- Deals of the Year 2020: Equity Capital Markets
Uniphar plc, the Irish diversified healthcare services group, was the only company to complete an IPO on the Euronext Growth Market in 2019. The July IPO raised €139.4 million and facilitated a liquidity event for a large number of disparate holders of legacy interests in the group as well as providing investment capital to support growth in its rapidly developing Product Access and Commercial & Clinical Divisions and some of the funds raised have been deployed to date in completing the acquisition of Durbin in the UK and other acquisitions in Ireland and Europe.
- Deals of the Year 2020: Debt Capital Markets
The work of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) throughout 2019 features strongly in amongst the DCM nominations this year. These include the €4 billion 30 Year benchmark bond issued in May 2019 with a coupon of 1.5 per cent (funds were raised at a yield of 1.53 per cent) and the €4 billion 10 Year benchmark bond issued in January 2019 with a coupon of 1.1 per cent (funds were raised at a yield of 1.123 per cent). Both issuances had orderbooks over EUR 18 billion and the January issuance had an order book in excess of EUR 18.1 billion, the largest ever received by Ireland for a syndicated bond sale.
- Deals of the Year 2020: Aviation Finance
The aviation finance deals reflect Ireland’s role as the leading aircraft leasing centre in the world. If you add in Ireland’s world-class securitisation infrastructure the result is a lot of aircraft-backed securitisation deals by world-leading aviation lessors and financiers.