Colm Manning

Colm specialises in transactional corporate work with an emphasis on M&A, private equity, venture debt and business purchase transactions.

Colm also possesses significant expertise in advising businesses, from scaling SMEs to long-established listed companies, on the design, implementation and operation of employee share schemes and their treatment in domestic and international takeovers, mergers, acquisitions and IPOs

Recent significant work includes advising:

• UKG Inc on the acquisition of global payroll software provider Immedis and structuring of employee share incentive plans.
• Halifax Group on its acquisition of Sodexo’s Home Care Division.
• EQT Private Equity on the employee share incentive aspects of its acquisition of a majority stake in AMCS.
• Various investor syndicates and institutional private equity and venture debt investors on investments into Irish SMEs.
• Carbery Group on its commercial agreements and R&D collaborations with industry and university partners.