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Fergus Bolster is applauded for his ‘availability, response and pragmatic advice’
Corporate and Commercial: European Legal 500 2012
Fergus Bolster is highly regarded by market commentators and has a wealth of experience in the corporate sector.
Chambers Global 2012
Market commentators see Fergus as a rising talent in the market. He is celebrated for his technical skills and played a significant role in advising Payzone on a major debt and capital restructuring.
Corporate/M&A: Chambers Global 2011
Fergus Bolster has a growing reputation for corporate restructuring. “He has a quick and thorough appreciation of the commercial factors driving a deal” note commentators.
Corporate/M&A: Chambers Europe 2011
Peers highlight Fergus as "very methodical and always concerned with the result of a deal."
Corporate/M&A: Chambers Europe 2009
Fergus is recommended by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and PLC Which Lawyer?.
Expertise
Fergus is a Partner in the firm's Corporate Department where he focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, securities law and corporate governance matters.
Fergus advises on mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, restructurings and capital-raising transactions. He has represented public and private companies, institutional investors and financial intermediaries engaged in variety of industries and sectors. He has extensive experience advising on takeovers of publically quoted companies subject to the Irish Takeover Rules and on matters of Irish securities law generally.
Fergus also counsels corporate clients on a broad range of governance and business-related matters, including directors' duties and responsibilities, disclosure obligations and compliance matters. This advice is often provided to boards and individual directors in crisis situations where the satisfaction of their fiduciary duties is subject to particular scrutiny.
Education
University College Cork, BCL
Highlights
Fergus has advised:
- Cemex España, a member of the Cemex Group (BMV (Mexico): NYSE) on its recommended public acquisition of Readymix Plc (ISE) by mean of an Irish law scheme of arrangement
- Realm Energy International Corporation (TSX Venture Exchange) on its recommended US$139 million public merger with San Leon Energy Plc (AIM)
- Maple Energy Plc (AIM: LIMA) on a US$254 million debt and equity financing of its Peruvian ethanol project
- Engine Yard, Inc on its private acquisition of Orchestra Platform Limited
- FEXCO on its private acquisition of Goodbody Stockbrokers from Allied Irish Banks Plc (ESM)
- Goodbody Corporate Finance, financial adviser to Cerasus II Limited, on the recommended US$129 million public acquisition by Cerasus II Limited of Trintech Group Plc (NASDAQ) by means of an Irish law scheme of arrangement
- Angelini Labopharm Limited Partnership on the establishment of a joint venture between Labopharm Inc. (TSX: NASDAQ) and Gruppo Angelini for the commercialisation of the OLEPTRO(TM) drug
- Payzone Plc (AIM) and its key-management on the terms of a debt and capital restructuring involving its existing RBS-led banking syndicate and a new private equity investor, Duke Street - which placed an enterprise value of €109 million on the Payzone business
- MLM Management Limited on its private acquisition of various companies comprising the Irish and non-UK international businesses of the Setanta Sports group from various receivers and administrators appointed by a Goldman Sachs-led banking syndicate
- IAWS on its €2.5 billion public merger with Hiestand and on the listing of ARYZTA, the new parent company, on the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) and the Swiss Stock Exchanges (SIX)
- Setanta Sports in relation to a succession of financing rounds in which institutional investors, including Doughty Hanson, Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs, invested, in aggregate, in excess of €500 million in the Setanta Sports group
- Renault SA in relation to its private acquisition of Glencullen Distributors Limited, the Irish based importer and distributor of Renault cars
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