David Rowan

Practice Areas

David Rowan is Head of A&L Goodbody's Corporate and M&A group in Belfast. David is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer with a transactional practice focusing on public and private mergers and acquisitions, leveraged and management buyouts, group reorganisations, strategic investments, venture capital investments, joint ventures/partnerships and commercial contracts. He has acted for businesses in a variety of sectors including insurance, media, financial services, food production, investment funds, healthcare, retail and IT. Prior to joining A&L Goodbody David worked in the London office of a leading US law firm and he is a qualified solicitor in Northern Ireland and in England and Wales.

Areas of expertise include:

•Corporate and M&A

•Commercial Contracts

Career

Experience Advising:

- Prestige Insurance on its acquisition of Insure NI/ Autoline

- Shareholders of Camperco Group on its sale to Apollo Tourism & Leisure

- Shareholders of Foodco NI on its sale to Henderson Foodservice

- Jose Cuervo on its acquisition of The Old Bushmills Distillery Company

- EESL Energy Pro Assets on its acquisition of Edina Power Services Limited

- Crown Laboratories on its acquisition of Vita Liberata

- The Golf Channel (a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation) on its acquisition of BRS Systems

- Hasting Funds Management on its acquisition of Phoenix Natural Gas

- H&T Bellas on the disposal of its business to Saint-Gobain Building Products

- Aperture Debt Solutions LLP on its MBO of the IVA business of Grant Thornton

Education