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Corporate Finance Deal of the Year: Take Private of Jurys Doyle Hotel Group
 The complexity and size of the take-private of the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group, by the Doyle family, coupled with the level of media interest it generated, due to the number of bidders for the Group, ensured that this deal was awarded 'Corporate Finance Deal of the Year'.
Eircom's €420m acquisiton of Meteor came in second to the Jury's take-private and the acquisition of Superquinn by Select Retail Holdings came in third. |
Most innovative deal: REO's €375m CMBS deal
 Real Estate Opportunities' (REO) securitisation of its commercial property assets was voted as the 'Most Innovative Deal' of 2006. This deal marked the first time that a commercial mortgage backed securitisation (CMBS) has been transacted in Ireland, and is the first time that a corporate entity has securitised its assets. In the deal, REO, which is a subsidiary of Treasury Holdings, securitised 16 retail and office properties 15 in Dublin and one in Cork - valued at €375 million. |
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The financing for the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group take-private, was awarded 'Best Leveraged Finance Deal'. This was the largest deal in the Irish capital markets over the past year, and unusually, the offer was conditional on achieving only 50 per cent acceptances from the shareholders.