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| Deals of the Year 2023: Deal making excellence portrayed across in 42 case studies: the winning Deals of the Year 2023
The 2023 Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards provide a showcase of Ireland’s thriving dealmaking eco-system, with innovation and dealmaking expertise evident across the 42 winning deals, profiled in this Report.
The awards recognise the contribution dealmaking is providing for economic solutions in the domestic economy, such as in numerous areas in housing, healthcare, and innovating business solutions in the SME sector. As ever the awards also recognise the continuing development of the expertise of the financial and legal and professional services industry.
The winning deals include major infrastructural and sustainable projects, while the jurisdiction’s status as a global legal centre for corporate law cases has been further enhanced with the addition to the Irish corporate deals canon of a number of landmark transactions and restructurings.
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| The Finance Dublin Accountancy Survey 2023
Key Findings in the 2023 Survey of Ireland's Top Accountancy Firm.
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| Private equity investors turn their attention to Irish accountancy’s mid and top end markets
Recent investments by private-equity backed firms in two of Ireland’s Top 20 Accountancy firms looks set to shake-up Ireland’s mid market, as both of the newly-backed Irish accountancy firms, Azets Ireland and Moore Ireland, gear up...
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| The increasingly influential role of PE in Irish M&A
There is strong expectation that deals between private equity players will increase in the Irish market in coming months and years ahead, writes Ogier’s Oisín McLoughlin. Depending on the type of business being sold and also the motivation of the vendors, it can be clear from the outset what type of sales process will be run. He writes it is likely in the months ahead the Irish market will see a mix of more discrete bilateral process deals as owner managers look for certainty in closing deals, and more open ‘auction’ type deals in an attempt to drive up the value achieved for sellers.
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| Citi’s expanded strategy to target mid-sized Irish corporates
Citi, one of the IFSC’s largest employers, is expanding its Commercial Bank activities in Ireland to target mid-size companies across a range of sectors including the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, life sciences, professional services and...
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| Ireland’s ‘War Budget’ - a victory for the long and steadfast pursuit of pro enterprise economic policies since the Global Financial Crisis
Editorial on the 2023 Budget: Finance Dublin, October 2022
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| Ireland’s top accountancy firms roar back to double-digit growth in 2021
The Finance Dublin Annual Accountancy Survey shows a return to robust fee income growth in 2021 for Ireland’s leading accountancy firms, bouncing back strongly from the COVID 19-induced slowdown in 2020. The figures for this year’s survey show Republic of Ireland fee income rose by 12 per cent in 2021, compared with just 1% in 2020.
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| Net growth in International Financial Services jobs of 5.6% in 2021 in Ireland, according to IFS Action Plan 2022 published by the Government
February 3rd 2022: Employment in international financial services grew by 5.6 per cent in net terms, to a new record of 52,800 jobs, figures contained in the 'Ireland for Finance' Action Plan for 2022, published by the Department of Finance. Sean Fleming TD, Minister of State with responsibility for Financial Services said this satisfactory result reflected an overall growth pattern that was overcoming tech-linked job losses in the sector and was resulting in net employment increases that were resulting in higher remunerated employment that was widely distributed across the regions of the state.
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| OECD hails global tax deal, and welcomes Ireland's decision to come on board Inclusive Framework on BEPS
8th October 2021: In a statement welcoming the global tax deal agreed by 160 countries, Ireland's position was copperfastened today with a finalised proposal to be ratified later this month by 136 countries in the OECD Inclusive Framework on BEPS. The Irish Goverment's position is set out in a press conference by Minister Paschal Donohoe yesterday, and streamed here: https://twitter.com/IRLDeptFinance
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| Taoiseach and Tanaiste welcome Alter Domus' creation of 100 new jobs in Cork, to bring its headcount in Ireland to 280
January 27th 2021: Alter Domus has announced it is creating 100 extra jobs on the back of continuing expansion of its European Centre of Excellence in Cork as demand for cross-border fund administration and asset servicing grows. Taoiseach Micheal Martin, welcoming the move, said "there will be even greater opportunities in the Financial Services sector in years to come and the innovative graduate development paths provided by Alter Domus will help ensure future growth". The Tanaiste Leo Varadkar said "I warmly welcome this further expansion of Alter Domus in Cork, which will create 100 new highly-skilled roles over the next year, on top of the 80 created last year. I am particularly pleased to see the company will continue the partnerships it has established with local third-level institutions".
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