David O'Donnell

• Corporate law
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Venture capital
• Private Equity
• Joint Ventures
• Shareholder Agreements
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Establishments
• Partnerships
• Securities Law
• Intragroup Restructurings

David advises a broad range of clients including:

• Global corporates doing business in and through Ireland
• Some of Ireland’s leading corporates and entrepreneurs
• General partners
• Limited partners
• Global corporates
• International private equity firms

Education

• University of Dublin, Trinity College (LLB)

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ireland
• Advisory Committee of Business Angels Partnership
• Chairman of the Closely Held and Growing Enterprises Committees, International
  

• Advised on the sale of Ashdown Control Systems and Ashdown Control Services, which have been involved in a number of major Irish construction projects in recent years such as the National Children’s Hospital, Curragh Racecourse, One Microsoft Court, Grangegorman TU Dublin and Capital Dock.
  

• Represented Boparan Holdings Limited (2 Sisters Food Group) on the Irish law aspects on the sale of the entire issued share capital of Green Isle Food Limited, including Goodfellas Pizza, to Nomad Foods Europe Limited.
  

• Represented RCI Banque Ireland on its investment in iCabbi.
  

• Represented the shareholders of Blueface Limited in its merger with Star2Star Communications.
  

• Represented Group Adéquat on the purchase of the recruitment agency Sigmar Recruitment.
  

• Represented Virgin Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Global, on its acquisition of UTV Ireland from ITV plc.
  

• Represented McKesson Corporation on its acquisition of the pharmaceutical distribution business of Irish FTSE 250 company, UDG Healthcare plc.
  

• Represented Brookfield Renewables Ireland in relation to the purchase of the renewable assets of Bord Gáis.
  

• Represented Killeen Group Holdings in the sale of Mount Juliet hotel and golf resort to Brehon Capital Partners and Emmet O’Neill.
  

• Represented Danaher Corporation in connection with the acquisition of Biotector Analytical Systems Limited and Analytical Developments Limited.
  

• Represented Daktronics Inc on its acquisition of Data Display Holdings Limited.
  

• Represented the major shareholders of PolarLake on the sale of PolarLake to leading global financial news service Bloomberg LP.
  

• Represented Dragon Oil plc in the recommended offer by Emirates National Oil Company for Dragon Oil plc.
  

• Representing Berkshire Partners, LLC Advent International Corporation & Bain Capital Partners, LLC in their recommended offer for Skillsoft plc.
  

• Representing Vedanta Resources plc in connection with the acquisition of zinc mining interests in Ireland.
  

• Represented FL Partners in the acquisition of Tomsburg Limited.
  

• Represented Metic Group plc in its admission to AIM.
  

• Represented the shareholders of Biotrin Group Limited in its sale to DiaSorin S.p.A.
  

• Represented Milliman, Inc. in its acquisition of Life Strategies Limited.
  

• Represented Simpson Strong-Tie Ireland Limited in its acquisition of part of the business and assets of Liebig Group.
  

• Represented Orangold Limited in its acquisition of Donegal Highland Radio plc and Highland Media & Communications Investment Limited.