Patrick Spicer "is a key legal and business advisor and one of our company’s best assets".
ILO Client Choice Awards
Expertise
Patrick Spicer is a senior partner in the Corporate M&A Group, and chairperson of Matheson. He is a former Head of the Matheson's Corporate and Commercial Department.
Patrick acts for a large range of international companies doing business in and from Ireland, and specialises in particular in public and private company M&A, private equity transactions, equity fundraisings, reorganisations and refinancings.
Patrick is a previous winner of the International Law Office Client Choice award for Corporate Law in Ireland.
Patrick is also a member of the Council, and a director, of Dublin Chamber, and is a former director of Junior Achievement Ireland.
Patrick has advised:
- MariaDB plc on its de-SPAC transaction and listing on NYSE.
- Nexvet Biopharma plc on its recommended acquisition by Zoetis Inc.
- Fexco on the sale of Goodbody Stockbrokers.
- Allergan on its $66 billion merger with Actavis (NYSE).
- Perella Weinberg Partners LP on its role as financial adviser to US medical device maker Medtronic, Inc. on its $42.9 billion acquisition of Dublin-based Covidien plc.
- Questcor Inc on the Irish aspects of its $5.6 billion merger with Mallinckrodt plc.
- Apax, a major shareholder, in relation to the initial public offering by King Digital Entertainment PLC on the New York Stock Exchange, which valued the company at $8 billion.
- Actavis Inc on its $8.5 billion acquisition of Warner Chilcott plc.
- Eaton Corporation on its acquisition of Cooper Industries plc, valued at $11.8 billion.
- William Grant & Sons Limited on the €300 million acquisition of the international spirits division of C&C Group Plc.
- William Grant & Sons Limited on the sale of Carolans, Frangelico and Irish Mist brands to Italian drinks producer Gruppo Campari for €129 million.
- Tokyo Electron Limited on its acquisition of Magnetic Solutions Limited.
- Advent International Corporation in relation to their acquisition of a stake in Planet Payment, from Eurazeo.
- Dixon International Transport Limited in relation to the acquisition by Erisbeg Holdings Ltd, an Ireland based private equity firm, of an undisclosed stake in Dixon International Transport Limited, and the subsequent acquisition by Dixon International Transport Limited of Carna Transport Limited.
- US private equity firm Bain Capital LP on its €1.7bn acquisition of the Pan European food business, Valeo Foods Group Limited from CapVest Partners LLP.
- BC8 on its acquisition of The Talbot Group and its subsequent sale of the Talbot Group to the Dutch Infrastructure Fund.
- Winthrop Technologies, Europe’s leading dedicated turnkey data centre delivery provider, and its shareholders, on its strategic partnership with funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and affiliated funds.
Patrick Spicer is named ‘Highly Regarded’
Corporate and M&A: IFLR1000 2024
Paddy Spicer is listed in The European Legal 500 Hall of Fame.
Commercial, Corporate and M&A: The European Legal 500 2024
"Patrick provides hugely valuable expertise, support and guidance."
Corporate / M&A: Chambers Global and Europe 2024
"He is always willing to help and gather the appropriate people to assist and immediately address any issues or questions.""
Corporate / M&A: Chambers Global and Europe 2024
"Patrick Spicer is outstanding throughout prominent transactions."
Corporate / M&A: Chambers Global and Europe 2023
"Very knowledgeable, creative with the goal of finding solutions."
Corporate and M&A: IFLR1000 2022
Patrick Spicer “was a reassuring presence both at the negotiating table and behind the scenes to drive consensus and seek out practical solutions.”
Commercial, Corporate and M&A: The European Legal 500 2022
Patrick Spicer's "great ability to understand the core issues in any transaction incredibly quickly, and to distil these issues and the solutions into clear and commercially focused advice."
Corporate / M&A: Chambers Global and Europe 2022
Patrick Spicer has been recognised by The Legal 500 as an Elite Leading lawyer.
The European Legal 500 EMEA Hall of Fame 2020
"Patrick is always available at any hour, he is very detailed and I like how he describes things in a language that I can understand."
Corporate / M&A: Chambers Global and Europe 2020
Trinity College Dublin (LLB)