Recent Work by Practice Area

Recent work relevant to Private Equity & Venture Capital   Babcock & Brown     Intel Capital     We acted for the principal provider of equity and of mezzanine debt finance in the MBO of the PPP business of Babcock & Brown     We acted for Intel Capital, Scottish Equity Partners and VentureTech Alliance in relation to a second round venture capital fundraising by Powervation Limited     Date : June 2009 Partners :  Ben Gaffikin                           Date : June 2009 Value : €4.5 million    Partners :  Ben Gaffikin                                       TV3 investment in Setanta Sports     Goodbody Stockbrokers     Advising TV3 in relation to its second investment in Setanta Sports     Advised in relation to equity investment in Merrion Pharmaceuticals Limited by Goodbody Stockbrokers on behalf of certain private clients     Date : November 2007 Value : €130 million     Partners :  David Byers                      Philip Andrews                           Date : April 2006 Partners :  Ben Gaffikin                      Barry Devereux                      Eamon de Valera                                       Adare Group - Secondary Buyout     Benchmark Capital     Advised in relation to integrated debt and equity package to support management in the secondary buyout of Adare Group     Advised Benchmark on the sale of their shareholding in NASN Limited (North American Sports Network) to ESPN Global Limited     Date : April 2006 Value : Stg£120m    Partners :  Ben Gaffikin                      Jim Murphy                      Eamon de Valera                           Date : December 2006 Partners :  Ben Gaffikin                                       Benchmark Capital     Doughty Hanson     Advised Benchmark Capital in relation to its investments in Setanta Sports and NASN     Advised Doughty Hanson and its consortium in relation to the proposed acquisition of NTL Ireland     Date : October 2005 Partners :  Barry Devereux                      Ben Gaffikin                           Date : April 2005 Partners :  Susan O'Halloran                      David Byers                                       Shell Ireland     Alimentary Health     Advised Anglo Irish Bank Private Equity and Anglo Irish Bank Private Bankers, the institutional investors, in relation to the MBO/MBI of the Irish assets of Shell     We advised Alimentary Health in relation to an investment by Enterprise Ireland, following on from an investment the previous year by Seroba Venture Capital Fund.     Date : July 2005 Partners :  Ben Gaffikin                           Date : October 2005 Partners :  Susan O'Halloran                                       Motorola Ventures     VWR International and Clayton Dubilier & Rice     Advised Motorola Ventures, an arm of Motorola, Inc., and Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P) in relation to the acquisition of an equity stake in Anam Mobile     Advised VWR International and Clayton Dubilier & Rice in relation to the acquisition of AGB Scientific     Date : January 2006 Value : €14m    Partners :  Valerie Lawlor                           Date : April 2005 Partners :  Barry Devereux                      Ben Gaffikin                                       Goodbody Stockbrokers     Azur Pharma Limited     Advised Goodbody Stockbrokers on the investment by certain of its private clients in the Westgate Joint-Venture     Advised Azur Pharma Limited in relation to its €40m equity fundraising     Date : August 2005 Value : €75m    Partners :  David Byers                      Ben Gaffikin                           Date : May 2005 Value : €40m    Partners :  Ben Gaffikin                                       ASA Pharma     Ultrasonic Scientific     Advised ASA Pharma in relation to its equity fundraising     Advised Ultrasonic Scientific in relation to several equity fund raisings.     Date : October 2005 Partners :  Ben Gaffikin                           Date : Ongoing Partners :  Paul Lavery                                       Axia Broadband         Advising Axia Broadband in relation to fund raisings and ongoing general advisory work.           Date : Ongoing Partners :  Paul Lavery