Buymie’s Devan Hughes: “Consumer businesses don’t come out of Ireland. It is really unheard of”

It is the last great Anglo legal battle, and it is set to begin today. At stake is tens of millions of euro, but why was the money borrowed, how was it lost, and what is the case all about.

William Hynes and Stephen Purcell started Future Analytics, an economics and planning consultancy in 2010. Ten years later the company employed 27 staff, and in October it was acquired by KPMG. They talk about building a business, and how Ireland can build infrastructure for its growing population.

Datalex is unable to say who its new shareholder is or when he or she bought in. But Carthy joins Dermot Desmond as a big backer of the company which has turned a corner and hiked its forecasts.

Assets including a high-profile property in south Co Dublin were at the centre of a multi-million legal battle between the state's bankruptcy trustee and businessman Alistair Tidey – until the dispute was settled out of court.

Sean O’Neill’s TWM has advised on a string of property deals since launching during the last crash. He believes Covid will drive the “hub and spoke” office model, and that some commercial properties will become residential. And, there might even be a miniboom.

Global recruitment giant Heidrick & Struggles has assessed the backgrounds of all ISEQ 20 CEOs to understand the skills and experiences that shaped their path to the top role. This is what they learned.

From 1,000 cases in 2019, High Court debt enforcement actions by banks and vulture funds fell to fewer than 200 last year. Who is still suing borrowers in the middle of a pandemic, who is not – and what is coming next?

Businessman Martin Keane hoped to redevelop the historic buildings into a Covent Garden style hotel and market for Dublin. As that vision fades, he is challenging Lord Iveagh's repossession of the premises claiming a 2006 agreement was meant to "box off" the Guinness family interest for good.

The aviation industry is expected to lose $38 billion in 2021, following a loss of $118 billion in 2020. KPMG partner Joe O’Mara is at the coalface, and he explains what impact the crisis has had on the sector and how it is going to come through it.

Covid-19 had a chilling effect on the High Court caseload last year although areas like planning and asylum law remained busy. The Currency has been number-crunching the data for some clues on what the crisis meant for the business of litigation.