International Banking

Overview

Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking and Treasury has offices in nine locations worldwide – Dublin, Belfast, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Chicago, Los Angeles and Stamford, Connecticut.

Corporate Banking

Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking is the number 1* Corporate Bank in Ireland. We manage the sophisticated and diverse financial needs of major domestic and global companies. Our teams are located in Dublin, Belfast, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Chicago, Los Angeles and Stamford, Connecticut. Customer Relationships are our key priority and you will, at all times, have a dedicated relationship manager who is empowered to speak for and negotiate on behalf of Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking, drawing together the skills and expertise residing across our Group.

Treasury

Our Treasury business has responsibility for all market risk in Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Bonds and Derivatives and is responsible for the execution of the wholesale funding of Bank of Ireland’s balance sheet. Our highly successful Global Customer Group provides structured products, FX and Interest Rate product and payment solutions to the Bank’s extensive corporate and institutional customer base in Ireland, the UK and the US.

* Based on corporate lending information sourced from 1. publicly available annual reports for 2018, 2019 & 2020 for all Irish banks, 2. Bank of Ireland analysis of its banking relationships with the top 500 companies from the 2021 Irish Times Top 1,000 companies list and 3. Bank of Ireland analysis of its banking relationships with companies on the published listing of international companies setting up operations in RoI 2021.
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Head of Corporate Banking Ireland & NI - Corporate Banking
Michael Lauhoff
Head of Customer Products & Solutions - Global Markets
Kevin Twomey
Head of Property Finance Group - Corporate Banking
John Feeney
Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Corporate Banking
Peter Mullen
Ireland

From our Dublin office, we provide a comprehensive range of Corporate Banking and Treasury products and services.

Corporate Banking

We are the number 1* corporate bank in Ireland.  Our existing client base in Ireland ranges from large public bodies and major privately owned domestic companies to multinationals and publicly quoted companies.  We pride ourselves on our relationship banking model and it is through this model that we have developed an in-depth understanding of the individual needs of each of our Corporate Customers.  Our relationship teams in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Galway have a wealth of experience working with a variety of sectors.

Treasury

Our Treasury division has responsibility for all market risk in Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Bonds and Derivatives and is responsible for the execution of the wholesale funding of Bank of Ireland’s balance sheet.  Our highly successful Global Customer Group provides structured products, FX and Interest Rate product and payment solutions to the Bank’s extensive corporate and institutional customer base in Ireland, the UK and the US. Find out more about our Treasury Offering.

*Based on corporate lending information sourced from publicly available annual reports for 2018 for all Irish banks, BOI analysis of its banking relationships with companies from the 2019 Irish Times Top 500 companies list and BOI analysis of its banking relationships with companies on the published listing of international companies setting up operations in ROI 2019.

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Head of Property Finance Group - Corporate Banking
Paul McDonnell
Head of Corporate Banking Ireland & NI - Corporate Banking
Michael Lauhoff
Head of Customer Group - Global Markets
John Moclair
Head of Markets - Global Markets
David Tilson
Northern Ireland

Our team in Belfast provides a full range of banking and treasury services to Northern Ireland’s top tier Corporates.

Corporate Banking

Our success in Northern Ireland has been built on strong one-to-one relationships with our customers. Our strengths also lie in our proven sectoral expertise and an ability to deliver innovative, adaptable and tailored banking services and financing solutions.

We also have significant businesses of scale in Property Finance.  Our team of industry leading professionals have partnered with many of the prominent names in property across Northern Ireland, and enjoy a reputation for providing innovative and customised debt structures in a complex market. To find out more about our business click HERE.

Treasury

Through our Belfast dealing room, we provide a comprehensive range of treasury products and services.  In addition to our core products, we use innovative treasury techniques to develop customised solutions to help manage the impact of volatile market movements in exchange rates, interest rates, inflation or commodity costs.

Your eligible deposits held by a UK establishment of The Governor & Company of the Bank of Ireland are protected up to a total of £85,000 by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, the UK’s deposit guarantee scheme. Any deposits you hold above the limit are unlikely to be covered.

Please click here for further information or visit www.fscs.org.uk

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Director - Corporate Banking Northern Ireland
Paul Magee
Director, Property Finance Group - Northern Ireland
Craig Logan
Head of Global Markets - Corporate Banking NI
Henry Cleary
Corporate Client Services Manager - Northern Ireland
Paul Daly
United Kingdom

Through our London office, we provide a comprehensive range of banking services to the corporate market across several niche sectors.

Corporate Banking

Our team provides a range of banking services and funding solutions to the corporate market. We have significant businesses of scale in Acquisition Finance as well as Syndications and Agency capabilities and we work with several niche sectors including Technology, Media, Consumer, Industrial Manufacturing, Industrials, Business Services and Hotels.

Treasury

Through our London dealing rooms, we provide a comprehensive range of treasury products and services.  In addition to our core products, we use innovative treasury techniques to develop customised solutions to help manage the impact of volatile market movements in exchange rates, interest rates, inflation or commodity costs.

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Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Corporate Banking
Peter Mullen
Head of Customer Products & Solutions - Global Markets
Kevin Twomey
Head of Corporate Banking & Property - United Kingdom
Andrew Pendered
United States

Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking and Treasury has offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles and a branch in Stamford, Connecticut. Bank of Ireland obtained a US Banking License in July 2006 and commenced operations as a US branch in Stamford later that year. In addition, Bank of Ireland established representative offices in New York City and Chicago in 2008.

Bank of Ireland is committed to offering a strong and diversified range of products in the US. Our goal is to build quality, long-term relationships by delivering consistent and timely financing solutions for our customers. Our teams combine a breadth of financing products, tailored to the US markets, backed up by the capital and resources of a global financial institution in the following specialised fields:

Leveraged Acquisition Finance

Bank of Ireland’s US Leveraged Acquisition Finance group was formed in 2002. We are engaged in arranging and underwriting debt facilities in support of leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and capital expansions for private equity backed transactions. Financing products include senior secured cash flow facilities, second lien and mezzanine facilities, unitranche facilities as well as equity co-investments. Our US Capital Markets team facilitates the syndication of underwritten debt facilities and other capital raising activities. The Leveraged Acquisition Finance group also provides US Treasury facilitated hedging, swap and multicurrency funding capabilities to our private equity clients.

Corporate Banking

We offer Corporate Banking services from our branch in Stamford, Connecticut. We pride ourselves on our relationship banking model and it is through this model that we have developed an in-depth understanding of the individual needs of each of our Corporate Customers. Our areas of expertise are:

  • Multi-National Corporations
  • Investment Grade
  • Niche Lending

Treasury

Through our Stamford branch, we provide a comprehensive range of treasury products and services. In addition to our core products, we develop solutions, customized to your requirements. We will help you manage the impact of volatile market movements in exchange rates, interest rates, inflation or commodity costs on your business’ cash flows and overall profitability.

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For information about our sector specialists in United States

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Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - United States
Frank Cahill
Director - Corporate Banking, US
Ford Young
Country Manager - United States
Tony Dunne
France

L’équipe Financement d’Acquisitions de Bank of Ireland est solidement établie sur le marché Européen du Leveraged Finance, offrant des solutions de financements aux fonds d’investissement les plus renommés. La banque fait partie des Arrangeurs les plus actifs du marché.

Les équipes de Financement d’Acquisitions comptent plus de 100 professionnels repartis dans 6 bureaux en Europe et aux Etats-Unis arrangeant des transactions aussi bien en Irlande, au Royaume-Uni, en Europe Continentale que sur le marché nord américain. Bank of Ireland offre à ses clients une palette exhaustive de services, incluant notamment des financements Senior et subordonnés supportés par des équipes de Syndicated Finance.

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Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Corporate Banking
Peter Mullen
Head of Origination - France
Jerome Bonan
Germany

Seit 2006 hat die Bank of Ireland eine auf Akquisitionsfinanzierungen spezialisierte Niederlassung in Frankfurt und hat sich seit dem als ein führender Anbieter für Fremdfinanzierungslösungen bei Unternehmenskäufen am deutschsprachigen Markt etabliert. Das Team arbeitet grenzüberschreitend mit den Büros in Irland, UK, Frankreich und den USA zusammen und kann so auf die Expertise von über 100 Professionals zurückgreifen. Das umfangreiche Produktspektrum reicht von Senior- und Unitranche-Lösungen bis zu Second-Lien und Mezzanine Transaktionen, die als Club Deal oder auch als Underwriting strukturiert werden können. In den letzten 8 Jahren hat das deutsche Team Finanzierungen im Wert von über EUR 1 Milliarde für Private Equity Investoren zur Verfügung gestellt, die sich insgesamt auf über 30 Transaktionen aufteilen.

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Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Corporate Banking
Peter Mullen
Head of Acquisition Finance - Germany
Thomas Grau
Spain

Opened in 2019, our Madrid based Leveraged Acquisition Finance team are specialists in leveraged finance. With offices in Ireland, the UK, Spain, France, Germany and the US, Bank of Ireland Leveraged Acquisition Finance comprises over 90 dedicated professionals across a variety of sectors and has a loan book in excess of €5bn.

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Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Corporate Banking
Peter Mullen
Head of Acquisition Finance Spain - Corporate Banking
Beltran Paredes