Enda Newton

Enda has over 20 years of experience in advising on mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, corporate re-organisations, shareholder arrangements, corporate fundraising, joint ventures, venture capital and private equity.

Enda has particular expertise in advising clients in the Fintech sector and has advised both buyers and sellers on M&A transactions involving regulated financial services providers.

Enda was the Senior Corporate Lawyer in the Department of Finance during the later stages of Ireland’s banking crisis during which time he advised on some of the largest and most important corporate and capital markets transactions of recent years.

Examples of Enda’s experience include advising:

• The shareholders of Vizor Limited on the sale of that company to Bearingpoint Regtech GMBH (a Nordic Capital portfolio company)*
• The shareholders of WRITECH Group, a leading fire protection company, on the sale of a majority stake in that company to Waterland Private Equity*
• Novus Diagnostics Limited on an equity investment from Trinity Biotech plc*
• The shareholders of Cora Systems, a leading provider of enterprise portfolio, program and project management (PPM) solutions, on the sale of a minority stake in that company to Scottish Equity Partners*
• The shareholders of Galway Tool and Mould Limited on the sale of that company to Sybridge Technologies (a Crestview Partners portfolio company)*
• Bigger Stage Limited on the acquisition of a minority stake in that company by multinational media group, Fox Entertainment*
• The shareholders of Advantio Limited on the sale of that company to the Integrity 360 Group*
• The shareholders of Joyce’s Supermarket Group on the sale of that company to Tesco Ireland Limited*
• Vizor Technology Limited (trading as VT Electron) in connection with debt and equity fundraisings*
• The shareholder of CET Connect on the sale of the entire issued share capital of the company to MTM Engineering (a Waterland Private Equity portfolio company)*

Enda is a former director (and member of the Audit Committee) of the Investor Compensation Company Limited (the fund of last resort for failed MiFID) having been appointed to that position by two successive Ministers for Finance..