Pharma and Irish inversions: Increasing your share price

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Pharma and Irish inversions: Increasing your share price

May 31 2014

A spate of recent examples indicates that inversion transactions are as popular as they have ever been, with Pfizer’s attempted deal with AstraZeneca highlighting that companies in the pharmaceuticals industry are increasingly using the inversion option. William Fry Tax Advisors, the Irish member firm of Taxand, look at why this is, and analyse why Ireland is proving to be the location of choice for newly-formed companies post-inversion.

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