| Law firm looks to Cork for staff |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| Dillon Eustace has become the first large financial services law firm to open a second office in Ireland. The move is largely driven by staff requirements, as Dillon Eustace hope to attract experienced professionals from outside of Ireland to the rebel county. |
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| Major deals and big brands: a review of 2006 |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| It is not an exaggeration to say that 2006 was one of the hottest years on record for corporate banking. While there were a number of massive deals during the year, the real buzz in the sector had as much to do with the brands involved, as with the value and nature of the transactions, writes Rachel Naughton. |
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| MiFID is transposed |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| Ireland has become one of the latest member states to fully transpose the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) |
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| Moving back to Dublin doesn't mean lowering career expectations |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| Where once moving back to Dublin from top financial centres London or New York meant a step down in career or salary, this is no longer necessarily the case, writes Cara O'Leary, in an overview of Dublin's increasing prominence as a global financial centre from a recruitment perspective. |
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| New perspectives for electronic fixed income trading in Europe |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| The European electronic fixed income trading market is experiencing fundamental strategic shifts, as continued efforts to standardise the market is leading to electronic trading and voice assisted trading being brought together, writes Frank Gast, in this summary of BearingPoint's latest white paper into the sector. |
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| Nominations for FINANCE Deals of the Year 2007 |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
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| NTMA seeks external transition expertise |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) is setting up a transition manager panel in a move to minimise costs. |
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| Overseas investment by individuals |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| An anti avoidance provision, section 806, which was originally aimed at preventing tax avoidance arising from the diversion of income by resident individuals to foreign entities, has become an obstacle to foreign investment in a way not originally envisaged. It is poorly aligned with EU law and with other Irish tax measures impacting cross border investment.These measures ignore the need for major investment projects to retain earnings to be viable in the long term. Section 806 together with the general anti avoidance provision, section 811, it is part of a tendency to permit taxation by Revenue discretion , rather than by clear legal provisions. |
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| Pensco links up with Northern Trust |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| Pensco, the pensions management company has linked up with the asset management arm of Northern Trust, to offer index funds and global cash funds to Irish defined contribution (DC) pension market. |
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| People on the move |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| People on the move in Ireland's IFS sector |
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| Private equity and MBOs feature prominently in this year's nominations |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| The past year was an extremely busy one for Ireland's corporate finance and capital markets, as illustrated by the number of nominations for this year's 'Deals of the Year' awards. The most high profile deals of the past year are included in the awards, such as Riverdeep's reverse takeover of Houghton Mifflin, which was valued at around $4.6 billion, and was the largest ever Irish M&A transaction and the largest private company fundraising and Aer Lingus' IPO and Ryanair's subsequent takeover attempt of the airline. |
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| Private equity continues to dominate M&A deals - is it time for corporates to fight back? |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| David Carson outlines how there has been a shift in the M&A marketplace with private equity now out-performing corporate. This is putting in-house teams under increasing pressure, he says and asks whether it is time now for the corporates to fight back? |
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| Public Private Partnerships, a closed shop or is there room for smaller players? |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| As the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) market in Ireland continues to mature, Kenny Whitelaw-Jones asks whether this is the time for smaller regional construction firms to take their share of the market. |
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| Regulation as a competitive force? |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| The dynamic chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), John Tiner, was in Dublin on February 15th to talk about competitiveness in regulation at the Institute of European Affairs. |
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| Springboard signs up with HML |
Issue: 03 / 2007 |
| Springboard Mortgages Ltd, the new specialist mortgage lender formed by Irish Life & Permanent and Merrill Lynch, has signed a three year servicing contract with HML. |
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