Board minutes, memos and legal filings reveal the internal rancour enveloping Swrve, an Irish software firm that raised $125m from Isif, Atlantic Bridge and others. A bitter dispute has now erupted over a deal to save the firm.
The offshoot of US private equity giant Cerberus has launched a High Court debt action against the brothers behind the upmarket Irish footwear brand.
Rather than fight, the Criminal Assets Bureau's new chief says that most of its targets simply “walk away”. Ireland's top financial cop sets out his agenda.
Four years ago, Graeme Beere sold the Irish franchise for Gourmet Burger Kitchen. Now, the Irish entrepreneur behind Abrakebabra and the Bagel Factory is in talks to buy back the business. What is the strategy behind the move?
The global online recruitment firm has been beefing up its corporate structures in Ireland. While US multinationals have rushed intangible assets here to minimise tax exposure at home, Indeed’s Tokyo-listed parent has been operating differently.
Amid mounting losses and falling market share, the company is now looking at a variety of options for its loss-making Irish subsidiary, including a formal restructuring through the appointment of an examiner.
As the private hospitals negotiate with government over Covid capacity, we go inside the sector. Mapping the sector through 13 datasets, we examine what the private hospitals are worth, how they make their money, and their debt burdens.
Debt collector turned vulture fund Cabot Financial has been growing its Mediterranean business out of Dublin, illustrating the wider trend among US distressed debt investors to use Ireland as a base for European portfolio securitisation.
Barry Lunn has worked with defence contractors, space agencies, and multinationals – he even had a fringe role in a botched FBI spy raid. Having sold his last company for a rumoured $50m, the Limerick man now wants to use radar to stop road deaths.
For the past three weeks, four pubs have taken on FBD Insurance in a High Court test case of enormous consequence. They are challenging the insurer's refusal to pay out on claims arising from the pandemic. Millions of euro, and livelihoods, are at stake.
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