Financial Institutions M&A
Our dedicated Financial Institutions M&A Group sits within our broader Corporate and M&A team and brings together a group of highly skilled senior lawyers who collectively have decades of experience of advising on and executing complex and strategically important M&A and re-organisation projects for financial institutions across a range of sectors including:
We are consistently trusted by clients with lead counsel roles on disposals and acquisitions of regulated Irish financial institutions and business units. Our expertise includes traditional share sales and purchases, business transfers, court approved acquisition schemes and de-leveraging transactions.
We are also the go-to Irish firm for complex re-organisation and migration projects for financial institutions, with a proven track record of pioneering and executing novel and award-winning structures. Our experience includes domestic mergers, schemes of arrangement, re-domiciliation projects, cross-border mergers, conversions & divisions and Societas Europaea creations & migrations.
Our Financial Institutions M&A Group leverages our firm's full-service offering and effectively collaborates with our market-leading financial regulation, anti-trust and other specialist lawyers whose invaluable knowledge and experience enables us to tackle the many complex issues that can arise on these transactions.
Experience
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AIG/Corebridge
on the sale of its Irish health insurance MGA, Laya Healthcare, to AXA for €650m.
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Bank of Ireland
on its acquisition of the Davy wealth management and capital markets services platform.
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Irish lenders
including AIB, Bank of Ireland, IBRC, Rabobank, NAMA and Ulster Bank on multiple loan portfolio sale transactions.
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Zurich Insurance plc
on its ground-breaking cross-border conversion into a German stock corporation under the Mobility Directive.
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UBS
on post-acquisition cross border-mergers of Credit Suisse entities into UBS.
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Citibank
on the cross-border merger of Citibank International and Citibank Europe.