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Matheson has announced the 2023 launch of the Tim Scanlon Corporate Law Bursary, which honours late Matheson partner and former chairperson Tim Scanlon. Now in its second year, the bursary is delivered as part of Matheson's impactful business programme and is open to undergraduate and postgraduate l

Matheson partners Nicola Dunleavy and April McClements examine upcoming changes to third-party funding of international arbitration. Third-party funding of international commercial arbitration in Ireland was put in question following Supreme Court judgments that third-party funding of Irish court pr

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Horizon Therapeutics plcs, a global biotechnology company headquartered in Dublin, is to be acquired by Amgen Inc. for an enterprise value of $28.3 billion.

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Ireland’s electricity grid operator EirGrid and its French counterpart Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) have signed key technical and financial agreements for the C

Matheson LLP has been named as Ireland's Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer European Awards 2022. The prestigious annual awards, which were presented at a ceremony in London last night, recognise and celebrate excellence across the European legal market, and this year attracted entries from over 120

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Bauer Media Group, one of the world's largest privately-owned media businesses with assets worldwide, has agreed to acquire Cork's Red FM 104-106.

Matheson partners Kate McKenna and Davinia Brennan explain coming changes to Ireland's data retention regime. New Irish data retention laws governing the retention and access of electronic communications data are in the pipeline following two fresh data retention judgments from the Court of Justice

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Irish PPE specialist MJ Scannell has been acquired by Groupe RG, a major player in the distribution of PPE in France.

Matheson has announced the 2022 launch of its Cara Scholarship, the firm's diversity and inclusion scholarship delivered in partnership with Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Named in honour of late Matheson partner Cara O'Hagan and delivered as part of Matheson's impactful business programme, the schol

Matheson LLP has relocated its London office to larger premises to accommodate a growing team of lawyers. The firm's 15-strong London operation, helmed by partner Sharon Daly, is now based on the seventh floor of the Octagon Point building beside St Paul's Cathedral, not far from Matheson's previous

Less than half of organisations actively considered diversity and inclusion (D&I) when designing their hybrid working policies, with the real impact of hybrid working on D&I in the workplace set to take a number of years to fully understand, a survey by Matheson suggests. The law firm survey

Matheson LLP has been ranked as the top Irish law firm by deal volume for the first three quarters of 2022. The firm today emerged on top of rankings published by research firm Refinitiv, which follows a similar ranking by Mergermarket last week.

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Global law firm DLA Piper has advised global sports, entertainment and betting operator PlayUp on a business combination agreement with IG Acquisition Corp (IGAC), which will result in PlayUp listi

Matheson LLP has again been ranked as the number one Irish legal advisor for corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by deal count. The report for the first three quarters of 2022, by Mergermarket, shows that Matheson acted on 29 transactions in the period, more than any other law firm in

A significant proportion of Irish business leaders feel they can do more to prepare their organisation for a serious cyber incident, while few know about coming regulatory changes at an EU level, a survey conducted by Matheson suggests. The law firm surveyed attendees at its recent cyber security an