Lagan Group

UK’s largest independent construction materials company said no agreement reached yet

Seen & Heard: Takeover talk about Lagan Group and Imagine telco seeks financing deal

Profits from joint ventures increase 15-fold for Belfast-based Lagan brothers

Construction firm accepts there was no basis for any claim for deceit or fraud

Debt at the centre of the winding up petition relates to a judgment against firm over pyrite used in a building in Ballymun in Dublin

Loan given to James Elliott Construction by Ballymun Regeneration for remedial work

Commercial court refuses application to fast-track wind-up petition on Irish Asphalt

Move part of dispute between JEC and Irish Asphalt over material with excessive pyrite

Peter Murtagh on the threads that link rival US funds, Northern politicians, legal firms and middlemen to the property sell-off that cost the State hundreds of millions

Quarries with combined market value of more than €10 million to be sold by tender

Deal will see Lagan’s workforce grow to more than 900

Fortunes of struggling Navan Retail Park look better with arrival of crowd-pulling retailer

Almost 70 attacks have been carried out at companies once owned by the Quinn Group in an apparent campaign to prevent their sale

Company says no business can operate when threats put workers and directors at risk

OFT Considering whether deal falls under its jurisdiction

Merger talks with Lagan failed