Daire Cassidy is a senior associate in our Corporate and M&A Group, with extensive experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including private mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, joint ventures and public equity transactions.

Daire advises corporates, private equity sponsors and multinational companies on all aspects of private mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, joint ventures and public equity transactions. He has particular experience in cross-border M&A, regulatory compliance and international expansion, and has acted as lead associate on a number of high-profile transactions for NYSE- and LSE-listed clients.

Daire completed a 12-month client secondment with a NYSE-listed client, where he served as Group Legal Counsel, advising senior management on M&A (acquisitions and disposals), commercial contracts, corporate governance, treasury projects, procurement and anti-trust matters.

Relevant Experience

  • Advised Flutter Entertainment plc, the leading global sports betting and gaming group, on its $2.3 billion acquisition of Snaitech, one of Italy’s leading omni-channel operators, from Playtech plc (lead associate).
  • Advised Advent International, a leading global private equity investor, on its agreement to acquire a significant minority stake in Felix Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, a leading global Gx animal pharma player (lead associate).
  • Advised Leeds Equity Partners on the acquisition of Learnosity (lead associate).
  • Advised TE Connectivity plc, a global industrial technology leader, on the successful $40 billion transition of the place of incorporation of its publicly traded parent company from Switzerland to Ireland, while maintaining its NYSE listing.
  • Advised TPG Real Estate on its acquisition of Quintain Developments Ireland, the largest privately-owned residential developer in Ireland.
  • Advised CRH plc and Flutter Entertainment plc on their respective transitions to a US primary listing on the New York Stock Exchange
  • Advised Flutter Entertainment plc on the acquisition of MaxBet Novi SAD doo (Serbia’s largest gambling operator) — cross-border buy-side support including structuring, due diligence and regulatory matters (secondment).
  • Advised MTM Engineering on a strategic investment by Waterland Private Equity.
  • Advised Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in respect of its successful global intra-group reorganisation following Takeda’s takeover of Shire plc.