Brendan Murphy

Experience

Brendan is a partner and incoming Head of the McCann FitzGerald’s Corporate and M&A Group.

Brendan specialises in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments/bolt-ons and disposals, alternative capital investment transactions, joint-ventures and re-organisations.

Brendan advises clients across a variety of business and industry sectors with a particular focus on infrastructure, real estate, construction, engineering, financial services and healthcare.

Brendan plays a lead role as part of the firm’s private capital offering, working with specialist colleagues in asset management and funds, regulatory, tax, real estate, construction and debt finance to design and optimise structures for deployment of private capital in Ireland, and to deliver private equity and private capital investment transactions.

Key highlights include advising:

• Primary Health Properties plc on Irish aspects of its takeover of Assura plc, its acquisition of facilities engineering business Axis Group, and several corporate acquisitions of Irish primary care centre assets.
• Hammerson plc in relation to its Irish platform, including its joint venture with PIMCO for Dundrum Town Centre.
• Axa Investment Managers on its joint venture arrangements with Kennedy Wilson in connection with an Irish PRS and commercial property investment portfolio.
• Pure Data Centres Group, an Oaktree Capital affiliate, on corporate aspects of the acquisition and development of its Irish data centre portfolio.
• Jones Engineering in connection with the disposal of the group to US fund Cathexis, and in relation to ongoing corporate and governance matters.
• Integrated Material Solutions, a construction waste and recovery business, on its disposal to Basalt Infrastructure Partners.
• The Sisk Group in relation to:
  1. its acquisition of construction and engineering firm, Farrans,
  2. its acquisition of facilities management business, Sensori, and
  3. its acquisition of light gauge steel manufacturing company, Vision Built, from examinership.
• Kerry Co-operative Creameries in connection with its acquisition of Kerry Dairy Ireland, the consumer food products and dairy ingredients business of Kerry plc.
• Coillte in relation to the establishment of the Irish Strategic Forestry Fund, sponsored by Gresham House.
• Marlet Property Group in relation to co-investment structures with its private equity partner M&G Group.
• Magnetar Capital in relation to its investment in an Irish-based intellectual property platform Atlantic IP, and in relation to the disposal of its interest in Irish commercial lender, First Citizen.
• J&E Davy on the disposal of its real estate investment, advisory and asset management business to management of the division.
• Allianz Partners on Irish aspects of its acquisition of the worldwide health insurance business of Aetna International.
• The Irish Strategic Investment Fund (the Irish sovereign wealth fund) on:
  1. its joint venture with Frisby Group for the co-development of a new enterprise centre on the site of the Waterford Crystal factory in Waterford City,
  2. its joint venture investment in connection with the proposed development of a new film studio in Greystones, County Wicklow, including the disposal of part of its interest in the venture to US film studio investor Hackman Capital Partners,
  3. its investment as limited partner a number of private funds with a variety of strategies, including Waterland Private Equity Fund IX, Beechbrook SME Fund, Pearl Residential Equity Funds I and II, and
  4. its investment in a commercial real estate lending platform managed by Quadrant Real Estate.
• Sealed Air Corporation on its acquisition of digital food packaging business Foxpak.