Corporate reorganisations: Experience

  • A cross-border merger of Anima Asset Management (Ireland) into Anima Asset Management (Italy).
  • Acting for the examiner of Mallinckrodt plc - one of the largest restructurings that has ever looked to avail of examinership process in Ireland.
  • Airbnb on the establishment and expansion of its Irish group.
  • Analog Devices on its global restructuring following the acquisition of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
  • Analog Devices on the reorganisation of its Irish and international operations.
  • AXA/XL on cross-border mergers of AXA Art Versicherung AG (Germany) and AXA Corporate Solutions Assurance (France) into XL Insurance Company SE (Ireland).
  • Aviva plc on the reorganisation of its European insurance business under a single holding company to create a consolidated pan European SE legal structure.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch, CVC Capital Partners on the restructuring of the Celtic Roads Group.
  • Bank of Ireland on the internal merger of its private banking business as part of a group reorganisation.
  • Citibank on the court approved cross border merger of Citibank International and Citibank Europe.
  • General Electric on various corporate reorganisations and European branch structures.
  • Informatica on the restructuring of its international operations and the expansion of its Irish platform.
  • Nordic Aviation Capital on its corporate reorganisation pursuant to its US Chapter 11 filing.
  • PartnerRe on its conversion to a Societas Europaea and on a related $1.4bn capital reduction.
  • PTC Inc on landmark cross-border division of Dutch subsidiary into Ireland. This was the first instance of a cross-border division application reviewed and approved by the Irish Courts, a mechanism which was introduced by the European Union (Cross-Border Conversions, Mergers, and Divisions) Regulations 2023.
  • UBS on post-acquisition cross border-mergers of Credit Suisse entities into UBS.
  • Ulster Bank/RBS on a corporate separation and reorganisation of the Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland group.
  • Waypoint on the restructure of the European group under the US Chapter 11 process.
  • Zurich Insurance plc on its ground-breaking cross-border conversion into a German stock corporation under the Mobility Directive in 2023. This was the first ever outbound cross-border conversion of an Irish company and the first ever cross-border conversion of a regulated insurance company anywhere in Europe.