Jordan O'Brien

OVERVIEW

Jordan is a partner in Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He specialises in corporate law, advising on a variety of transactions, in particular mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and venture capital, corporate restructurings, equity incentives and shareholder arrangements. Jordan also advises in respect of day-to-day corporate and commercial matters.

BACKGROUND

Jordan joined the Maples Group as a trainee in 2011 and qualified into the Corporate team in 2014, having trained in the Maples Group's Dublin and Hong Kong Offices. Jordan has been recognised as a 'Rising Star' with The Legal 500 EMEA.

"Very smart, very responsive and great to work with – adept at finding solutions without over-engineering things. Excellent at building relations with counterparts to help navigate deals in a collaborative way."  (The Legal 500 EMEA 2023)

Recent transactions

• Altocloud on its sale to Genesys
• Asavie on its sale to Akamai Technologies
• Boxever on its investment led by Polaris Partners
• Brightflag on its equity fundraising led by One Peak Partners
• Buymie on its €5.8m investment led by the Wheatsheaf Group
• Cardinal Capital Group on its investments in Luzern
• Clavis Insight on its sale to Ascential plc
• ifeel on its €5.5m Series A Funding led by Nauta Capital
• Movidius on its sale to Intel Corporation
• Nuritas on its US$20m Series A Funding Round led by Sandbox Ventures and €30m investment by EIB
• ProTek Medical Ltd on its acquisition by Molex (a Koch Industries division)
• Scopely on its acquisition of DIGIT Game Studios
• SportCaller on its sale to Bally's Corporation
• Sysnet Global Solutions on the investments by FTV Capital and True Wind Capital
• Taoglas on its acquisition of Firmwave
• Teamwork on its investment from Bregal Milestone
• The sellers on the sale of Singlepoint to Version 1
• UrbanVolt on its €7m funding round led by Irish Strategic Investment Fund
• Wayflyer on its US$10.2m investment round led by QED Investors, and its US$150m Series B funding co-led by DST Global and QED Investors

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