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Geoff Moore

Geoff has served as our Managing Partner since 2019. Prior to his current role, he served as Co-Head of our Corporate/ M&A Group specialising in mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory work for leading corporates. He has transactional experience across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus in recent years on the healthcare / pharma and financial services sectors. He has advised on many of the largest and most high profile M&A deals in Irish corporate history and is repeatedly recognised as one of the country’s leading corporate lawyers by leading independent publications, including Chambers Global/Europe, The Legal 500, IFLR and Who’s Who Legal. Previously, Geoff practised in the Corporate Finance Group of a leading New York firm. Key highlights include advising: on many of the largest/ most significant takeovers of Irish quoted companies including AbbVie/ Allergan, IAG/ Aer Lingus, Medtronic/ Covidien, Sumitomo/ Fyffes and Actavis/ Warner Chilcott a wide range of participants in distressed M&A matters, most particularly market-leading work on NPL portfolios for both selling financial institutions and private equity purchasers leading Irish corporates and their boards on complex corporate governance and strategic shareholder issues, particularly takeover defence and activist shareholder issues · Arthur Cox LLP

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About

Managing Partner at Arthur Cox LLP since 2019, Geoff is a leading corporate lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory and complex corporate governance issues. He has advised on many of the largest takeovers in Irish corporate history and on distressed M&A matters (including NPL portfolios); he previously practised in the Corporate Finance Group of a New York firm and is regularly ranked in major legal directories.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&ABanking & FinanceHealthcare / PharmaCorporate GovernanceRestructuring & Insolvency

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Expertise

Takeovers and public M&ADistressed M&A and NPL portfoliosCorporate governance and takeover defenceHealthcare / pharma sectorFinancial services sectorStrategic shareholder and activist shareholder issues

Education

  • MLitt, Trinity College Dublin, 1998
  • BCL, University College Cork, 1996

Admissions

  • Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 2001
  • Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales (non-practising), 2001
  • Admitted as an Attorney and Counsellor at Law in New York, 2001
  • Member, Law Society of Ireland