoriously fickle business. Just ask Jay Bourke. Earlier this year, Bourke, a bar and restaurant entrepreneur,... View Article
France is a booming unicorn factory. Should Ireland be trying to emulate its success?
May 23, 2022 5:17 amIn a recent speech to the Institute of International and European Affairs, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar road-tested his new industrial and... View Article
Intellectual property, liquidations and tax: The Facebook double Irish subsidiary that refuses to die
May 23, 2022 5:08 amIn November 2020, The Currency was first to reveal that Facebook had pulled the trigger on the liquidation of its... View Article
Interrogating Irefs, unpicking tax schemes, and unravelling Siteserv: Rewinding the week that was
May 22, 2022 5:51 amTen days ago, I made my way to Dublin Castle to meet with Niall Cody, the country’s top tax official. The... View Article
Unravelling Siteserv – the full three-part series
May 21, 2022 8:00 pmPart 1 – The rise, fall and sale of a boomtime business This is a story about money. It is... View Article
Unravelling Siteserv: Part 3 – Good faith, misleading information and the seven-year fallout of a single deal
May 21, 2022 5:15 amThere has been an overarching theme to this story; time and again information was withheld from IBRC over the sale... View Article
This is not an exit: 20 years on, why there are no lessons to be learned from Saipan
May 21, 2022 5:10 amOn a June night in 2001, Peter Reid, then the Sunderland manager, found himself in Lillie’s Bordello in Dublin along... View Article
Davy bond sale a “great deal” for Kearney, court hears
May 20, 2022 4:32 pmThe €5.3 million sale of an Anglo bond to a consortium of Davy staff members in 2014 was a “great... View Article
