| Financing MBOs: the legal issues |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| A manager getting involved in an MBO is faced with issues - negotiating, legal, financial - that may never have come across the desk before. The learning curve can be steep according to David O’Donnell. |
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| Financing opportunities for wind farm development not fully taken up |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Convinced that there is more scope for lending to wind energy developments, Niall King, sets out the characteristics of the elements of finance for alternative energy plants - equity, debt and tax based lending. |
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| Headhunters being paid in stock, too |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Never mind the cash, feel the stock: professional practices do it, executive directors do it, suppliers and consultants do it - so why not executive search firms? Leading Edinburgh based recruitment consultant Joanna Black writes about a widening practice. |
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| Hey, big lender |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Christine Moran, Associate Director in the corporate lending department of IIB Bank, is responsible for large corporate relationships, structured transactions and MBOs and MBIs. An FCA, she trained with Pricewaterhouse Coopers from 1982 to 1987. |
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| IMF calls for action on property prices |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| The International Monetary Fund has called on governments in eurozone countries with overheating property markets to take restrictive fiscal and regulatory action. |
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| Immigration policy to account for housing demand of 12,500 per year |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| The government’s plan to liberalise immigration for skilled workers will likely attract people who need family housing, and double the ESRI’s projection of housing demand from immigration alone. The accommodation of asylum seekers will also provide a new stimulus to housing demand over the next six years, writes Annette Hughes. |
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| In praise of the lodger |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Ireland has been experiencing a housing crisis. Many people wishing to buy their own home find it unaffordable. The tax system has been used to discriminate in favour of home buyers and against those letting accommodation. Is this wise? |
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| Industrial market to gain most from e-commerce |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Shortened leases, changed covenant policy and internet share options in return for cabling are some of effects of the e-commerce revolution for property investors, writes Brian Turner. |
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| Kearns plans fast-track PPPs |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Eammon Kearns, the newly appointed head of the PPP unit in the Department of Finance, plans to hit the ground running in his new post and have the pilot PPP projects operational in the short term. |
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| Let’s simplify stamp duty |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Business reorganisations are frequent occurrences. Stamp duty and capital duty reliefs are critical to them. These reliefs should be simplified. |
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| Managing euro weakness |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| No-one predicted the euro would fall by as much as it has this year. Finance asked John Rice, a treasury specialist, from AIB Corporate Treasury how corporate treasury managers do, and should, adjust to euro weakness. |
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| McGrory-Farrell urges accountants to embrace IT |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Information technology has revolutionised the accountancy profession and led to a fundamental shift in the role of the modern accountant, according to Ms Bernadette McGrory-Farrell, president of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA). |
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| New European law to affect credit management and debt collection |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Irish law has yet to deal adequately with the issue of late payment by companies. Gary Rice of Beauchamps Solicitors reviews developments in European legislation which should improve the position. |
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| Only IEP7m in ‘dormant’ assurance policies |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| The Irish Insurance Federation has had preliminary discussions with the Department of Finance concerning the issue of dormant accounts in the insurance industry. |
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| Plenty of new houses, but not in the right places |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Unfortunately the Annual Housing Statistics Report for 1999 differs from reality. |
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