Madison Dearborn

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The K Club in Co Kildare: 550-acre estate features a hotel and golf course. Photograph: Eric Luke
K Club availability has attracted 100 initial prospective buyers

About 100 prospective buyers, many from Asia and the US, have expressed interest in the K Club since its owner, businessman Michael Smurfit, put the h(...)

Located in Staffan, Co Kildare, the K Club has a 134-bedroom hotel and two 18-hole championship golf courses designed by major-winning US professional, Arnold Palmer.
Michael Smurfit offers K Club for sale at €80m

Businessman Michael Smurfit is putting the K-Club golf resort and hotel up for sale for €80 million. Mr Smurfit and the K Club are fighting a high-pr(...)

Dermot Smurfit: owns about 15 per cent of Powerflute’s shares. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Smurfit brothers set for €77m payout in Powerflute takeover

Paper packaging entrepreneurs Michael Smurfit and Dermot Smurfit are poised to receive £65.6 million (€77.2 million) as a US private equity firm looks(...)

Dermot Smurfit .Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons / THE IRISH TIMES
Powerflute embarks on the acquisition trail

Powerflute, the Finnish paper and packaging firm part-owned by Smurfit brothers Michael and Dermot, is on the lookout for bolt-on acquisitons after po(...)

Michael Smufit was also acting as an adviser to Madison Dearborn on its bid for the Finnish based company Powerflute. (Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times)
Smurfit brothers lose out as Powerflute ends takeover talks

Brothers Michael Smurfit and Dermot Smurfit are to miss out on a £91 million pay day, after the Finnish based paper and packaging company said on Mon(...)

Dr Michael Smurfit: he and his brother Dermot could gain after US private equity outfit Madison Dearborn indicated it may bid for Finnish paper company Powerflute Oyj. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Smurfits in line for €126m payday from Madison Dearborn bid

Brothers Michael Smurfit and Dermot Smurfit, the two most senior members of Ireland’s best-known corporate dynasty, look set for a major payout of ab(...)