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“This is managed equity. It’s not passive”: Quintas Capital wants to back Irish SMEs

July 11, 2024 5:43 am Published by Tom Lyons

Kevin 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 pm Published by Michael Cogley

The 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 pm Published by Francesca Comyn

It 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 am Published by Ian Kehoe

What 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 am Published by Alice Chambers

Beyoncé, 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 pm Published by Michael Cogley

The 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 pm Published by Michael Cogley

Last 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