Arthur Cox

Corporate and M&A.

Geoff has served as our Managing Partner since 2019. Prior to his current role, he served as Co-Head of our Corporate/ M&A Group specialising in mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory work for leading corporates. 

He has transactional experience across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus in recent years on the healthcare / pharma and financial services sectors. He has advised on many of the largest and most high profile M&A deals in Irish corporate history and is repeatedly recognised as one of the country’s leading corporate lawyers by leading independent publications, including Chambers Global/Europe, The Legal 500, IFLR and Who’s Who Legal. Previously, Geoff practised in the Corporate Finance Group of a leading New York firm.

Key highlights include advising:

• on many of the largest/ most significant takeovers of Irish quoted companies including AbbVie/ Allergan, IAG/ Aer Lingus, Medtronic/ Covidien, Sumitomo/ Fyffes and Actavis/ Warner Chilcott
• a wide range of participants in distressed M&A matters, most particularly market-leading work on NPL portfolios for both selling financial institutions and private equity purchasers
• leading Irish corporates and their boards on complex corporate governance and strategic shareholder issues, particularly takeover defence and activist shareholder issues

Law Society of Ireland

MLitt, 1998, Trinity College, Dublin; BCL, 1996, University College, Cork; Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 2001; Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales (non-practising), 2001; Admitted as an Attorney and Counsellor at Law in New York, 2001.