Legal correspondence and sworn affidavits reveal the bitter shareholder battle at Irish food company Strong Roots. Founder Sam Dennigan claims US private equity backers are trying to engineer a forced sale. The fund says it is merely protecting their investment.
Increasingly conscious Irish consumers have attracted Vienna-based Refurbed here, but Brexit also had a role to play, according to its CEO and co-founder Kilian Kaminski.
Beef baron Larry Goodman’s investment vehicle Vevan is believed to have just bought 1 per cent of Providence, the Irish oil explorer.
Yet another case over rents has been lodged with the High Court. The latest battle involves the German financial giant Deutsche Bank and one of Britain’s richest men.
Irish Life has been frequently cited as a bidder for stockbroking firm Davy. But it is more concerned with launching a joint venture with AIB, the new owner of rival Goodbody, and growing its existing business.
After offices and apartments, the firehose of global capital is now pointed at Irish social housing. Who are the new owners, and what is it going to do to the Irish property market?
ECI Energy was spun out of an established family business on the northside of Dublin. Acutrace is a six-year-old prop-tech company tackling inefficiencies in commercial buildings. The two firms have just tied the knot.
In the six years since it was founded in Dublin by Sam Dennigan, plant based frozen food manufacturer Strong Roots has grown into a multi-million euro business. Now private equity investors have brought a court action claiming a €2.7m shortfall in profit targets for 2020.
Irish brass-plate companies have become a central plank in the structures used by vulture funds to swoop in on Mediterranean distressed debt. An investigation into Cerberus reveals how this extends to dealings in tens of thousands of foreclosed properties.
Fine Gael’s Noel Rock was just 32 when he lost his seat – and his job – at the last election. He regrouped and has just launched a new consulting business. He has already snapped up his first five clients.
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