Ken is head of the Corporate team at Hayes solicitors.
Ken is widely recognised as a leading adviser on acquisitions, disposals, and capital markets transactions across various industry sectors.
Ken is widely recognised as a leading adviser on acquisitions, disposals, and capital markets transactions across various industry sectors.
Ken is widely recognised as a leading adviser on acquisitions, disposals, and capital markets transactions across various industry sectors. He advises on joint ventures and corporate re-organisations of publicly quoted and private companies, and on corporate governance and general corporate law.
He has extensive expertise in the technology, financial services, hospitality, healthcare, gaming, media and sports sectors.
Ken is a highly experienced adviser on a wide range of corporate transactional, strategic and governance matters. Significant examples include advising:
Business founders on the realisation of their interests, including: Technopath Clinical Diagnostics; Giraffe Childcare; Nationwide Control Parking Systems; MontLake; Salmon Software; Caveo Information Systems
The launch of Level Health and its joint venture with Aviva to provide health insurance services in Ireland
T2 on its acquisition of Nordeus for up to US$378m
Consolidating investors in pensions and investment advisory, fintech and professional services sectors
Deposit Return Scheme Ireland in the establishment of Ireland’s return membership scheme for single use plastics
DHL Global Forwarding in the buy-out of an Irish joint venture
The largest former shareholder in Connemara Biomedical on a series of share purchases and on the sale of the company for up to €130m.
The Irish Department of Finance on the negotiation of escrow arrangements with Apple Inc. and on the capital restructuring of Allied Irish Banks plc
International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. on its €1.4bn acquisition of Aer Lingus Group plc
Ontario Teachers Pension Plan on its successful €405m tender to run the Irish National Lottery
Fairfax Capital, WL Ross, Kennedy-Wilson and others on the €1.1bn purchase of a 34% equity stake in Bank of Ireland from the Irish Government
Horse Racing Ireland on a joint venture to redevelop and operate the Curragh Racecourse
Various family businesses in establishing corporate governance and corporate structures to enable long term generational wealth building and protection