A&L Goodbody's tax practice is led by Peter Maher. The team is made up of four corporate tax partners and eight other practitioners in total, all of whom are lawyers apart from Brian Butler who heads the VAT team. He previously worked at PwC before a ...
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A&L Goodbody's tax practice is led by Peter Maher. The team is made up of four corporate tax partners and eight other practitioners in total, all of whom are lawyers apart from Brian Butler who heads the VAT team. He previously worked at PwC before a spell as GE's European VAT manager. Both Maher and Butler are well known in the market as leading practitioners.
The practice focuses almost exclusively on corporate tax and M&A work. The volume and complexity of the work the practice has carried out this year is impressive. The practice has acted on nearly all of the significant transactions involving financial institutions in Ireland. James Somerville and Paul Fahy advised Allied Irish Banks in relation to its acquisition of the €12 billion ($17 billion) deposit book of Anglo Irish Bank in a highly innovative transaction which made use of the recently enacted Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Act.
Examples of an increasing amount of M&A work include advising Elan Corporation on its $960 million cross-border merger of Elan Drug Technologies with Alkermes, and advising Aegon on the Irish tax aspects of the $1.4 billion sale of its life reinsurance business Transamerica International Re Ireland to SCOR. And in insolvency work the team has been advising Commerzbank on the restructuring of its Irish Oaktree vehicles.
Other clients they have worked for this year include TPG Capital, Permira, Bank of Ireland, Tim Hortons, Catalent, Morgan Stanley, Waha Capital, Banco Santander and Genzyme Group. The practice's success was recognised this year by being awarded Ireland Tax Firm of the Year at International Tax Review's European Tax Awards.
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