Jerome Kennedy

Experience

Jerome advises Irish and international corporate and individual clients on cross-border acquisitions, disposals, restructurings and other general corporate matters. Jerome has particular expertise in private equity, advising private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, sellers and management teams on private equity transactions.

Key highlights include advising:

• Kerry Co-Operative Creameries in connection with its acquisition of Kerry Dairy Ireland;
• Mannok Holdings DAC in relation to the sale of the group to Turkish building materials group Çimsa, a subsidiary of Sabanci Holding, a global industrial and financial conglomerate;
• MML Capital on its investments in Innopharma Education & Technical Services and Southern Control Systems;
• Melior Equity Partners on its investments in Rose Confectionery, NRG Panel Ireland, JFW Renewables and The Big Red Cloud;
• Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, a London-based infrastructure investor, in connection with its acquisition of Irish fibre network operator, Speed Fibre Group;
• Greenvolt Group in relation to its acquisition of the majority stake in Enerpower, the renewable energy developer;
• Beauparc Utilities Holdings, Ireland’s largest waste management company, in relation to its sale to Macquarie Group;
• the management team of WaterWipes on the acquisition of the group by 3i;
• The management team of Centaur, a leading global provider of fund administration services on the sale of the Centaur business to Waystone;
• The management team of MCR Outsourcing Limited on the sale of the MCR Group, a leading provider of cleaning, security, engineering and personnel services in Ireland to Freshstream Investment Partners LLP;
• the management team of Nostra Technologies on their equity participation on the acquisition by Phoenix Equity Partners; and
• The major shareholder in Workhuman in relation to the acquisition of its shareholding and the debt and equity funding of that acquisition by private equity firm ICG.