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Blown off course: How Arena Capital Partners’ €112m loan-note crisis unfolded

Blown off course: How Arena Capital Partners’ €112m loan-note crisis unfolded

Last Friday afternoon, junior counsel John Lavelle rose to address Justice Max Barrett. With urgency, he explained why Arena Capital Partners — a company describing itself as “a dominan...

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Reaching across the oceans: CKS Finance among founding members of international M&A alliance

Reaching across the oceans: CKS Finance among founding members of international M&A alliance

CKS Finance, the Irish corporate finance advisor, has become a founding member of a new international alliance of independent M&A advisory firms called 7Oceans.  The boutique corpor...

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Dan O'Brien
                                    19th Sep, 2025 –
										6 min read

Dan O'Brien 19th Sep, 2025 – 6 min read

Dan O’Brien 19th Sep, 2025 – 6 min read

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Dan O’Brien: How Ireland prospers amid economic uncertainty

Dan O’Brien: How Ireland prospers amid economic uncertainty

The global economic outlook is uncertain, to say the least. The quality of governance in the US, the country that was once the world’s anchor of stability, is increasingly resembling th...

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“Shifting sands”, “luck penny” payment, and a family “steamrolled” by litigation

“Shifting sands”, “luck penny” payment, and a family “steamrolled” by litigation

It would be a fair bet that not many people will remember what they were doing on the evening of August 22, 2023.  But, the country will have a firm grasp of the exploits of John Magnie...

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