Strong activity to stem from many sectors

Crowe Horwath’s managing partner Naoise Cosgrove expects M&A transactions to echo last year’s performance

Naoise Cosgrove, managing partner of Crowe Horwath

‘2015 was a very strong year for M&A activity for the SME sector in Ireland, especially coming off the back of six or seven years where we saw very little transactions,” said Naoise Cosgrove, managing partner, at advisory firm Crowe Horwath.

He is optimistic the tempo will remain strong in 2016. “Business sentiment and optimism are very strong and the funding environment is more favourable than it has been for many years and ...