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The lowering of the Irish merger control thresholds towards the back end of 2014 prompted a significant uptick in the number of merger filings in 2015 (78 in total).

One of the most immediate impacts of COVID-19 will be on the potential increased scope of the due diligence process.

As readers will be aware from our previous client briefing, ESMA published Guidelines on Liquidity Stress Testing in UCITS and AIFS (the "Guidelines") in September 2019.

On 15 March 2023, the UK Chancellor presented the UK Spring Budget to Parliament. The budget announced that the tax definition of a charity under Paragraph 2, Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010...

As part of this engagement, our team of specialists will conduct a detailed review of your current governing documents and arrangements via a desktop review, supplemented with appropriate interviews...

The Companies Act 2014 (Commencement) Order 2015 (S.I. 169 of 2015) was signed by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, on 1 May 2015.

The Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024 was signed into law on 12 November and amends the Companies Act 2014 (the Act).

M&A activity in Ireland has been consistently dominated by mid-market transactions and 2022 was no exception: almost nine in ten Irish M&A deals last year fell into the mid-market segment...

In an ever-increasing raft of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) litigation, news has broken that that BNP Paribas, the largest bank in the euro zone, is facing legal action for fossil fuel financing.

The European Parliament voted on Thursday 3 April, to postpone application of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive...

The Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2013 (the "Act") was signed into law on 24 December 2013 and has introduced what has become colloquially referred to as "examinership-lite", or what it is hoped will be a new SME-friendly examinership regime. Examinership is the legal mechanism by which an ailing but potentially viable company can be rescued.

In December 2018 the Government published draft legislation, the General Scheme of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018 (the Scheme) ...

The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphries, has laid the Competition Act 2002 (Section 27) Order 2018 (the "Order") before the Houses of the Oireachtais on 3 October 2018

Overseas investors remain committed to Ireland: foreign acquirers conducted 216 transactions in the country in 2022 – one more than in 2021, but the total value of inbound deals fell by almost a third to €12.5bn.

It is expected that turnover thresholds which determine whether mergers and acquisitions are required to be notified to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in Ireland ("CCPC") will increase in line with the table below with effect from 1 January 2019.

Ireland's leadership in data centre projects received a significant boost this morning with the news that the Irish Commercial Court ruled in favour of Apple's data centre in Galway.

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