Corporate Finance
Helping clients achieve their strategic goals
Welcome to Corporate Finance
Our Corporate Finance team offers a full-service investment banking proposition with unrivalled experience and in-depth knowledge across a wide range of industries and transaction types, serving clients for over 30 years. Our corporate finance advisors has extensive capital markets experience across equity capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and debt capital raising.
Equity Capital Markets
We help our corporate clients and shareholders achieve their strategic goals. Our team, based in Dublin and London, has a proven track record of executing successful Equity Capital Markets transactions, including Initial Public Offerings, follow on equity issuances and share buybacks across a broad range of industries, stages of development, geographies and the market capitalisation spectrum.
We strive to provide significant value to our clients and to develop long term relationships with leading business and management teams.

Mergers and Acquisitions and Strategic Services
Davy has been advising leading Irish entrepreneurs, business owners and companies since the 1980’s. Our aim is to build long-term advisory relationships based on trust, objectivity and confidentiality all with the guiding principal of delivering bespoke, independent advice.
We have extensive experience advising private sector clients as they seek to achieve their strategic goals and growth plans. We work with a broad range of clients from early-stage technology start-ups to large cap industry leaders. We have a dedicated and experienced M&A team to advise on all matters of both public and private M&A activity.
Our expertise includes:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Management buy-outs and public to private transactions
- Defence advisory
- Joint Ventures and partnerships
- Sector expertise

Debt Capital Markets
Our highly experienced Debt Capital Markets team have a proven track record advising clients on debt and fixed income fundraising, structuring and restructuring, be it debt for acquisitions, refinancing of existing debt or restructuring of existing debt. We specialise in institutional fundraising from banks, non-bank credit funds and pension managers providing clients with in-depth market knowledge.
Our expertise includes:
- Debt fundraising advice for companies / real estate investments
- Structured fixed income fundraising and private placement transactions
- Mezzanine or venture debt funding
- Debt restructuring and renegotiation

Private Capital Markets & Debt Advisory
Arranges the private placement of patient private capital, both equity and debt
Entrepreneurs, companies and fund general partners benefit from knowledgeable counsel and differentiated insights on private capital raising, debt advisory and special situations.
Structure, optimise and execute your capital raising with the benefit of decades of global experience in investment banking and across the private capital markets landscape of alternative asset, multi-strategy and other institutional investors.
Private Capital Markets are agnostic as to geography and sector, and structure solutions across the capital structure. Clients access investor networks across UK, Ireland/EU and USA.
In times of volatile or dysfunctional financial markets, we assist our clients to manage their creditors, liability structures and find new sources of liquidity.
Investors receive focused, vetted and attractive investment opportunities.

Strategy Advisory
Supporting clients in the definition and execution of strategy
We support senior management in the clean articulation, communication and execution of multi-annual strategy, leveraging the full suite of Davy capabilities including the deep sectoral capabilities of our research team and the institutional investor insights of corporate broking.
Our small and specialist senior team works collaboratively with business and functional leadership to ensure that there is alignment on the growth priorities of the business and, by extension, your organic and inorganic capital funding needs.
This, in turn, enables our corporate finance specialists to better understand your M&A agenda and ensure that capital funding structures are appropriate to your ambitions.

Decarbonization Team
Davy recognizes the importance of decarbonization in the fight to protect our environment. We also know that it will take a lot of innovation and investment to achieve the ambitious targets set by Governments across Europe and the world. That is why we have set up our Decarbonization Team to help existing and new businesses develop and fund decarbonization strategies and solutions.
Our expertise includes:
- Fundraising for public and private companies across the capital structure
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Strategic advice
- Sector expertise

Industries
Davy’s Corporate Finance team has built up a vast range of experience providing a range of transaction and deal advisory to clients across various industries including the following:
Consumer & Retail
Real Estate
Healthcare
Hospitality & Tourism
Natural Resources / Energy
Financial Services
TMT
Industrials
Our Recent Transactions

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Corporate Finance Insights
Meet our Corporate Finance Team


Marco Schwartz
Head of Davy Capital Markets UK
Davy Capital Markets UK

Graham Hertrich
Managing Director
Davy Capital Markets UK


Derek Buckley
Head of Wealth Business Development
Davy Capital Markets





Dr Fergal McNamara
Senior Policy Director
Davy Decarbonization






Lauren O'Sullivan
Associate Director
Davy Corporate Finance









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