Leo Sheridan’s Advanced Clinical, which carries out research trials on new drugs, is expanding into Ireland and the Chicago entrepreneur plans to bring the company’s new international headquarters to Dublin

Sheri Lewis of Avantor, a US chemicals and materials company which has just opened a specialised distribution centre in Dublin, sees lead times shortening and costs coming down, ‘but it’s still quite fragile’

Dutch company Arcadis’s purchase of the Dublin-based firm will give it a new global reach, say industry sources