Geoffrey is an Associate in the firm’s Corporate & Commercial practice group based in our Dublin office.
Geoffrey advises on a wide range of corporate matters including: mergers, acquisitions and divestures (M&A); private equity / venture capital (PE/VC); joint ventures (JV); and corporate reorganisations. He has particular expertise advising both domestic and international clients with a focus on large, multi-jurisdictional transactions in the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) and technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sectors.
Geoffrey previously worked in an international law firm in Dublin prior to joining Simmons including experience working in that firm’s New York office in its global M&A and aviation finance teams.
Some of Geoffrey’s recent deal highlights include:
- Euronext Paris-listed Ipsos on its acquisitions of B&A Group and Jarmany Group.
- Waystone on the acquisition of Link Fund Solutions.
- TMF Group on its acquisition of Goodbody Fund Management.
- MUFG-owned First Sentier Investors on its acquisition of Albacore Capital Group.
- NASDAQ-listed Flex on its $540m merger with Anord Mardix Group, a global data centre infrastructure service provider.
- Euronext Brussels-listed Aedifica on its acquisition of 19 Irish care home assets for over €500m aggregate.
- FTSE-listed Diploma PLC on a variety of acquisitions in the manufacturing and distribution sectors.
- NASDAQ-listed Moog, Inc. on its acquisition of Team Accessories, a leading aerospace technology group.
- FTSE-listed Diploma PLC on its €60m acquisition of Accu-Science Group, an international MedTech instrumentation and consumables distributor.
- BioTouch (an Atlantic Street Capital portfolio company) on its acquisition of Titan Solutions.
- Quantexa on its acquisition of Aylien.
- DIF Capital Partners on its acquisition of Talbot Group, Ireland’s leading provider of services for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and acquired brain injuries.
- Acacia Group, one of Ireland’s leading facilities management and consulting businesses, on its sale to Apleona.
- Vivalto Santé on its acquisition of Grace Healthcare Group including a number of bolt-on transactions.
- FTSE-listed Close Brothers on its acquisition of Bluestone Motor Finance Group.
- NASDAQ-listed Flex on its acquisition of FreeFlow Technologies.
- FTSE-listed BT Group Plc on the sale of its Irish data centre business to Equinix.
- FTSE-listed BT Group Plc on the sale of its Irish wholesale fibre business to Cordiant-backed Speed Fibre Group.
- FTSE-listed Diploma Plc on its acquisition of Electramed, an Irish medical devices business focusing on orthopaedics, trauma, interventional radiology, and oncology.
- Ancala Partners on their acquisition of a portfolio of 300 telecoms towers from PTI, following a mandated divestment by the CCPC.
