Gerard Ryan

Practice Areas

Gerard is a partner in and Head of the Corporate Department and has extensive transactional experience with an expertise in mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, venture capital and private equity. He also advises on the corporate structuring of foreign direct investment into Ireland and matters of corporate governance. Gerard has lectured and delivered talks to professional bodies, including the Law Society of Ireland on corporate law issues.

Career

Examples of transactions that Gerard has worked on include advising:

- Profitero, the e-commerce analytics company on its sale to French advertising company Publicis

- The health tech platform Webdoctor on an investment by US digital health tech group ResMed

- STAR Capital on its acquisition of the global aviation group ASL Aviation Holdings, a global aviation services provider with operations on six continents

- Kingspan, on its investment in Invicara, a provider of transformative software solutions for the entire ecosystem of the built environment

- Kingspan on its investment into H2 Green Steel, a company pioneering new green production methods for steek manufacturing using hydrogen.

- Clanwilliam Group, the Irish healthcare, technology and services group on its acquisition of a number of healthcare technology, service and communications companies

- Development Capital on a number of its investments

- Vela Software, part of Constellation Software Inc. on its acquisition of software company Financial Risk Solutions

- Euronet Wordwide Inc., a leading global payments provider, on its acquisition of approximately 400 Easycard branded ATMs in Ireland from Royal Bank of Scotland

- Circle K on the sale of its 50% stake in the company operating the joint fuels terminal in Dublin Port

- Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. on the acquisition of Topaz and Esso Ireland

- Shareholders of E-Shop World on sale to Asendia which is a joint venture between two of the world's leading postal operators, La Poste and Swiss Post

Professional Memberships

He is a board member of the Ireland Funds board in Ireland. The Ireland Funds are a philanthropic network that supports worthy causes in Ireland and around the world.