Full coverage: Private equity

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.

Having acquired a majority stake in Grant Thornton’s US business, Dublin is a next logical step for New Mountain Capital. However, any transaction involving the firm’s Irish operation will be complex.

The data for the first six months of the year offers a deep insight into the M&A and fundraising climate in Ireland, identifying the sectors that are being chased by domestic and international money.

The private equity firm backed the Dublin-based engineering contractor Eastland Engineering Supplies five years ago and has now sold it to US player Vallen.