Key Contact: Eoghan Doyle – Partner
Leading law firm Philip Lee LLP with our HQ in Dublin and corporate offices in London and San Francisco, has announced that we plan to double the size of our corporate and M&A team over the next three years – recruitment has already commenced. In addition, partner Eoghan Doyle has been appointed the new head of corporate and M&A, succeeding outgoing department head Andreas McConnell, a senior partner at the firm for the past fifteen years who remains centrally involved in the business.
We have experienced massive growth in recent years and currently have 10 M&A partners and a total team of 25 in corporate. Over the next number of years, we plan to double that to 50 and build on the momentum of the Irish M&A market and client demand for experienced and specialist transaction teams.
As a partner for the past nine years, Eoghan Doyle has worked alongside Andreas McConnell under whose leadership. Our corporate team has become one of the largest and most active in the country, specialising in M&A, private equity, and corporate transactions.
Some of our most notable recent deals include:
- Advised European Energy, an international and Danish headquartered energy company, and a new entrant to the Irish energy market (based in Cork), on a series of renewable energy deals in Ireland.
- Advising Apleona on multiple acquisitions in the facility management sector.
- Advising Ireland’s leading utility scale solar & BESS developer and IPP, Power Capital Renewable Energy on a series of M&A and funding transactions.
- Advised the senior management team of Premier Lotteries Ireland DAC in its €350m trade sale to La Francaise Des Jeux S.A.
- Advised Mainstream Renewable Power on the €1bn sale of a majority equity stake in the company to Norway-based renewable energy investment company.
Eoghan Doyle is co-author of one of the most watched and highly regarded M&A reports of the year, the bi-annual Philip Lee M&A Insights Guide in association with Experian.
He said: We have a philosophy of “Leading the Way, by building expert teams to deliver for our valued clients. Through the leadership of our partners, our teams think creatively and work collaboratively, with our clients at the core of everything we do. We are looking forward to continuing to invest in, and expand, our talent offering in corporate and M&A.
The Philip Lee M&A team was ranked #1 M&A legal advisor in 2023, listed in the Renatus M&A Newsletters 2023 and ranked #2 M&A legal advisor in the Experian Market IQ Report, Q1, 2024.
Founded in 1993, Philip Lee is one of Ireland’s fastest growing commercial law firms with a total staff of 180, including 40 partners and 40 lawyers. It is the sole Irish member of the award-winning Multilaw international network of independent law firms throughout the globe. Clients include: Netflix, Disney, Sky, Microsoft, European Energy, Power Capital Renewable Energy, Groupe RG, Apleona, Finch Capital , AIB, Element Pictures, Sky, Sisk, Data Protection Commission, EIRGRID, IDA, HSE, Sport Ireland and Future Energy.
