Gerard Ryan

Gerard has extensive mergers and acquisitions experience and also advises on private equity and venture capital investment and corporate reorganizations. He also has an expertise in advising on corporate governance, shareholder agreements and matters including contentious shareholder disputes.

Examples of transactions that Gerard has worked on include advising:

• The management of the healthcare technology group Clanwilliam Group on its sale to global equity company TA Associates. *
• Advising AI log management company Bronto on seed funding round backed by Cercano Management Venture Capital and Heavybit.
• Profitero, the e-commerce analytics company on its sale to French advertising company Publicis. *
• Kingspan, the leading global company in high performance insultation and building envelope solutions,  on its acquisition of a majority interest in the infrastructure and data centre construction services company Q-nis. *
• Kingspan, the leading global company in high performance insultation and building envelope solutions, on its investment in Invicara, a provider of transformative software solutions for the entire ecosystem of the built environment. *
• Kingspan, the leading global company in high performance insultation and building envelope solutions, on its investment into H2 Green Steel, a company pioneering new green production methods for steek manufacturing using hydrogen. *
• A leading Irish construction company on a shareholder dispute and implementation of a new shareholding arrangement including a growth share scheme. *
• The health tech platform Medihive on an investment by US digital health tech group ResMed. *
• A leading international hotel operator on a number of acquisitions and disposals of hotels in Ireland. *
• STAR Capital on its acquisition of the global aviation group ASL Aviation Holdings, a global aviation services provider with operations globally. *

* work undertaken prior to joining William Fry