M&A

Mergers and acquisitions activity in Northern Ireland last year rose by 38 per cent to 238 deals, the second largest annual total on Experian record, the business adviser's latest report shows. Belfast law firm Tughans advised on 73 qualifying deals to head up the legal volume table in 2021, wi

A&L Goodbody has topped the M&A league tables for 2021 in terms of volume and value of deals, according to new figures. The law firm advised on 77 deals worth €48.2 billion in a bumper year that saw a record 682 deals worth €88.3 billion overall.

A&L Goodbody (ALG) has been ranked as Northern Ireland's top legal adviser by both value and volume of total M&A deals in 2021 so far. According to the latest report from global information services company Experian, ALG's Belfast office acted on 46 deals worth over £1.1 billion in the

M&A activity in Ireland reached a record high in the first six months of 2021, according to a new report published by law firm William Fry in association with Mergermarket. There were 106 deals recorded in the first half of the year, a 33 per cent rise on the same period in 2020 and the most of

The period of "extreme uncertainty" in the Irish M&A market is drawing to a close, William Fry has said following a report showing the total value of Irish deals increased by 14 per cent to €9.1 billion last year in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. The law firm today published its M&A Re

Commercial law firm Tughans has topped the Experian M&A and Real Estate Advisor League Table by deal count for a sixth year in a row. Of the 168 deals involving a Northern Ireland firm in 2020, Tughans advised on 49 of them – nearly a third.

Arthur Cox has advised on 33 deals worth €1.7 billion in the year to date, more than any other Irish law firm by volume or value. The latest Experian M&A Review reports that deal-making in Ireland has "proved resilient in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic" with 325 deals over the year to da

The volume and value of deals in Northern Ireland have dropped to their lowest recorded level since 2013, according to a new report. After years of strong growth, there have been just 91 transactions worth £234 million involving a Northern Ireland company so far this year, the latest Experian

The Lawyer has produced a special report on changes to the M&A landscape in Ireland in 2020. "Like every M&A market globally, the areas in which deal activity in Ireland has been concentrated during the first half of 2020 has, to a large extent, been driven by the impact of Covid-19 on busin

There is reason to be "cautiously optimistic" about a rise in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the second half of 2020, a senior corporate lawyer has said. Stephen Keogh, head of corporate and M&A at William Fry, said 2020 is "likely to represent one of the lowest, if not the lowes

Commercial law firm Tughans remains the top M&A firm in Northern Ireland by deal count, according to the latest report from Experian Market IQ. There were just 58 transactions in Northern Ireland in the first half of 2020, a 65 per cent decline on the 65 during the same period last year, and Tug

A&L Goodbody has ranked as the top M&A firm in Ireland by deal count in the latest edition of Mergermarket's Global and Regional M&A Report. The firm advised on nine deals worth $568 million in the first half of 2020, closely followed by Matheson, which advised on nine deals worth $405 m

Dorit McCann, partner at Beauchamps, considers whether firms emerging from the COVID-19 crisis with access to financing can use the "failing firm defence" to justify acquisitions of competitive businesses. COVID-19 has turned our world upside down but, while it presents great challenges to many busi

Corporate law firm A&L Goodbody's Belfast office advised on deals worth £1.1 billion last year, greater in value than any other law firm in Northern Ireland for a sixth consecutive year. From 2014 to 2019, the Belfast office has advised on deals totalling over £6 billion, according t

Arthur Cox has topped the league table of Irish M&A legal advisers by both deal value and volume for 2019. The firm advised on 34 transactions valued at over $107 billion in US dollars, according to the Mergermarket report.