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Business Funding Advisory Services

Katharine Byrne

Contact details

Office: 
Dublin
Telephone: 
+353 1 470 0524
Fax: 
+353 1 477 0524
Email: 
kbyrne@bdo.ie
Web site: 
http://www.bdo.ie
Address: 
Beaux Lane House, Mercer Street Lower, Dublin 2 (map)

Biography

Biography: 
Katharine is Partner in the Corporate Finance Team. Katharine has specialised in Corporate Finance for the last 10 years having previously qualified as Chartered Accountant in our Business Assurance & Advisory department.

Services & Specialism

Services & Specialism: 
Katharine has built up considerable experience advising private and public companies across a range of transactions including acquisitions, disposals, fundraisings and refinancing. She has worked with a number of companies including Gowan Group, Greenstar, Calyx, Kayfoam, Arnotts and VHI. As Head of the Natural Resources Team in Dublin, Katharine has advised on several of the leading transactions in the Waste and Renewables sector including the acquisition by Greenstar of Veolia’s commercial waste business and the sale of DP Energy’s wind-farm portfolio to ESB. She is also member of our Healthcare Team having advised on several complex restructuring assignments for private healthcare operators. Katharine is a Law Graduate from UCD and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2000.

Sinéad Heaney

Contact details

Office: 
Dublin
Telephone: 
+353 1 470 0475
Fax: 
+353 1 477 0475
Email: 
sheaney@bdo.ie
Web site: 
http://www.bdo.ie
Address: 
Beaux Lane House, Mercer Street Lower, Dublin 2 (map)

Biography

Biography: 
Sinéad is a partner of the Corporate Investment & Business Advisory Team. Sinéad has over 10 years in a broad range of corporate investment and advisory assignments.

Services & Specialism

Services & Specialism: 
Sinéad is currently responsible for the management of the Davy BES Funds. Her role includes identifying and assessing suitable companies for investment by the Davy BES Funds and the on going monitoring of the investee companies. Sinéad has extensive experience working with large and medium sized privately owned businesses. With over ten years experience, Sinéad is a multi-disciplined SME adviser having been involved in many assignments including fundraisings, re-organisations, and debt and equity refinancing. Sinéad is a director of BES Management Limited, a joint venture company between BDO and Davy, the company which manages the Davy BES investments. Sinéad is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland.

Business Funding Advisory Services

The international financial crisis together with Ireland’s own domestic economic difficulties has led to a significant reduction in the availability of funding for Irish SMEs and Corporates. This coupled with a difficult trading environment, increasing margins and tightening credit terms has led to funding becoming the greatest challenge for Irish businesses.

BDO is the largest multi-disciplined “relationship-based” accountancy firm in Ireland and our multi-disciplined teams can assist in every aspect of your funding requirements.

Our Offering

Our teams have extensive experience in assisting clients to secure funds from various sources including:

  • Debt funding
  • Business Expansion Scheme funds
  • Enterprise Ireland funds
  • Private equity and angel investors
  • Revenue refunds

We can assist you by project managing the funding process from start to finish or alternatively providing expert advice in relation to certain aspects as required.

Our service offering includes:

  • Assessing your funding requirements
  • Assisting in developing a finance strategy
  • Business plan preparation/modelling/review for presentation to potential investors
  • Leading and project managing the funding/refinancing process
  • Leading and advising in relation to the negotiation of terms.

Our Experience

BDO specialises in advising businesses across all sectors, ranging from development stage through to successful international growth. Our experience and expertise has assisted our clients to successfully secure funding from a range of sources.

We understand the difficulties involved in raising finance in a challenging market and help bring clarity and experience to what has become an increasingly difficult process in sourcing finance, both from a debt and equity perspective.

We have a strong track record assisting trading clients of all sizes on funding and refinancing options and, over the past 12 months, have helped secure over €1billion in new and revised facilities for our clients. This has been achieved through our experience which spans funding origination (i.e. knowing who to talk to), structuring and good execution. We offer clients valuable knowledge and insight to the debt finance markets.

Furthermore, we have successfully raised and invested over €125 million in BES funding over the last 16 years. These funds have been invested in over 137 Irish companies across a wide range of sectors including traditional manufacturing, internationally traded services, ICT, wind farms etc.

Recent Transactions

Creganna
Funding Advisers to Creganna
on its acquisition of Tactx Medical

Cuisine Royale
Advisers to Cuisine Royale
on its equity fundraise

O’Briens
Advisers to Abrakebabra on the acquisition/fundraise for the business & assets of O’Briens

EI Subsidy Schemes
Secured €1.5m from EI Employment Subsidy Scheme for clients

McGill Environmental
BES Investment

Big Red Book
BES Investment

Campus IT
BES Investment

Helix Health
BES investment

 

For further information about our Business Funding Advisory Services,
please contact a member of our team.

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