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Insider Northern Ireland Dealmakers Awards 2025
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21/03/2025
Business editor Phil Cunliffe reports from the Insider Northern Ireland Dealmakers Awards held at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. A record, sell-out attendance saw awards being presented to members of the NI corporate finance community.
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So here we are at the Europa Hotel in the middle of Belfast for the Northern Ireland
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Dealmakers Awards. Really excited to be here again to be presenting and rewarding awards
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to the incredible work that's been done in Northern Ireland over the last 12 months.
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There's fantastic winners and a short list of businesses here this evening. We're a sell-out
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and we're really looking forward to a really good fun evening. So
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I'll be interviewing some of the winners and the sponsors later on.
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So I'm here with John Clark of our headline sponsor LBC. John, thank you very much for
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being part of it. Really exciting night. Why is it so important for LBC to be here and
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supporting these awards? Well first of all let me just say delighted to be here tonight. Thank
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you for inviting us to be the headline sponsor tonight. I think as much as anything else we're
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increasingly recognising the quality of the businesses that we're seeing in Northern Ireland.
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We spend a lot of time out here meeting local businesses, local management teams and local
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advisors. We always come away really really impressed with what we've seen and we're very
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much keen to invest and support businesses in the local market. We've invested in the region
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historically. We've thankfully been quite successful in the businesses that we've bought
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to the people that we've met. I'm super keen to do more. There's tons of talent in the room tonight.
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We've been chatting to people just in the bars around town beforehand. Loads of enthusiasm
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about the region and what Ireland's got to offer. I'm delighted to be here. So I'm here with Alan
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one of our esteemed judges. Thank you very much for being part of the judging panel Alan.
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Tell us how you thought the quality of the submissions were this year. It's a fantastic
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evening with really quality teams coming forward and a lot of excellent deals. Surprising some of
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the deals that you don't realise what's going on quietly in the background and it was just great
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to be part of the whole evening. Thank you very much. Yeah it's really special buzz in the
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atmosphere today. More people than they've seen in years before. Brilliant. Thanks Alan.
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So I'm here with Nessa Quigley, head of the Carlton MacDowell law firm of the year.
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Congratulations Nessa. Brilliant result for the team. What's been special about 2024 for the team
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and you? It's been such a big busy year. A lot of large transactions and it's just great to get the
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recognition especially for the team because everybody works really hard, pulls together
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and you know we do it for our clients so it's good to see external people you know
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recognise the efforts that we've gone through. So yeah I'm really delighted. And the sort of
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atmosphere in the room is really great. It's packed, absolutely packed tonight. Barely room to
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get up to the stage so it was great. The insider deal team did a really good job and it's you know
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I thought the compare was great, very funny and the right mix of funny and serious. And cheeky.
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And cheeky yeah so I think he went down well so it was really good. I can hear it's still going on
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so it's yeah good night. Thank you Nessa. Congratulations again. Thanks. So I'm here with
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Charlie Curlin of Grant Thornton, our Dealmaker of the Year. Charlie congratulations. What's your
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reaction to winning the award? Yes thanks Philip. Great night and I'd say great night for the team
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as well. So fantastic result and very pleased to be standing and holding the award. Yeah and GT won
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the Corporate Finance Advisory Team of the Year as well so that must be a double win. It's great
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for the team. Yeah and obviously a big part of winning this award is from the team and the team
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contribution and certainly the clients that we're dealing with as well. It's been a tremendous year
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and dealing with a lot of very very interesting transactions so I was really really pleased to
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win both awards tonight. And a successful 2025 in prospect. Yes 25 off to a good start so
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again another significant transaction. Got over the line HSL deal to Oscar Healthcare so that's a
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good one for 2025 and hopefully more more to come. Absolutely. Charlie congratulations again.
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Have a good rest of the night. Thank you very much Philip. Thank you.
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