Corporate Finance Team |
The energy, talent and experience of the Davy Corporate Finance people are what set it apart. Our senior executives have been the leading advisers in some of Ireland's largest transactions and come from a variety of backgrounds - Ivan Murphy, Des Carville, John Frain, Eugenée Mulhern.
Ivan Murphy – Head of Corporate Finance
Ivan joined Davy Corporate Finance in 1991 having previously worked in corporate advisory with Kleinwort Benson Limited in London. Ivan has more than 25 years experience advising companies from early stage through IPO and secondary fundraisings as well as mergers and acquisitions and debt capital markets transactions. He has been actively involved in high profile corporate transactions for many of Ireland’s leading companies in recent years. He is an honours economics graduate of University College Dublin and a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. He is also a director of BES Management Limited.
Ivan's recent transactions include: advising on the founding of Azur Pharma Limited, various funding rounds and the subsequent $580m merger with Jazz Pharmaceuticals, the Irish Government recapitalisation of Irish Life & Permanent Group and the acquisition of Northern Rock (Ireland), the funding for IFG Group’s acquisition of James Hay, the cross-border merger of food groups IAWS Group plc and Hiestand AG to create ARYZTA AG, the €100m sale of Horizon Technology Group to Avnet Inc., the €400m IPO of Origin Enterprises plc, the €3.6 billion IPO of Smurfit Kappa Group plc and the €2.6 billion acquisition of Eircom plc by Babcock & Brown Capital.
Des Carville - Director
Des joined Davy Corporate Finance in 1998. He has been involved in many high profile corporate transactions in the Irish market including IPOs, primary and secondary fundraisings, public takeovers and private company mergers and acquisitions. Since autumn 2006 he has advised on the flotations of Boundary Capital and Siteserv, fundraisings for Riverdeep, Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep, Smart Telecom, CREO and OpenHydro, the Moonduster bid for ICG and the Davy management buyout.
Des is a chartered accountant, having trained with KPMG, and holds an honours business studies degree from Trinity College Dublin.
John Frain - Director
John joined Davy Corporate Finance in 2001. He has been involved in many high profile corporate transactions in the Irish market in relation to IPOs, merger and acquisition activity, public market and private fund raisings, strategic advice and regulatory matters. Since 2006 John has advised on numerous transactions including the flotations of AGI Therapeutics, Petroneft Resources and TVC Holdings, fundraisings for Petroceltic and Petroneft Resources and the Calyx management buyout.
John is a chartered accountant and previously worked with ABN AMRO Corporate Finance and PricewaterhouseCoopers financial services group. John has an honours BComm and a MAcc from University College Dublin, is a registered representative of the Irish Stock Exchange and is a member of the Securities & Investment Institute.
Eugenée Mulhern - Director
Eugenée joined Davy Corporate Finance in 1997 and was appointed a director in 2003. She has worked on many high profile public company transactions including the flotations of First Active plc and Riverdeep Group plc. Mergers and acquisitions on which she has advised include Ryanair in connection with its offer for Aer Lingus, the board of ARCON on its acquisition by Lundin Mining, the board of First Active on its acquisition by Royal Bank of Scotland, and South Wharf in connection with the tender auction of its Ringsend site. She has also advised on numerous fundraisings by way of placings, open offers and rights issues, including those of Waterford Wedgwood plc and Independent News & Media, and on share buy backs by Bank of Ireland, Ryanair, Independent News & Media and Abbey.
Eugenée holds an honours degree in law and economics from University College Galway.