Managing Director

Robert Adams

Chartered Accountant
Experience in M&A for more than 10 years. Involved in mid-corporate national and international deals.

Leader of the Construction & Real Este Industry Group and member of the Business Services Industry Group.

Industry expertise:

Energy & renewables; Financial services; Leisure.

Director

Martin Higgins

Commercial experience at C suite levels within various European multinationals.
Experience in M&A for more than 10 years. Involved in mid-corporate national and international deals.
Industry expertise in Retail, Technology, Ag Tech, and Renewables.

Industry expertise:

Energy & renewables; Information technology; Retail and franchising.

Director

Alan Kelly

Chartered Accountant.
Experience in M&A for more than 15 years.
Involved in >mid-corporate national and international deals.
Industry expertise having worked in Commercial Roles in Technology, Distribution & Logistics in international companies.

Co-leader of the Healthcare, Biotech & Pharma Industry Group 

Industry expertise:

Business services; Clean technology; Education and training; Electronics; Energy & renewables; Healthcare; Information technology; Telecom; Transport & logistics.

Associate Director

Brian Barrett

With 13 years of strategic and commercial experience working with SMEs, large corporates, and semi-state bodies, Brian is a leading corporate finance advisor. His expertise is helping companies to achieve their strategic ambitions and prepare for significant value events.

Member of the Agri, Food & Beverages Industry Group.

Industry experience:

Building & construction; Business services; Electronics; Energy & renewables; Financial services;  Hotels & restaurants; Leisure; Media, printing and publishing; Telecom; Transport & logistics.

Manager

Owen Hackett

Working experience at Deloitte & Touche and Grant Thornton.
Experience in M&A, transaction services, advisory, and restructuring for more than 5 years.

Member of IT, Software, and Technology M&A Worldwide Industry Group.

Industry expertise:

Healthcare; Information technology; Leisure; Retail and franchising.

Senior Manager

Barry Madden

Degree from the University of Limerick in Accounting & Finance. Chartered Accountant.
Working experience in PwC. Experience in M&A and valuation >3 years.

Industry expertise:

Energy & renewables; Healthcare; Leisure; Real estate & facility management; Retail and franchising; Transport & logistics.

Manager

Hazel Slattery

 Worked in Corporate Finance for over 9 years, gaining experience across a broad range of areas including funding, debt advisory, and mergers & acquisitions. Hazel’s client base includes SME’s, corporates, and high net worth individuals, spread across a variety of sectors such as construction, etc.

Industry experience:

Agriculture; Building & construction; Electronics; Energy & renewables; Hotels & restaurants; Plastics; Recycling; Retail and franchising.

Member of the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Group.

Advisor Corporate Finance

Dermot Brennan

Four years of working experience at PWC Ireland in the International and Domestic Business department.
Joined MAWW Dublin in 2019.

Industry expertise:

Automotive; Food; Healthcare; Telecom.

Senior Manager

Orla Devlin

Master in Finance and Capital Markets.
Universities in Dublin, Ireland.
Master Thesis on the effect of stop-loss strategies on hedge fund indices.
5 years of commercial experience in operations and e-commerce.
Joined Focus Capital Partners in 2017.

Industry experience:

Financial services.

Associate Director

Johnny Dillon

Johnny has 10 years’ experience in corporate finance and advisory roles. Since joining the firm in 2013, Johnny has managed several of Focus’ key transactions. Johnny has managed €150M of refinance transactions across numerous sectors including the property, retail, leisure, and food & beverage sectors.

Expertise:

Beverages; Food; Leisure; Real estate & facility management.

Members Consumer & Retail Industry Group.

Director Renewables and Infrastructure

Jack O’Keefe

Extensive background in banking, funding, investments and corporate finance across a broad range of sectors. Jack held senior executive positions in many Irish financial institutions both in Ireland and overseas and led and executed transactions ranging in size from €5 to €100m. Now primarily focused on the Renewable Energy, Infrastructure and Sustainability sectors.
In recent years, he has been involved in several fundraisings covering equity and debt. He has an established network across private, family office and institutional investors which enables alternative funding solutions & investment insights to many clients and efficiently matches investors with projects & promoters.
He has taken deals from initiation, and structuring to full execution across property, social housing, renewable energy & hospitality sectors and gained extensive knowledge in these particular areas and has led innovative fundraising transactions for a number of clients across different jurisdictions.

Industry experience:

Agriculture; Energy & renewables; Financial services.

Leader of Energy, Environment & Cleantech Industry Group.

Marketing Coordinatos

Anwesha Ghoshal

I support FOCUS’s marketing initiatives by planning, implementing, and monitoring marketing campaigns. I oversee, help execute and coordinate workflows for programs across content on social media (LinkedIn) and other channels like newsletters, articles, blogs, etc. I also organise marketing events such as conferences, webinars, charity events, etc.

Managing Director - Equity

John O’Sullivan

John is a Managing Director of Equity at Focus Capital with responsibility for capital raising, family offices and growth capital / PE funds. John has 20+ years of investment experience in private equity, venture capital and private debt. Previously John was Chief Investment Officer, an Investment Committee member, and Co Head of Ireland at Beechbrook Capital. He was a founding member of Beechbrook Capital Ireland taking the business through the regulatory journey, fund raising first and final closes and then deployment of the fund.
For 10 years John was Senior Vice-President at Enterprise Ireland co-managing the direct equity portfolio, primarily responsible for late-stage venture and PE deals in high growth companies. John has worked on 7 IPOs, 100+ exits and 300+ syndicated transactions.
He has gained a wide range of experience across many sectors including technology, Pharma, Medical devices and other high growth industries, working closely with founders, funds and professional management teams.
John is a regular panellist over the last 14+ years at leading European PE and VC conferences where he has built a network of contacts across funds, institutions and family offices.

Industry experience:

Aerospace & defence; Business services; Energy & renewables; Life sciences.

Head of Debt Advisory

Michael Lalor

Michael has 25 years of experience in Financial Services and previously led HSBC’s Corporate Banking business in Ireland. Michael will primarily be involved in debt financing and enhancing our product offering in this area, covering Mid to Large Corporates, Real Estate and PLC clients.

Industry experience:

Agriculture; Beverages; Building & Construction; Education and training; Energy & renewables; Engineering; Food; Government; Healthcare; Hotels & Restaurants; Information technology; Life sciences; Plastics; Recycling; Retail and franchising; Security.

Managing Director

Eoin O’Keeffe

Eoin has over 18 years’ experience assisting privately owned business across Ireland and the UK access debt and equity markets. Eoin has extensive debt advisory experience having spent over 10 years in corporate banking environments in both Dublin and London. More recently Eoin has worked in professional services firms advising companies in MBOs, Trade Sales and Private Equity transactions
Eoin has built strong deal experience across a wide variety of sectors including insurance, logistics, technology and business services. Eoin’s experience opens access to private equity and financial institutions across Ireland and the UK helping business owners achieve their long term strategic objectives.

Industry experience:

Building & construction; Information technology; Insurance; Telecom.

Managing Director

Donal Cantillon

Donal holds an MBA, a BSc. Finance Degree and is a Chartered Accountant with c.20 years of banking and commercial/corporate finance experience working with SMEs, large corporates, and semi state bodies.
His expertise is in the area commercial finance solutions helping companies to achieve their financing and long term strategic aims.
During his career, Donal has worked across and successfully completed many transactions in various sectors including retail, hospitality & leisure, healthcare, manufacturing, engineering, technology, logistics, renewables, and property.

Industry experience:

Advertising, PR & marketing; Agriculture; Automotive; Business services; Chemicals; Engineering; Financial services; Healthcare; Hotels & restaurants; Information technology; Leisure; Real estate & facility management; Recycling; Retail and franchising; Telecom; Trade; Transport & logistics.

Manager

Ruairi McEntee

Ruairi joined Focus Capital Partners in 2022 and has worked on a number of Equity and M&A transactions to date.
Ruairi arrived at Focus Capital Partners having spent 3 years in PwC’s audit department (International and Domestic Business) working on a range of clients from large tech firms to smaller indigenous companies. After PwC, Ruairi spent 2 years abroad working in Financial Accounting roles in a couple of ASX listed companies and on his return to Ireland, worked as a Financial Accountant for one of the largest vehicle distributors in the Country.
Ruairi qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2017 having graduated from UCD with a BComm and subsequently completed the Msc in Accounting in DCU.

Industry experience:

Automotive; Business services; Retail and franchising.

Senior Manager

George Hardie

George holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Modern Languages from Newcastle University and is a Chartered Accountant. Prior to joining Focus Capital Partners in October 2022, George was part of the Corporate Finance team in Grant Thornton Ireland after having moved from the Transaction Advisory Services Team at the Grant Thornton London office in 2019.

George specialises in M&A advisory. He has significant experience in successfully executing transactions and providing a range of other transaction services, primarily in due diligence and capital markets assignments and to a lesser extent in company valuations and independent business reviews. George has gained substantial experience in various industries in his corporate finance career to date including in the technology, engineering, pharmaceuticals and food and beverage sectors.

Industry experience:

Agriculture; Beverages; Building & Construction; Engineering; Financial services; Food; Healthcare; Hotels & Restaurants; Information technology; Leisure; Media, printing and publishing; Real estate & facility management; Retail and franchising.

Executive

Owen Lloyd

Joined Focus Capital Partners in 2022 having previously spent over 3 years with Ernst & Young global reporting COE working with large US-based multinationals. Hold a bachelor of Animal Science from UCD and Purdue University (Indiana USA) and qualified as a chartered accountant in 2022. Mainly working on equity and M&A jobs across the Agriculture and renewable energy sectors.

Industry experience:

Agriculture; Clean technology; Energy & renewables; Healthcare.

Member of Energy, Environment & Cleantech Industry Group.