M&A activity buoyant

Paddy Dillon, partner and head of corporate finance, Grant Thornton Ireland

Irish companies are buying more overseas, and overseas companies are buying more in Ireland. This is a simplistic yet accurate summary of why M&A activity in Ireland is on the increase.

Paddy Dillon, partner and head of corporate finance with Grant Thornton Ireland, said his company was seeing an increase in the international dimension of their M&A activity.

“I would say that 70 per cent of our transactions involves some kind of international ...