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Expertise

Ciarán has a broadbased corporate and commercial practice concentrating on mergers and acquisitions (public and private), joint ventures and private equity.

Experience

He was lead partner on the following transactions:

• Airtricity on its sale to Scottish and Southern Energy plc (€1.8 billion)
• Reox Holdings plc on the sale of its consumer foods division and Kerry Group plc
• Gold Fields on the public takeover of Glencar Mining plc
• CRH plc on its acquisition of a 50% share in a Portuguese cement business, Companhia Genal de Cal e Cimento, S.A., (€333 million)
• ntl Group on the sale of ntl Ireland to Morgan Stanley (€325 million)
• Ulster Bank on the sale of its fund management and fund administration divisions to Northern Trust and KBC respectively, (€120 million)
• KBC on the sale of its Irish asset management business to Kleinwort Benson
• NTR plc on the grant back to the National Roads Authority of the West-Link concession and subsequent securitisation with Morgan Stanley (circa €500 million); Kerry Group on its acquisition of Freshways Limited (€20 million)
• Aer Lingus on the disposal of its non-core subsidiaries, including TEAM Aer Lingus and the Spanish charter airline Futura
• Advanced Environmental Solutions on its sale to Bord na Móna (€60 million)
• Axa Private Equity on its acquisition of Punch Industries (circa €60 million)
• eircom plc on the demerger and sale of its mobile phone business (Eircell) to Vodafone plc (€3.5 billion)
• CapVest on the merger of Bachelors and Odlum/Shamrock food companies to form Valeo Foods
• NTR on the disposal of its UK waste business (Greenstar UK) and various PPP road assets