How Ireland attracts private equity as global investment markets falter

Ireland is bucking global investment trends, drawing private equity and cross-border capital

The volume of deal activity indicates that Ireland is holding up well above the global norm.

The world is all rather mad right now and that is impacting the investment market. Yet Ireland has managed to buck the global trend. For all the troubles that seem to be popping up across the map, Ireland is still very attractive to private equity and institutional capital.

Indeed, private equity back buyers are becoming more aggressive in the Irish market while Ireland has become a mix of a target market for cross-border capital and a launchpad for it into the EU.