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Liam Booth, Managing Director
Liam started his business career with NCB in 1986 and over the past 18 years has accumulated a wealth of experience from the senior management positions he has held in investment banking and industry. Prior to re-joining NCB Corporate Finance as Managing Director Liam was a Director of Key Capital, the specialist corporate finance and capital markets advisory boutique. From 2000 to 2002 Liam was Chief Financial Officer of Datalex plc and from 1996 to 2000 he was Head of Corporate Finance at Goodbody Stockbrokers. Liam's Corporate Finance experience includes:- IPOs for Sherry Fitzgerald, alphyra, Trinity Biotech, Kingspan and Irish Continental Group
- M&A transactions including the Quinn Group takeover of Barlo Group
- MBO of alphyra
- Acquisition of Jeyes plc by IWP plc
- Sale of 50% of Kylemore Bakeries to DCC
- Sale of Dublin Drug to United Drug plc
- Strategic advice to the Irish Government on Aer Rianta
- Private equity fundraisings for Paddy Power, Imari Group, Sam Hire and Aquaporte
Liam served as a non-executive director of Irish Continental Group plc from 1987 to 2004.
Email: liam.booth@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5940
Andrew Ennis, Director
Andrew joined NCB in 2000 from ESB where he worked in their Corporate Finance department. Andrew specialises in utilities and has completed major fundraisings for Airtricity and engagements for the Commission for Energy Regulation, EirGrid and Dublin Port. Andrew has also advised a number of clients in the Irish property and food sectors.Email: andrew.ennis@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5949
Kevin Gallen, Director
Kevin joined NCB in November 2007.
Kevin was Finance Director of Unidare plc for 10 years during which time he was involved in the acquisition and disposal of businesses in the US, the UK, the Netherlands and Canada.
He also was responsible for the delisting of the Company's shares from the Irish and London stock exchanges in 2006 and a capital restructuring to facilitate the distribution of €100m to shareholders.
Since leaving Unidare Kevin has spent some time pursuing a number of corporate finance projects and subsequently held the CFO role in Siteserv plc, a company listed on the AIM and IEX.
Kevin started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and spent 6 years in their Amsterdam office. He also worked for two years for the Bacardi Corporation prior to returning to Ireland in 1996.
Email: kevin.gallen@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5938
Jonathan Gray, Director
Jonathan joined NCB in 2006 to set up a corporate finance business in London. He joined Phillips & Drew (subsequently UBS) in 1988 where he worked until 1998, latterly as joint head of Smaller Companies. From there, he joined HSBC to set up its Growth Companies team which he ran for five years. In 2003 he joined Williams de Broe as head of corporate finance and successfully restructured an underperforming business to return it to profitability. During his career, he has focussed primarily on UK smaller companies and has worked on over a hundred IPOs as well as a number of takeovers, mergers and restructurings. He acted as NOMAD for two companies on the first day of trading on AIM in 1995.He has an MA in Modern History from Oxford University and is a non-executive director of Tescom International.Email: jonathan.gray@ncb.ie
Tel. +44 20 7071 5252
Conor McCarthy, Director
Conor joined NCB in 2002 after spending 4 years in London working with Nordic investment bank, Enskilda Securities, working on a wide range of cross border M&As including the acquisition of Chubb/Yale by Assa Abloy for Stg£825 million and the acquisition by Sanitec of Twyford Bathrooms from HSBC for Stg£82 million. He also worked on divestments of businesses on behalf of European PLCs in the UK, Denmark, Germany and Sweden and had private equity responsibility. Since joining NCB, Conor has worked on a wide range of transactions including the Management buyout of BWG, the acquisition of Century Homes for Kingspan PLC and the acquisition of Botanic Inns pub group for Irish investors. Conor also advises private Irish companies on equity fund raisings and recently raised €20m for 3V.Conor was also Vice President of the Irish Tech Tour in 2004. Prior to moving to
Email: conor.mccarthy@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5989
Mandy O'Sullivan, Director
Mandy joined NCB in March 2004 from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London and has six years corporate finance experience. Mandy has advised clients across a number of sectors including advising:
- Becbay Limited on its €412m acquisition of South Wharf plc
- Triode Investments on its €390m acquisition of BWG
- Ballyvara Developments on its acquisition of Great Southern Hotels, Parknasilla
- An Post on its joint venture with Fortis
- ESB on the disposal of its 50% shareholding in Irish Power Systems to Bioverda
- Kingspan on its €98m acquisition of Century Homes
- One51 on acquisitions, investments and fundraisings
- Alstom on its €1bn disposal of its industrial turbine business to Siemens
- Wal Mart on its offer for Safeway
- Barconet on its disposal to Scientific Atlanta
- Petronas on the transfer of assets and restructuring of Premier Oil
- Drax on its restructuring
- AngloGold on the issuance of a convertible bond
Prior to joining Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Mandy qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen in Dublin.
Email: mandy.o'sullivan@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5936
Jonathan Simmons, Director
Jonathan joined NCB in April 2001 and previously had 4 years financial services audit experience with Deloitte & Touche. Since joining NCB, Jonathan has advised on a number of mandates including:- Aer Lingus' disposals of Futura and ASI, its investment in Icarus and the Aer Lingus investor process
- acquisition of
- Ulster Bank's disposal of Cunnigham Coates
- Nesbitt Acquisition Limited's takeover of Arnotts plc
- Quinn Group's takeover of Barlo Group
- Precinct Investment's takeover of Gresham Hotel Group
- Disposal of Irish Estates (Management) Limited
Email: jonathan.simmons@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5945
Shane Lawlor, Associate Director
Joined NCB in 2007.
2005 to 2007 - Hewlett Packard, Strategy & Corporate Development (London)
Shane was the Strategy & Corporate Development Manager for the EMEA region working on developing and implementing M&A strategy for Germany, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South Africa. In addition, Shane assisted with several divestitures of non-core businesses.
2000 to 2005 - Close Brothers Corporate Finance, Assistant Director (London)
Shane has 6 years investment banking experience with Close Brothers in London and has advised on a broad range of transactions including the following:
- Roxboro Group plc disposal of 2 divisions and return of £70m cash to shareholders (2005);
- Sale of Astron to RR Donnelly for £520m (2005);
- Restructuring of $565m of senior debt and convertible loan notes for Henlys Group plc (2004);
- 3i's investment in Williams Lea (2004);
- Radstone Technology plc's acquisitions of Octec and ICS including related equity fund raisings (2003 and 2004);
- Disposal of Dutton Forshaw motor dealership group to Lloyds TSB (2003);
- Danka Business Systems $750m restructuring and non-core disposals (2001);
- Deutsche Bank and Grainger Trust's recommended offer for BPT plc;
- Kerry Group plc recommended offer for Golden Vale plc (2001); and
- Enterprise plc reverse takeover by ARM Services (2000).
1996 to 1999 - Coopers & Lybrand (Dublin)
Shane qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand where he worked on a range of audit and advisory assignments.
Email: shane.lawlor@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5943
Fiona McGinley, Associate Director
Fiona McGinley joined NCB in 2003 from Key Capital. Fiona has acted for:
- Newcourt on its acquisition of Sheehan Security Corporation
- Spectel plc on its disposal to Avaya International Enterprises Limited
- Riverdeep on its acquisition of Broderbund
- The MBO team on its acquisition of alphyra plc
- A wide range of mandates for Norish and alphyra
Fiona previously spent four years working for Merrill Lynch in London, in both corporate finance and debt capital markets, where she worked on transactions such as The Royal Bank of Scotland Group's Tier 1 financing following the acquisition of National Westminster Bank, Biocompatibles' placing and open offer and Yule Catto & Co's merger with Holliday Chemical Holdings.
Email: fiona.mcginley@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5946
Barclay Clibborn, Senior Manager
Barclay joined NCB in 2005 and has advised on a broad range of M&A and fundraising assignments including:
- Management in its buyout of Escher Group from TA Associates
- Choice Hotels Ireland on its disposal of Quality Hotels and Comfort Inns to TVC Holdings
- Mater Private Healthcare on its disposal to private equity firm CapVest, management and staff
- Canford Healthcare on its private client placing
- Zamano on its listing on the Irish Enterprise Exchange
- Triode Investments on its acquisition of BWG Group
- Smart Telecom on its restructuring and take private
- 3V on its venture capital fundraising
Barclay graduated with a First Class Honours Computer Science degree from University College Cork in 1999, followed by a First Class Honours MBA from Trinity College Dublin in 2005.
Prior to joining NCB, Barclay spent four years in the telecoms market in Finland and also worked with IONA Technologies (Dublin) and Macquarie Bank (Sydney).
Email: barclay.clibborn@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5934
Alan Mahon, Senior Manager
Alan joined NCB Corporate Finance in November 2007.
Alan previously worked with Grant Thornton Corporate Finance during which time he was involved in the acquisition and disposal of businesses across a variety of sectors. Prior to that Alan worked with Ernst and Young in Dublin and JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management in London.
Alan qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2002 and holds a BSc (1997) and MSc (1999) in Finance from University College Cork.
Email: alan.mahon@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5964
Shane Sorohan, Senior Manager
Shane joined NCB in 2005 and since then he has worked on a number of transactions including advising:
- Becbay Limited on its €412m acquisition of South Wharf plc
- Largo Foods on its €62.3m acquisition of Tayto from C&C plc
- Second Property Growth Fund on its €100m private equity fundraisings
- Taggart Holdings on its acquisition of Yuill Group
- Crystal UK Development Fund on its €70m private equity fundraising
- Ballyvara Developments on its acquisition of Great Southern Hotel, Parknasilla
- CBRE Gunne on its disposal to CBRE
Shane graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business with an MBS in Financial Services, in both cases with first class honours. Prior to joining NCB Shane worked for two years in the Irish property sector.
Email: shane.sorohan@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5947
Emma Brewer, Executive
Emma Brewer holds a first class honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Bath. She spent 3 years in Grant Thornton's Audit and Assurance division, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and subsequently spent a further 18 months in the Project Finance team where she worked on a number of significant consultancy projects and Private Finance Initiative deals. Emma also worked with a number of technology start-up companies, particularly in respect of investor readiness. Emma joined NCB's London Corporate Finance department in April 2007.
Email: emma.brewer@ncb.ie
Tel. +44 20 7071 5221
Claire Connolly, Executive
Claire joined NCB in 2007. Prior to joining NCB, she spent four years in KPMG's Assurance division, where she gained extensive experience working with clients in the retail, pharmaceutical and property sectors.
During her time at KPMG, Claire qualified as an ACA, achieving Joint First Place in the Final Admitting Exams of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 2006.
She is a graduate of the International Business and Languages degree programme at DCU.
Email: claire.connolly@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5950
Daragh Lane, Executive
Daragh joined NCB in March, 2007. Prior to joining NCB, Daragh worked in GE's Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) group, auditing various GE businesses throughout Europe and the US. Prior to joining the CAS group Daragh completed GE's Financial Management Program (FMP) working in various financial roles in GE's financial services businesses.
Daragh holds a BA in European Business and French from DCU and is a graduate of ESC Reims, France.
Email: daragh.lane@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5935
Tom Pierse, Executive
Tom joined NCB in September 2006 having graduated from UCG with first-class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and from
Email: tom.pierse@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5932
Shane Cooke, Analyst
Shane joined NCB Corporate Finance in July 2007.
Shane is a graduate of Trinity College, D.I.T and Uppsala University, Sweden. He holds a joints honours degree in Business and Economics and a postgraduate in Law. Prior to joining NCB, Shane worked in the investment banking division of Citigroup, London and for a commercial law firm in Dublin.
Email: shane.cooke@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5857
Conor Murtagh, Analyst
Conor joined NCB Corporate Finance in April 2008.
Conor graduated from Dublin City University with a first-class honors Business Studies degree. Conor is a part qualified ACCA and has worked previously with Kingspan Group PLC on business development in Ireland and the UK.
Email: conor.murtagh@ncb.ie
Tel. +353 1 611 5953
