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Fintan specialises in tax. He advises companies on tax planning, including the tax aspects of acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations, migrations, securitisations and financings. He also advises multinationals, investment funds, banks and insurance companies in relation to insurance, financial and structured products. Previously Fintan worked in the tax groups in Skadden Arps and Herbert Smith.

Experience

A selection of recent deals that Fintan has advised on include:

• Advising Alkermes Inc on the merger with the drug delivery business of Elan plc resulting in a new NASDAQ listed holding company for the new group
• Advising the majority of US listed companies on their migrations to Ireland which all involved a scheme of arrangement to insert a new Irish incorporated and resident NYSE-listed holding company including: Covidien, Ingersoll-Rand, Accenture, Cooper Industries, Willis Group, Global Indemnity and Seagate
• Advising Seagate in relation to combining the hard drives operations of Samsung into Seagate's operations
• Advising Cooper Industries plc in relation to restructuring matters, bond issuance and other financing transactions
• Advising SAP in relation to its Irish treasury operations
• Advising a number of clients on moving intellectual property to Ireland to be exploited and developed in Ireland
• Advising Airtricity Holdings Limited (“Airtricity”), a leading wind energy company, in relation to its sale to Scottish and Southern Energy Plc (“SSE”) for an equity value of approximately €1.1 billion
• Acting for the shareholders of Noonan Services Group on its sale to an Alchemy Partners backed company
• Advising Treasury Holdings in relation to the first and only Irish domestic CMBS
• Advising EBS Building Society in relation to the issue of structured Tier 1 securities
• Advising Wachovia in relation to the establishment of its Irish bank