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Adam Griffiths: Expect flexibility and a flight to quality in private equity deals this year

Irish businesses are well placed to take advantage of the changing nature of private equity investment

‘There’s still a lot of strategic capital and private equity money looking to be invested’

Melior Equity Partners co-founders Peter Garvey and Jonny Cosgrave, two of the most experienced deal makers in Ireland, look at deal volume and business valuation trends over the past two years and give their forecast for the rest of 2023

Isif backs US venture capital firm to boost clean tech with €18m

State’s sovereign wealth fund says cash is part of its targeted investment in climate action projects

Future is bright for 70% of SMEs

Despite inflation and drop off in spending, survey shows majority are optimistic about economic conditions this year

Company behind Webdoctor.ie valued at €62m after major US firm invests

ResMed, a healthcare business with 8,000 staff, invested €7m in the Dublin organisation

Commercial Property

Private equity investors turn away from buying Dublin pubs

Buyers may instead look at regional pubs after acquiring many prime Dublin sites in 2021

Horseware Ireland records double-digit growth for 2021

The Dundalk-based equestrian accessories company is majority controlled by private equity group Lonsdale Capital Partners, which paid over €47 million to acquire a 70 per cent stake in early 2021

ISIF to inject €50m into venture capital firms led by women

Just 5 per cent of managing partners in European investment firms are female, compared to 15 per cent in the US

Ireland top for growth in private equity deals in Europe

Locally, 137 PE deals were completed last year – almost three times the number in 2016

British private equity group buys building materials firm Etag for €8.2 million

British private equity and sustainable infrastructure investment firm completes its first acquisition in Ireland

Cardinal Capital: ‘International capital is retreating from Ireland. We need strong local funding’

Horse sense: Equine business on course to hit €100m sales by 2026

Horseware Ireland chief executive Mark Saunders says the company is aiming to maximise its potential after a restructuring and refocus on its core equine products business

Private equity deals returning to normal after ‘once in a generation’ boom in 2021

While valuations in some areas have moderated from the heady highs of 2021, private equity firms agree that good quality businesses will always attract investment

The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: SoftBank’s troubles may be an ominous sign of things to come

Now that the era of cheap money that drove the success of the private equity sector is coming to an end, the billionaire Masayoshi Son may not be the only one whose fortunes are turning

Waterland commits additional €100m for new investments in Irish firms

The Dutch private equity firm has already invested in three Irish companies since it first set up a presence here in 2019

The Big Interview

‘We agreed the time was right and so we put the family business up for sale’ – Ted Wright of Writech

When the pandemic struck and Writech co-founder Ted Wright found himself working from home, he began questioning what he wanted to do for the next two decades of his life – and the answer involved selling a majority stake in the fire protection systems firm

McCauley network buys two Wexford pharmacies for €2m

Tony McEntee, chief executive of the independently owned chain which now employs 550, has noted the current skills shortage and difficulty in finding staff

Mullingar-firm Writech sells majority stake to private equity group Waterland

The Westmeath-based designer and manufacturer of fire protection systems said it will use the private equity investment to develop a new design and innovation centre

Vincent Boland: Global private equity is on a spending spree in Discount Britain

Post-Brexit, British corporate assets are cheap compared to their international peers, and the FTSE index looks like a relic of a bygone era

Buoyant market: Why private equity deals are surging after lockdown

After a brief lull when Covid-19 first hit, the deals pipeline is ‘on fire’ again thanks to a flurry of activity and a raft of investments into sectors considered to be Covid-proof