WE ARE FIREBREAK
Firebreak is a hospitality-focussed
business operating in four distinct areas:
- Hospitality Management.
- Consultation and advisory services to hospitality businesses.
- Acquisition of hospitality assets.
- Hotel Development
Since 2010 Firebreak has been working with distressed enterprises, helping stakeholders to achieve successful turnaround. This has involved working closely and extensively with all stakeholders, including receivers, banks, owners, investors, developers and those holding – or acquiring - outstanding loans leveraged on properties involved.
Firebreak’s success in these areas comes from the specific expertise represented on the team, which includes operational, financial and development experience in the hospitality sector, and corporate finance experience across a range of industries
OUR TEAM
Adrian Shanagher
Adrian holds a BSc (Management) from Trinity College Dublin. Adrian cut his teeth in Ernst and Young, Dublin, where he spent eight years, becoming a fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in the process. He then spent two years at Dolmen Corporate Finance and Ion Equity, before taking up the position of Managing Director at Capital Bars, where he spent 9 years. In 2010, Adrian left to pursue his vision for Firebreak, which he continues to lead and build.
Mary Staunton
Mary has been in the hotel business since 1993 having worked with the International Hotel Group, Forte, Fitzpatrick Hotel Group, The Heritage Hotel Group and The Morrison. From 2012 to 2014 Mary took on two individual short term projects at the Beresford Hotel and Druids Glen. Mary worked as Cluster Revenue Director for Tetrarch Hospitality from 2014 until February 2016. Mary's area of expertise is Revenue/Yield Management and ecommerce.
Hugo Pinto
Hugo graduated with an IT degree from the Universidade do Minho in Portugal in 2000. He started his career at Sheraton Hotel and Pine Cliffs Resort, a luxury collection hotel by Starwood and moved to Ireland in 2008, where he continued his experience with Dalata and their Maldron Hotel in Cardiff Lane, Dublin. Subsequently Hugo became General Manager at Beresford Hotel, Ocean Bar, Lismore House Hotel and Clonmel Park before joining Firebreak.
WHAT WE DO
- identifying acquisition opportunities on behalf of our clients
- assessing and evaluating hospitality assets that are
underperforming, and providing strategies and
recommendations - devising, implementing and managing turnaround strategies and financial modelling for distressed hospitality enterprises.
- assisting clients with due diligence and the bidding process, in the acquisition of hospitality assets
- implementing organisational change, including the installation of new management teams and structures
- the management and operation of hospitality assets
- the optimisation of purchasing and labour costs
- helping with all aspects of opening or re-launching a hospitality
- business, including development, refurbishment, market re-positioning and re-branding.
In addition, Firebreak seeks suitable properties in which to invest.
Firebreak’s extensive experience, in both finance and hospitality, puts us in an ideal position to identify unexploited opportunities and areas of under performance within a business.
This in turn enables us to rationalise or optimise, as appropriate, to create viable businesses that are ready to thrive. We achieve this in a number of ways, including:
