Feargal McCormack built one of the largest accountancy firms in the North from the ground up, before selling it to private equity. He talks about his journey, how Brexit impacted Anglo-Irish relations and maintaining “work-life harmony”.
Grant Thornton Ireland’s advisory and tax business is being acquired by its PE-backed US counterpart. The deal follows months of behind-the-scenes negotiations and comes after the firm examined several other options with Deutsche Bank.
Today, the games services firm closed its acquisition by EQT. In the last few months, it has been shedding jobs in some markets to cut costs but unions in Italy are putting up a fight.
The Wicklow-headquartered company has made its fourth acquisition in the past three years in the form of Bristol-based RHC Lifting.
The London firm has around £11bn in assets under management. Partner Malcolm Coffin and assistant director David Collins talk about the private-equity "snowball effect" taking hold in Ireland.
Deloitte is now the largest professional services network in the world and one of the big-four firms in Ireland. Managing partner Harry Goddard talks about its record financial performance, its future strategy and investing in Ireland.
The co-founder of the private equity house, Ross Finegan, discusses the "difficult situation" facing the UK and hails Ireland's rise as a place to do business.
Irish-headquartered cybersecurity firm Integrity360 has bought its fourth business since being backed by private equity firm August Equity. Its executive chair Ian Brown reveals what is next.
Dubliner Martin Scott spent a decade working with the European arm of a US private equity business, The Riverside Company. Now he chairs CreditLogic, an Irish fintech start-up that aims to transform the mortgage market.
Dutch firm Coolworld has bought the Meath-based business four years after Renatus pumped money into the company run by brothers John and Patrick Tyrrell.
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