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Expertise

Paul is a partner in the firm's Corporate and M&A Group and has extensive experience advising on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions. He has been involved in a large number of high profile acquisitions and disposals in the Irish market and regularly advises leading Irish and international public and private companies, as well as private shareholders, on all aspects of corporate and commercial law with a particular emphasis on, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance matters, joint ventures, shareholder agreements and start-ups, private equity, cross border transactions, corporate migrations, management buy-outs, limited partnership investment funds, corporate reorganisations and general commercial agreements.

Prior to joining Arthur Cox in October 1998, Paul worked in an international private equity group.

Experience

In recent years, Paul has been involved in the following transactions:

• Acting for Curtiss Wright Controls in the acquisition of Acra Control Limited
• Acting for Donegal Creameries plc on the sale of its Milk and Retail Stores Businesses
• Acting for Take 5 Solutions in the acquisition of Digital Reach Group
• Acting for the shareholders of Noonan Services Group on its sale to an Alchemy Partners backed company
• Acting for Cubic Telecom Limited on all Irish legal matters
• Acting for Eutelsat S.A. and SES Astra S.A. in the establishment of Solaris Mobile, a joint venture Irish based satellite company and subsequently for Solaris Mobile
• Acting in relation to corporate migrations to Ireland
• Acting for Medco Health on Irish legal matters
• Acting for venture capital investors in Irish companies
• Acting for UTV plc in various acquisitions of Irish radio stations, most recently FM104
• Acting for Titan Outdoor in Irish M&A transactions and in relation to advertising contracts
• Acting for Liberty Global Inc. on the acquisition of the cable business of ntl in Ireland
• Acting for Topaz Energy Group in the acquisition of the retail fuels business of Royal Dutch Shell plc in Ireland
• Acting for KLA-Tencor in the acquisition of an Irish company
• Acting for Wockhardt in the acquisition of Pinewood Healthcare
• Acting for Avaya Inc. in the acquisition of Spectel plc
• Acting for Greencore Group plc on the disposal of a number of its subsidiary companies including Erin Foods Limited and Grassland Fertilisers
• Acting for IWP plc on the disposal of Jeyes Group Limited to Legal and General Ventures
• Acting for shareholders of CCM Software Services Limited in its sale to Serco plc
• Acting for Agere Systems Inc on the acquisition of Massana Limited