Full coverage: Winthrop Engineering

While the Dublin engineering group took several years to find a buyer, its business expanded faster than anticipated. Its existing shareholders are being handsomely rewarded.

Winthrop Engineering has boomed along with Ireland’s data centre industry. Now its founder, Barry English, has started the process of selling the business. The Currency has obtained the pitchbook, which reveals its financial forecasts, business pipeline and its potential valuation.

Faced with bankruptcy, he handed over a lucrative Middle Eastern company to Winthrop Engineering founder Barry English in a sham deal and lost millions. Now the High Court has to decide if English owes HKR architect Jerry Ryan a salary.