M&A activity going strong, with continued growth predicted

The first half of 2018 has seen a very steady level of mergers and acquisitions activity in Ireland with a more robust performance here than in Britain, according to Katharine Byrne, a partner in corporate finance at BDO, a leading chartered accountancy firm in Dublin.

Transactions for the first five months of the year have been strong as confidence creeps back into the market with 66 mergers completed to the end of May ...