A&L Goodbody Northern Ireland LLP

• Corporate and M&A
• Commercial Contracts

Partner

David Rowan is Head of A&L Goodbody's Corporate and M&A group in Belfast.  David is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer with a transactional practice focusing on public and private mergers and acquisitions, leveraged and management buyouts, group reorganisations, strategic investments, venture capital investments, joint ventures/partnerships and commercial contracts.  He has acted for businesses in a variety of sectors including insurance, media, financial services, food production, investment funds, healthcare, retail and IT.  Prior to joining A&L Goodbody David worked in the London office of a leading US law firm and he is a qualified solicitor in Northern Ireland and in England and Wales.
Experience Advising:

• Prestige Insurance on its acquisition of Insure NI/ Autoline
• Shareholders of Camperco Group on its sale to Apollo Tourism & Leisure
• Shareholders of Foodco NI on its sale to Henderson Foodservice
• Jose Cuervo on its acquisition of The Old Bushmills Distillery Company
• EESL Energy Pro Assets on its acquisition of Edina Power Services Limited
• Crown Laboratories on its acquisition of Vita Liberata
• The Golf Channel (a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation) on its acquisition of BRS Systems
• Hasting Funds Management on its acquisition of Phoenix Natural Gas
• H&T Bellas on the disposal of its business to Saint-Gobain Building Products
• Aperture Debt Solutions LLP on its MBO of the IVA business of Grant Thornton

• Solicitor, Law Society of Northern Ireland, 2012; Law Society of England & Wales, 2008
• LLB Hons., Trinity College, Dublin, 2004
• Legal Practice Course, Nottingham Law School, 2005