While Ireland saw 17 deals in 2024 valued at €250m or more, the majority of transactions where the value was publicly disclosed – some 89% – fell squarely into the mid-market category, worth between €5m and €250m.

Around two-thirds of the deals in 2023 involved an overseas bidder (67%), with 225 inbound transactions overall. Those deals were collectively valued at €11.3bn – 96% of the market.

Ireland remains an attractive proposition for international acquirers – both corporates and private equity investors...

There were 148 deals announced for Irish companies by overseas buyers and investors in the first half of the year – that included 83 first-quarter transactions, more than in any other quarter in the past five years.

The first half of the year has seen two very different trends in the Irish M&A market.

H1 was the busiest period for Irish PE investment since the pandemic, underscoring continued investor appetite despite increasingly challenging global conditions. Activity moderated in H2, as geoeconomic uncertainty...

One striking aspect of Irish M&A this year has been the range of industries that have seen notable deal activity, with the 20 largest transactions in the first half spread across no fewer than seven sectors of the market.

This monthly legal update examines critical developments across pension scheme compliance, artificial intelligence governance, ESG fund marketing regulations, environmental law precedents, payment services legislation, and defined benefit pension surplus management. Each article addresses pressing regulatory challenges and strategic considerations for legal practitioners and corporate decision-makers navigating Ireland's evolving legal landscape.

RESS 5 is the fifth auction held under the Irish Government's Renewable Electricity Support Scheme.

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) published on Friday 8 March its policy paper "Powering Prosperity, Ireland's Offshore Wind Industrial Strategy"...

Earlier today, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Energy (DCEE) published the provisional results of the Tonn Nua offshore wind auction, Ireland's second offshore wind auction under...

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European securities regulators are launching a comprehensive assessment of crypto-asset service providers' digital operational resilience, with a particular focus on custody activities and distributed ledger technology risks. The exercise will examine how firms manage critical areas including key storage, transaction controls, incident response, and third-party dependencies under the newly enforceable Digital Operational Resilience Act.

Welcome to our monthly update, featuring a curated selection of articles published over the past month.

This adjustment, the first in over a decade, reflects the ICF's strong financial position and is expected to offer relief to a large cohort of non-life insurance policyholders.

The defendants argued that there was a substantial overlap of evidence, witnesses, issues of law and alleged losses claimed by the plaintiff.

The Regulation of Lobbying and Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act 2023 (Amendment Act) strengthens the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015...

On 8 November 2024, the Irish Minister for Finance, Jack Chambers, signed a statutory instrument designating the Central Bank of Ireland (Central Bank) as the National Competent Authority...

The healthcare and life sciences landscape is constantly evolving as organisations strive to harness rapid technological advances.

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