Designing Alfrank 3.0: “The last 40 years must count for something”

Experienced business investor Kevin MacSweeny has just bought a 20% stake in Kevin Canning's Quintas Capital. As it launches a new equity investment division for SMEs, Canning and MacSweeny talk strategy, cheque sizes and deal pipelines.

Grant Thornton's UK arm is considering taking on PE investment, a move that has become familiar in the US. Could its Irish business also come into play?

Former U2 accountant Ossie Kilkenny is being sued by personal finance guru John Lowe, better known as the 'money doctor'. The case is over an alleged debt related to an investment in a film and TV studio hub in Limerick.

EQuita Group, the consultancy and training firm led by Margaret Considine, works with blue-chip businesses in Ireland and abroad. Here, Considine talks through examples of her work with clients, offers practical advice on how businesses can transition and explains how to improve employee engagement.

A week after Taylor Swift wore her gloves, the Irish designer Paula Rowan talks celebrity endorsements, deals with luxury department stores and the importance of the weather going in her favour.

The manufacturers of flying taxis — otherwise known as eVTOLs — are plotting flights as soon as 2026. Ireland's aviation leasing sector will play a key role in their potential success.

The mega-deal will add two new entrants to Ireland's rich list in the form of Mark and Lindy O'Hare who owned 80% of Preqin.

As it exited Russia, Ingka Group was set to lose multi-hundred-million-euro assets in the form of intercompany loans advanced out of Dublin. Then it cut a deal, only to find itself before a Moscow court.

A British private equity firm is paying £305 million for Northern Ireland’s biggest private hospital group. It is a big acquisition, and its new owners are expected to buy more.

Ireland chaired the informal group of digitally like-minded EU member states for six months and one of its findings on tech policy is gathering more steam in Europe.