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While Ireland is currently enjoying a period of significant economic growth, Brexit – the UK's decision to exit the EU – poses a number of challenges and risks, and continues to dominate any assessment of the Irish economy.

The European Single Access Point (ESAP) will be a ‘single point of access' platform for public financial, non-financial and sustainability-related information about EU companies and financial products.

Most notably, the Bill includes provisions to implement the interest limitation rules and anti-reverse hybrid rules arising from the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive ("ATAD").

As the first half of the year draws to a close, we present an overview of some of the work that has kept our Tax Group busy in 2025.

The Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015 (the "ICAV Act"), enabled the establishment of a new structure for regulated investment funds domiciled in Ireland. Since the enactment of the ICAV Act...

During the course of 2021 and the first half of 2022, we continued to see financial sponsors being a key driver of M&A activity in the Irish market. However, as Central Banks across the world...

We advise on the largest and most complex private equity transactions across the public and private market space.

There has been a marked increase in the number of transactions involving financial sponsors in the Irish market over the last 24 months, although this is simply an acceleration...

We advise on the largest and most complex private equity transactions across the public and private market space.

Section 10 Finance Bill 2017

The Legal 500 and The In-House Lawyer have published their Comparative Legal Guide for Ireland on Mergers & Acquisitions.

A cross-border merger may be effected in one of three ways, as follows: (i) Merger by absorption, whereby an existing company acquires all the assets and liabilities of its wholly owned subsidiary.

A draft of the Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022 (the "Bill") was published on 2 August 2022.

Ireland's proposed Media Regulation Bill introduces sweeping reforms to the country's media merger regime, expanding regulatory oversight to include social media platforms and streaming services while transferring assessment authority from ministerial to independent regulatory control. The legislation modernizes decades-old definitions of media businesses and implements new notification thresholds that could significantly increase the volume of transactions requiring regulatory approval.

In response to the shift from a principles to a rules-based regulatory approach and the increased use of enforcement actions by Irish regulators and similar bodies, we have developed a dynamic cross-disciplinary Regulatory and Administrative Sanctions Unit, made up of specialists operating in our financial services, litigation and regulatory and compliance teams.

Ireland’s merger control regime is mandatory and imposes a prohibition on the merging parties putting a notifiable merger into effect prior to Authority clearance.

The European alternative investment funds industry is dealing with what is perhaps the most fundamental change in its history as it now comes to terms with the significant implications and potential opportunities offered by the EU Directive 2011/61/EU on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (the "Directive" or "AIFMD").