Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Public Accounts Committee
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency
1:20 pm
Mr. Brendan McDonagh:
In that instance we took 20% of the equity. That was a credit committee decision. We believed there was some potential upside in the portfolio and the best way to achieve a higher price for the portfolio was to take a 20% stake. That was a purely commercial decision which went through an assessment by internal people who are bankers and corporate finance professionals. A recommendation went to the credit committee which could have rejected or accepted it.
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