Acted for Grant Thornton on the sale of its media business. Saffery Champness has acquired Grant Thornton Ireland’s Media & Entertainment Practice, based in Dublin. Under the deal, the team of 11 people, have joined Saffery Champness at their new Irish office located in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Further information available here. Corporate Partner Eoghan […]

Acted for Cantor Fitzgerald on its recent investment into Elgin Energy. Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland completed a £4 million secured loan note fundraise for Elgin Energy, a developer of solar PV projects across the UK and Ireland. Funds will be used for the development of a number of pre-selected UK solar development projects. More information available […]

Advising Finboot on investment from global energy giant Repsol. Finboot is a dynamic company that develops and delivers innovative, enterprise grade SaaS products based on blockchain infrastructure.  The company secured an investment from global energy giant Repsol as part of its fundraise efforts. The legal advice to Finboot was led from the London office of […]

Acting for Veeqo in securing a £3.3million growth investment from Octupus Investments. Octopus is one of the most well-regarded investment firms in London. The funding makes Veeqo the first Welsh company to raise an investment of this size. This latest round of fundraising will be used to further Veeqo’s dominant position in the UK market, […]

Philip Lee acted for Midland Tyres on its sale to Valsyn. Midland Tyres has been in operation for over 30 years and operates 18 vehicles providing 24-hour breakdown assistance covering the island of Ireland. Valsyn agreed a deal to acquire 100% of the shares in Midland Tyres.

The firm acted for medtech company Incereb Limited on its sale to Lifelines Neurodiagnostic Systems. The Lifelines group of companies brings together products and services from around the globe, to advance its mission of changing lives through neurodiagnostic innovation. Lifelines has design and manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and distributes products and services […]

Acted as lead legal advisors to Irish pharma company, Sublimity Therapeutics Holdco Limited (formerly Sigmoid Pharma Limited) in the US$64m investment by a consortium of international investment funds. The corporate team (Andreas McConnell leading) acted as lead legal advisors to Irish pharma company, Sublimity Therapeutics Holdco Limited (formerly Sigmoid Pharma Limited) in the US$64m investment […]

Acting in the trade sale of an 80% stake in Johnston Logistics.  Global logistics firm Dachser recently acquired an 80% stake in leading logistics provider Johnston Logistics. Philip Lee acted for Johnston Logistics in the trade sale. Founded in 1979 by brothers Albert and Ivan Johnston, Johnston Logistics is a significant force in the Irish […]

Advised the Health Service Executive on the grant of planning approval for the new National Maternity Hospital.   Philip Lee advised the HSE on the grant of planning approval for the new National Maternity Hospital on the St Vincent’s University Hospital campus at Elm Park. The hospital is the flagship project of the National Maternity […]

Advised Ironshore International/Pembroke, in connection with the acquisition of Eir.   Philip Lee advised Ironshore International/Pembroke, the W&I insurance underwriters in London, in connection with certain aspects of the acquisition of two-thirds of the telecoms operator Eir to NJJ Capital. The deal valued Eir at circa EUR3.5 billion.