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Davy Corporate Finance wins M&A Financial Adviser of the Year 2019

Davy Corporate Finance was named winner of the prestigious M&A Financial Adviser of the Year Award for Ireland at the 12th annual Mergermarket European M&A awards.

During 2019, Davy Corporate Finance was pleased to offer trusted advice to clients across a full spectrum of industries and transaction types, some highlights included:

• Uniphar’s €139m IPO, the only IPO conducted in the Irish market this year
• Capital raising:
  • Greencoat Renewables’ €147m placing
  • IRES REIT’s €134m placing
• Public company M&A:
  • Green REIT’s €1.34bn sale to Henderson Park Funds
  • INM’s €146m sale to Mediahuis
• Private company M&A:
  • STS’s sale to Dussmann
  • Cainthus’ minority stake sale to Cargill

Winners are decided using both M&A transaction data from Mergermarket deals database and independent expert opinion from a panel of leading European M&A practitioners.

John Lydon, Head of Corporate at Davy, commented: “Davy Corporate Finance is delighted to have won this prestigious award, recognition of a great year. The last 12 months has been a period marked by continued volatility for the Irish corporate sector, with the backdrop of Brexit, but also one of opportunity for the many companies who completed transformational deals during the year. Davy was delighted to have acted as financial adviser and broker on several of these major transactions in the Irish market in 2019 and we see a very positive outlook for further M&A and renewed investor appetite for further capital markets activity.”