Mr Fergus Bolster > Matheson LLP > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile

Matheson LLP
70 SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY
DUBLIN 2
Ireland
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Work Department

Partner in Corporate M&A Group

Position

Fergus Bolster is a partner in the firm’s Corporate M&A Group, where he focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate re-organisations (including corporate re-domiciliation and demerger transactions), financing transactions, securities law and corporate governance matters.

Fergus has represented public and private corporations, institutional, private equity and venture investors, State bodies and investment banks, transacting in a variety of industries and sectors, including, in particular, technology, energy and healthcare.  He has extensive experience advising US and other international clients on cross-border acquisitions of Irish companies, both public and private, migrations and capital markets transactions (undertaken domestically and by Irish companies listed on US and other foreign exchanges).

Fergus counsels corporate clients on a broad range of governance and business-related matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities, disclosure obligations and compliance matters.  This advice is often provided to boards and individual directors in situations where the satisfaction of their fiduciary duties may be subject to public scrutiny.

Education

Fergus earned his Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L. (Hons.)) from University College Cork and, before practicing law, interned as a Legal Stagiaire in the Human Rights’ Unit of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin.

Lawyer Rankings

Ireland > Commercial, corporate and M&A

Matheson LLP is at the forefront of cross-border transactions, particularly transatlantic deals; it advised Smurfit Kappa Group on its combination with US-based WestRock Company to form Smurfit Westrock. The firm continues to advise a high proportion of the Fortune 100 companies, many of the top global technology brands and a large number of the world’s leading asset managers. It remains noted for public M&A, private capital and financial institution deals. George Brady, Patrick Spicer, Brian McCloskey and David Fitzgibbon are at the pinnacle of the profession. Fergus Bolster, Madeline McDonnell and Susanne McMenamin are also key practitioners, along with Robert Barrett, Enda Garvey and the recently promoted Susan Carroll Chrysostomou.

Ireland > Capital markets

Matheson LLP has a big presence in both ECM and DCM. It is widely recognised for corporate re-domiciliations, M&A inversions and other ECM transactions. It has extensive experience in capital markets matters involving European and US exchanges and the ECM team has worked on a series of recent headline cross-border M&A transactions and de-SPAC deals. David Fitzgibbon, Fergus Bolster and George Brady are seasoned practitioners in the ECM space. The firm has an outstanding record in structured finance, securitisation, DCM and derivatives. It works with a range of clients on trade receivables, CLOs, commercial and residential mortgages, auto receivables, non-performing loans transactions and multiple other deals in the sphere. Turlough Galvin and CLO specialist Christian Donagh are at the pinnacle of the market, along with Vincent McConnon and William Foot. Richard Kelly has left the firm.