| M&A Deal Directory 2003 |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| Deals in excess of €1000m |
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| M&A Deal Directory 2003 |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| Deal Value Undisclosed |
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| Nominees for ‘Deal of the Year’ 2003 announced |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| Ireland’s leading corporate financiers have nominated 25 deals for the Finance ‘Deal of the Year’ which will be announced in next month’s issue. |
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| Outlook is promising, as Ireland looks set to buck global trend |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| The Irish corporate finance sector is set to have a busy year writes Peter Crowley, as privatisations of Government owned assets looks increasingly likely, and more international equity houses sizing up potential Irish buy-outs. |
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| Primary dealer status for Barclays Capital |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| London-based Barclays Capital, has been recognised by the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) as a primary dealer in Irish Government bonds. |
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| Role of ECB analysed |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| A CD-Rom aimed at to providing a reference point for better understanding of the genesis - the intellectual roots - of contemporary economic analysis on the workings, development, and impacts of the ECB has just been launched. |
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| Second PPP project closed |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| Ireland’s second Public Private Partnership (PPP) deal has been finalised. The project, completed on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, Noel Dempsey, TD, and the Cork Institute of Technology will result in a •51.3 million, state of the art National Maritime training facility in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork. |
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| Section 110 of the new Finance Bill will help the Irish securitisation industry play catch-up |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| The long awaited changes to the taxation regime applicable to Irish securitisation companies are contained in the recently published Finance Bill. These changes should greatly simplify the structuring of securitisations using Irish vehicles and expand the types of products (notably CDOs) that can be issued, writes James Somerville. |
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| Securitisation framework modernised |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| Changes announced in the Finance Bill 2003 should see Ireland become a major player in the location of special purpose vehicles (SPVs) for securitisation transactions. Section 110, which sets out the taxation framework for securitisation in Ireland, has been modernised to enable Ireland to remain at the forefront of the industry. |
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| Share options - yet again! |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| Each year the Finance Minister labours over tax proposals on share options. Each year he gets no closer to a satisfactory tax system. This year’s measures in the area of share options represent a low point to date in terms of complexity and meanness. |
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| Unaccustomed to financial insecurity: the plight of the wealthy |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| Mark Cunningham examines the Irish wealth management sector and predicts the winners and losers in the current bear market. |
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| Value-added treasury services vital to future of sector |
Issue: 03 / 2003 |
| Dublin needs to move up the value chain in order to maintain Ireland’s attractiveness as a treasury centre in the face of spiralling costs, leading treasury providers will tell delegates at the Fourth Annual Finance Dublin Conference. |
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| 2003 will be a year of modest returns say pension fund managers |
Issue: 02 / 2003 |
| Equities are expected to outperform fixed interest over the coming year as bonds are priced for a period of sluggish growth. Returns however, will be modest say Ireland’s leading pension fund managers as give their forecasts for 2003 and look back on one of the worst years for the Irish pension fund industry, which saw the average pension fund falling by 19 per cent. |
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| 2003 will bring some reduction in rate of insurance premium increases |
Issue: 02 / 2003 |
| Upon examining the 2001 edition of the Insurance ‘Blue Book’, which was released by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) last month, Des Hennelly writes that exceptionally poor results in 2000 led to escalating claims and reinsurance costs in 2001, which in turn led to insurers implementing large premium increases in 2002 in order to restore profitability. While 2003 should see a moderation in insurance premium increases, Henelly says that strong upward price pressure will be maintained for some classes of business such as household and liability insurance. |
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| Accolades for leading Irish law firms |
Issue: 02 / 2003 |
| Arthur Cox has been voted the top Irish law firm for the fourth consecutive year in the Global Counsel 3000 survey. |
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