Nick Lyons

Nick leads the Origination and Private Equity teams at Bank of Ireland Corporate & SME Banking. He has wide ranging experience over a long career in Banking in the UK, US & Ireland. Nick has been at Bank of Ireland for 12 years & most recently led Bank of Ireland’s Real Estate lending business. He previously held senior roles in Origination, Credit Risk & Relationship Management at ICC Bank, AIB Capital Markets & IBRC. He holds both B.Comm & Masters degrees in Economic Science from University College Cork.

Darragh O’Neill

Darragh has 17 years corporate lending experience across multiple teams and geographies, holding senior roles in the origination team for the last 8 yrs, both in New York and Dublin, before taking over as head of the Growth & Direct Origination team in early 2023. Darragh and his team are focused on providing debt facilities to new to bank borrowers along with supporting the ongoing growth of our BB/SME customer base. Darragh has a BSc Finance (Hons) from UCC.

Peter Davy

Peter has more than 18 years domestic and international corporate lending experience, having held various roles across Bank of Ireland including in the Bank’s Global Leverage Acquisition Finance and Credit and Market Risk units. Peter heads our origination and intermediaries coverage team, with responsibility for the advisory and private equity investor channels. Peter is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and holds a BSc(Mgt) (Hons) from Trinity College Dublin.

A track record of excellent, focused execution

Bank of Ireland is the largest lender to the Irish economy, and our appetite to lend to Ireland’s best businesses has never been greater. We will engage with you quickly and look to give you quick decisions so you always know where you stand.

Our track record in deal innovation and execution has resulted in multiple “deals of the year” awards in recent years.

What you experience

We’re in this for the long term, not just today’s transaction.  You’re just a call or a meeting away from a wealth of knowledge, experience and connections that will benefit your business. Just ask the question and let us show you what we can do.

• Customer focused solutions tailored to your business needs
• Embedded support for your strategy and business growth goals
• We’re connected and deeply integrated into the business community, so you will benefit from our broad sectoral knowledge and extensive network.
• Our international presence in the US, UK and in the EU, as well as our Global Markets expertise provides you with quick, timely access to international and market insights to help your business perform on the world stage.

Customer testimonials 

Intermediaries

• Our team of highly experienced professionals combines a depth of credit experience, with a commercial, responsive and flexible culture.
• We benefit from a streamlined decision-making process and are fully committed to providing timely, decisive and consistent service.

Private Equity / Leveraged Acquisition Finance

• Since 2010, in excess of 157 Mandated Lead Arrangement transactions have been completed. Recent examples include; the merger of Anord Control Systems Ltd, a portfolio company of global private equity firm, Bertram Capital and Mardix Holdings Ltd to create Anord-Mardix and the establishment of Netwatch Group following the merger of four market-leading monitoring companies, with the partnership of Riverside.
• Our debt solutions for private equity investors and corporate borrowers, include; senior, uni-tranche and super senior facilities.

Working closely with our colleagues in Bank of Ireland Global Markets and Bank of Ireland Finance , the team can access a range of complementary products such as interest rate and exchange rate hedging instruments, cash management solutions, invoice discounting and other asset finance solutions to provide a tailored financing package.

• Our approach combines exceptional domestic market reach, leveraged finance structuring expertise and a full service corporate banking relationship offering.
• The strength of our domestic brand, coupled with Global Leveraged Finance colleagues in London, Paris, Frankfurt and the US provides us with a unique capacity to seamlessly execute transactions across multiple jurisdictions, making us the ideal banking partner for international private equity firms or debt advisors doing business in Ireland.
• Transactions range from small bi-lateral deals to large, multi-lender deals and recent structures include;
• Management buy-outs and buy-ins
• Leveraged buy-outs
• Re-capitalisations and Re-financings
• Shareholder re-organisations
• Domestic and international acquisitions and capital expansion.
• Public-to-privates
• Working capital finance