| Bord Gais seeks loan facility |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| Bord Gais has approached the market for a €500 million five-year dual-tranche facility.
The syndication was launched by mandated arrangers AIB, Bank of Ireland, BNP Paribas (joint bookrunner) and Citigroup/ SSSB (joint bookrunner.). |
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| Bread and butter treasury function serves Glanbia well |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| Debt reduction gives food for thought writes John Sherlock in this profile of Glanbia’s treasury department. |
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| Conference examines future of financial services in Ireland |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| More than 235 delegates heard from over 60 at the 4th Annual Finance Dublin Conference held in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin on March 25th and 26th, which conference provided an insight into the current state of the Irish financial services sector encompassing banking, insurance, funds, asset finance and treasury. |
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| Deal of the year 2003: Madison Dearborn’s €3.7 billion LBO of Jefferson Smurfit |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| The taking private of Jefferson Smurfit has been voted the corporate finance ‘Deal of the Year’ 2003 by Ireland’s top plcs. |
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| Directive will lead to ‘wall of money’ |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| A ‘wall of money’ should enter the equity markets as a result of the EU’s Pension Funds Directive, the head of the Irish Association of Pension Funds, John Feely, told delegates at the eighth annual International Fund Management Conference held on April 7th and 8th in Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
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| Economists’ Property Poll 2003 |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| Ireland’s leading financial services sector economists give their predictions for the outlook for Ireland’s residential property market over the next five years. |
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| Economists' Property Poll 2003 |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| The retail property sector is set to grow by 3.3 per cent per annum over the next five years, out-performing the residential sector, which is forecast to grow by 3 per cent in this, the seventh annual FINANCE property survey. |
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| Madison Dearborn wins award with its acquisition of the Jefferson Smurfit Group |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| The €3.7 billion leveraged buy-out of Jefferson Smurfit has pipped AIB’s $3.1 billion divestiture of AllFirst to M&T Bank to the post in the second annual FINANCE ‘Deal of the Year’ award. |
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| Managing organisational superstars |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| Delivering exceptional care, support and development to an organisation’s top performers is critical to the long-term success of companies who have by now weathered the excesses of the infamous ‘war for talent’, writes Ursula Hanon. |
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| Name calling |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| As the economy moves into a downturn, the attitude in the media, and in some official circles to the business community has become rather hostile. The tone of public debate, if one can so characterise some references to the business community and taxation in newspapers and radio talk shows, has developed a shrill edge. |
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| New consultancy |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| David Kingston, chairman of the Irish Stock Exchange and former Irish Life CEO, has joined forces with Pramit Ghose, one of Ireland’s leading money managers to form, Acuvest Investment Advisers, a new consultancy aimed at providing strategic investment advice to large corporates. |
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| No IPOs before 2005 - Irish venture capitalists |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| The vast majority of Irish venture capital companies do not foresee any significant IPO activity among their client companies before 2005 according to a new survey published by the Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA). |
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| Property ‘bubble’ is not going to burst say economists |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| A panel of Ireland’s leading economists, including stockbrokers, predict that Ireland’s residential property sector is not going to burst over the next five years. |
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| Regulation and corporate governance - the screw is tightening |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| In light of corporate scandals such as Enron, Worldcom and Tyco, a number of initiatives have been launched aimed at improving corporate governance. Kevin Allen examines one recent initiative, the Higgs Report, which was written by veteran board member Derek Higgs, and which reports on the role of non-executive directors. |
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| Taxation for international financial services - post IFSC |
Issue: 04 / 2003 |
| Deirdre Power outlines the taxation framework for international financial services in the post-IFSC era. |
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