After more than three decades at the helm of Softco, Susan Spence and her brother Jim Coffey sold their software firm for over €100 million. Spence reflects on the strategy, succession planning, and timing that made the deal possible.
After merger talks between partners in Eversheds Sutherland Ireland and William Fry collapsed last week, what happens next has become very unclear. Factions have emerged.
It is the latest in a string of receiverships and insolvencies to hit McNamara companies this year.
The sale of the utility has been start-stop for years. It is finally progressing to accepting initial bids on what will likely be the biggest deal of the year.
A vindicated and victorious Gerry Adams has said his nine-year defamation battle was about "putting manners" on the BBC. The jury found the broadcaster had not acted in good faith and awarded the former Sinn Féin leader €100,000.
The overrun and impairments from a second IT project were only brought to an Oireachtas committee's attention by RTÉ under direct questioning. While this lost less money than another failed upgrade and was ultimately fixed, the Department of Media had omitted it from public documents and earlier questioning.
Ireland's accountancy sector has become synonymous with private equity in recent years. Now a number PE-backed UK firms with Irish presences are reportedly exploring a sale as the industry enters a new phase.
Wolters Kluwer is buying the Irish legal software company to give it leg-up in generative AI. Brightflag’s trajectory over the last decade is key to understanding how the deal came to be.
Within 30 minutes of news of the ending of merging talks being announced, Eversheds Sutherland International said its Dublin office "is to be led by partner Pamela O’Neill".
Counsel for sellers the Thomson Moores claimed this morning that John Magnier's account of what happened on the night he says a deal was struck for a 750-acre estate “doesn't hold water”.
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