Arthur Cox

Corporate and M&A

Stephen specialises in corporate and securities law for both listed and private companies, including M&A and ECM transactions.

Stephen has advised on some of the largest corporate transactions in recent years, including takeovers, mergers, acquisitions, cross-border transactions, corporate migrations and inversions, IPOs, rights issues, public offerings, reorganisations, and joint ventures and acts as relationship partner to some of Ireland’s leading companies.  He has particular expertise in corporate transactions in the industrial, financial, FinTech, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals sectors, as well as corporate inversions, redomiciliations, and migrations into Ireland. He has also had a key role in leading some of the highest-profile contested and hostile takeover transactions in recent years, with mandates spanning both the defensive and bidder sides.

Admitted as a solicitor, 2005.

English, Spanish

Law Society of Ireland; Past President of the Ireland Spain Economic Association; Club de Abogados M&A section.

Ph D, 2006, Trinity College, Dublin LLB (first class honours), 2001, Trinity College, Dublin.