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3 days ago |
thecurrency.news | Michael Cogley
In the wake of Brexit, high-profile clients of international law firm Hogan Lovells kept asking the question: Why don’t you have an Irish office? Almost overnight, Ireland’s attractiveness to financial firms had skyrocketed. Suddenly, London would no longer function as their gateway to Europe and instead they would have to look to other European cities in order to passport their services into the bloc.
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1 week ago |
thecurrency.news | Michael Cogley
There have been better times to be an international student in the US. The Trump administration has revoked over a thousand visas from those who have travelled to America to study, and the president has also threatened an outright ban on overseas students for Harvard as part of a growing row between the White House and the iconic educational institution.
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1 week ago |
thecurrency.news | Michael Cogley
In 2020, a trio of London-based investors struck out on their own to launch a new fund that would place “entrepreneurial empathy” at the heart of its private equity pitch. The sell won over prospective backers, and that new fund, Queen’s Park Equity, raised £202 million (€236 million). Since then, the business has set about deploying capital on behalf of endowments, foundations, family offices, and philanthropic organisations.
"An extra voice in people's heads": How Trump's tariffs are impacting private markets - The Currency
2 weeks ago |
thecurrency.news | Michael Cogley
Since the start of this month, US President Donald Trump has forced wild fluctuations in public markets. The short-lived imposition of so-called reciprocal tariffs on America’s trading partners led to widespread sell-offs on domestic and international stock exchanges and brought the prospect of an imminent US recession into focus. But the American president blinked, undoubtedly moved by an alarming continuation of the sell-offs into the bond markets.
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1 month ago |
thecurrency.news | Michael Cogley
One of the defining features of the Irish business sector last year was the rapid expansion of private equity – both domestic and international. There were 74 PE deals concluded in 2024, more than double that in 2023, with some of the more high-profile transactions conducted by Swedish private equity business EQT by way of the acquisition of gaming services company Keywords and waste management firm AMCS.
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