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Walkers is perhaps best known for advising on corporate deals in the financial services sector, including handling aviation leasing and investment funds. Mid-market transactions form the core pillar of the practice. Recently promoted partner Eoin Ryan heads up the practice; Brendan O’Brien left the firm in 2023.

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Key clients

  • Princess Pictures
  • AMCK
  • Lease Corporation International
  • Lagers
  • Allied Risk
  • Oakley Capital

Work highlights

  • Managed the legal aspects of a complex pre-sale restructuring and drafted transaction documents to effect it which were material to facilitate a transaction with a reported value of $4bn.
  • Advised a joint venture between LCI and LAGERS on the acquisition of a portfolio of helicopters with a deal value of $60m.
  • Acted as Irish counsel in relation to the acquisition of a minority stake of around a third in the UK-based testing and inspection company Phenna Group from Inflexion.

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Eoin Ryan

Eoin Ryan

Walkers

Eoin Ryan is a Partner in the Irish office of Walkers and is a member of the firm's corporate department. Eoin has extensive expertise in share / asset acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, partnerships, shareholders' agreements and has worked on domestic and multi-jurisdictional transactions from initial stage through to completion. He also advises on domestic and cross-border corporate restructuring, Irish corporate governance and general commercial matters. Recent Experience Eoin has acted on a number of high-profile transactions including advising: an Irish mast company in relation to its multi-million euro sale to an infrastructure fund; an Irish wireless networks company on its sale to a US entity; a large US corporation on its multi-million euro acquisition of an Irish media company; a UK asset manager on its entry into various joint-venture agreements with Irish property developers; a European advertising company on its acquisition of an Irish advertising business; a leading European finance company on the multi-million euro sale of its assets to a US bank; an Asian corporation on its multi-million euro acquisition of an Irish semi-conductor company; the lender to a UK bank on the restructuring of its Irish operations; an Irish energy company on various equity-fundraising rounds; and a UK bank on its successful exit from various Irish investments.

Practice head

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Eoin Ryan