Following the spectacular fall of WeWork founder Adam Neumann in 2019, the office provider is re-establishing itself as a power in its field, and preparing to capitalise on the current turmoil in the post-pandemic office market. Will its gambits work?

The company has abandoned plans to take all the office space in the redeveloped Clerys on O’Connell Street and six other locations in the capital

Even if a proposition seems too good to be true, many investors who should know better will still try to take their cut and run before it all falls apart

The special purpose acquisition company phenomenon is an asset class in search of assets and its emergence is hardly surprising, given the IPO market’s structural problems, but these issues must be sorted out once and for all