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Aaron Boyle

Aaron’s practice is focused on the areas of infrastructure, procurement, PPP and project finance. Aaron heads up the Energy, Planning, Infrastructure and Construction Group in Arthur Cox. He has been centrally involved in key infrastructure projects in Ireland for a number of years, particularly in the areas of telecoms, health, education, transport and energy. Aaron has extensive commercial experience advising on a range of contracts and sectors including PPP, concessions, managed service, framework, logistics and ICT. As part of Aaron’s procurement practice, he advises on the defence to procurement challenges and also promotes the rights of bidders. · Infrastructure

Aiden Small

Aiden is a partner in the Finance Group and leads the Debt Capital Markets team. He specialises in structured finance, securitisation, credit structures/CLOs, and private funds transactions. Aiden’s clients include arrangers, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, and institutional investors. Prior to joining Arthur Cox, Aiden worked for a number of years in London with Allen & Overy, UBS, and Morgan Stanley. · Debt Capital Markets

Ailish Finnerty

Ailish is a partner in our Tax Group, and is also Chair of the firm. She specialises in corporate tax with a particular focus on tax planning for international clients doing business in and through Ireland. Ailish acts for a broad range of international clients including financial institutions, multi-national corporations, private equity houses and hedge funds as well as growth and emerging companies, particularly in the life sciences and technology sectors. She has advised numerous US clients on establishing operations in Ireland and has extensive experience in intangibles planning in and through Ireland. Ailish advises on the tax aspects of a wide variety of transactions, including leasing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations and corporate restructurings, inward investment projects, securitisations and all forms of structured financing. She also has extensive experience in tax controversy matters including mutual agreement procedures (MAP) and other dispute resolution mechanics in international taxation. · Tax

Aisling Kelly

Aisling is a partner in the Finance Group at Arthur Cox, specialising in debt capital markets, securitisation and structured finance transactions. Aisling advises on bond issues, RMBS, CMBS, CLO and other securitisation structures, private funds and other structured finance transactions. Aisling regularly acts for clients on the acquisition and financing of Irish loan portfolios and on bridge and warehouse financing arrangements and securitisation take-outs. Aisling also advises on regulatory issues impacting structured finance vehicles, including the Securitisation Regulation, as well as issues relevant to listing (including the Market Abuse Regulation, Transparency Directive, Prospectus Regulation and other securities law obligations). · Debt Capital Markets

Alan Taylor

Consultant · Corporate / M&A

Alastair Todd

Partner · Real Estate

Amelia Walsh

Amelia is Of Counsel in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group, specialising in financial services litigation and regulatory intervention and investigations, as well as statutory appeals and judicial review. Amelia has particular expertise in advising financial institutions, pensions, and professional service providers in relation to high-profile regulatory investigations, crisis-management, and information governance processes, and related forensic data reviews. She also has extensive experience in advising, and acting for, regulated firms, statutory and government entities, private and public companies in the financial services, energy and retail sectors in respect of all aspects of the litigation process, as well as dispute prevention and alternative dispute resolution processes. Amelia regularly deals with multi-party and multi-jurisdictional disputes before the Commercial List of the High Court and leads large-scale and complex discovery and data review processes. Amelia is a trusted adviser to many of the firm’s key clients including Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank Ireland DAC, RBS, Veridian/Energia Group, Britvic Ireland Limited, Eirgrid, Gas Networks Ireland, Flutter Entertainment plc, and Further Capital Global Management. · Litigation

Amy McDermott

Amy is a partner in our Corporate and M&A Group. Amy advises Irish and multinational public and private companies on all aspects of corporate and commercial law across a range of industries and sectors. Amy’s key areas of expertise are domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, loan portfolio sales, joint ventures, venture capital and private equity transactions. Amy is adept at handling cross-jurisdictional matters and has particular experience in transactions and advisory work in the renewable energy, infrastructure and financial services sectors · Corporate / M&A

Andrew Lenny

Andy is a consultant in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group. Andy advises on a wide range of commercial disputes, through conciliation, mediation and arbitration, as well as through traditional litigation. He specialises in advising on disputes relating to competition/anti-trust matters, data and privacy, professional negligence, banking and financial services, company acquisitions/sales and joint ventures, commercial contracts and insurance and reinsurance contracts. He has extensive experience in both international and domestic commercial arbitration, including under the UNCITRAL, ICC, AAA and LCIA Rules. Andy also has extensive experience in acting on behalf of entities who are subject to investigation by regulators including the Central Bank of Ireland and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. · Litigation

Ben Rayner

Ben is Of Counsel in the Debt Finance Group and advises financial institutions, sponsors, funds and corporates on a range of domestic and cross-border financings. Ben has extensive experience advising lenders, borrowers and sponsors on a variety of financing transactions, including fund financing (subscription, asset backed and hybrid facilities), leveraged and acquisition financing and corporate lending. Prior to joining Arthur Cox, Ben worked for international law firms in London and has experience on secondment to the legal teams of an alternative asset manager and an investment bank. · Debt Finance

Brian O\'Rourke

Brian is a partner in our Real Estate Group and advises on all aspects of commercial real estate (CRE), with a particular focus on the hospitality, energy, office and residential (including BTR/PRS) sectors. Brian has extensive experience on all manner of transactions, including: investment, development, finance, asset management and corporate (M&A) deals. His clients include private equity firms, corporates, family offices, lenders and state bodies. · Real Estate

Bridget Clinton

Bridget is a senior associate in the Competition and Regulated Markets Group. · Competition

Cahal Carvill

Partner · Construction & Engineering

Catriona Gibson

Chair, Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution Group, Northern Ireland · Dispute Resolution

Chris Fullerton

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Chris Ritchie

Partner · Litigation

Christopher McLaughlin

Chris is a partner in the Corporate and M&A Group. Chris specialises in corporate finance, advising international and domestic listed, public and private companies on all aspects of company law, including on compliance and governance issues. He has extensive experience of advising on corporate migrations to Ireland, public takeovers and schemes of arrangement, ECM transactions and private equity. Prior to joining the firm, Chris trained and worked in London, most recently in the London office of a leading US law firm. · Corporate / M&A

Cian Beecher

Cian is a partner in our Employment Law Group. He is a former in-house counsel, with over 20 years’ experience advising on all aspects of employment and industrial relations law. Cian advises our clients on all issues that arise from the employer-employee/ employer-trade union relationship. Cian’s focus is on practical and effective strategies, providing clear, straightforward and practical advice. · Employment

Cian McCourt

Cian specialises in mergers and acquisitions, advising on public and private transactions as well as corporate finance and equity capital markets transactions. Cian has experience advising on domestic and cross border transactions in a number of industries including the pharma/healthcare, financial services, energy and technology sectors as well as advising on corporate migrations, holding company structures, schemes of arrangement and cross border mergers. Cian has extensive experience in public M&A and has advised international clients and boards of directors on investing in Ireland and Irish based acquisitions including advising on some of the largest and most high-profile public transactions in Irish corporate history. Prior to joining Arthur Cox Cian was a partner in another leading Irish law firm and spent a number of years based in London and New York. In this video, Cian reflects on the professional milestones in his career to date. Cian discusses the importance of mentorship, changes in the legal industry and reflects on the advice he would give his younger self. · Corporate / M&A

Ciara Buckley

Ciara is a partner in our Debt Finance Group. She trained and qualified as a solicitor with Allen & Overy in London, spending over four years in their Real Estate and Corporate Finance Group. Ciara has extensive experience advising clients across a broad range of domestic and international financings including real estate financing, acquisition financing, fund financing, corporate restructurings, syndicated lending, margin loans and ESG financing. Her particular focus is real estate and development finance, advising lenders (traditional and alternative), private equity funds and other investors in respect of both senior and mezzanine positions for investment, development, commercial, residential, hotel, student housing and forward fund financings. · Debt Finance

Ciara Dooley

Ciara is Of Counsel in our Construction and Engineering Group. She has extensive knowledge in advising clients on a broad range of both contentious and non-contentious construction and public procurement related matters. · Construction & Engineering

Ciara White

Ciara is a senior associate in the Real Estate Group since March 2020, having practised in the UK for a number of years previously. Ciara has significant experience advising on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions across all real estate sectors (office, industrial, PRS/BTR, hospitality and retail) with particular focus on portfolio and single-asset acquisitions & disposals, commercial leasing, forward-fund and forward purchase development agreements, property finance, corporate mergers and acquisitions and landlord & tenant issues/asset management. Ciara has been a key deal team member on several headline property transactions, managing a large number of team members, large volumes of due diligence and contract negotiations. Ciara also regularly collaborates with colleagues across the Firm on a variety of cross-border and domestic deals, including but not limited to, corporate M & A, property finance, loan sales and renewable energy projects · Real Estate

Colin Kavanagh

Colin is a Partner in the Corporate and M&A Group. He is head of the firm’s Life Sciences Group, Media, Entertainment and Sports Group, and Communications Group. Colin provides corporate, commercial, regulatory and intellectual property advice across a range of industries but in particular the life sciences, food, beverage, agri-business, media, telecoms, sports, entertainment and technology sectors. Colin advises those and other industries on mergers, acquisitions and investments, cross-border tax and intellectual property re-organisations, post-acquisition integrations and corporate treasury activities. Colin advises on the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts and arrangements a across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on IP based industries. Colin also advises on the regulation of the life sciences and media industries in Ireland. · Corporate / M&A

Colin Rooney

Colin is Head of our Technology and Innovation Group. He advises on data protection and privacy, information technology, outsourcing, cloud computing, and e-business matters. Colin has extensive experience advising domestic and international clients on information management issues, with his data protection and information technology practice covering all aspects of data processing across all industry sectors. His practice also has a strong emphasis on commercial IT agreements. Colin is a frequent speaker on data protection and freedom of information topics, including at the Data Protection Leadership Forum, which the Group launched in 2019. He is also a frequent contributor to various legal journals on the above-mentioned topics. · Data Protection & Privacy

Colm McElroy

Partner · Banking & Finance

Connor Manning

Connor practices in the area of corporate law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Connor’s M&A experience includes both public and private transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, reorganisations and joint ventures, both domestic and cross border and in various industries. Connor’s corporate finance experience includes representation of issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings including IPOs and secondary offerings. He also advises on corporate governance, commercial agreements and inward investments. · Corporate / M&A

Conor McCarthy

Conor is a partner in the Corporate and M&A Group and Head of the London office. Conor advises public and private industry-leading Irish and international corporates and investors on their complex cross-border M&A transactions, all aspects of Irish company law and equity capital markets transactions. Conor advises clients across a variety of business and industry sectors including construction, aviation, financial services, healthcare and energy. Conor advises clients on a wide range of corporate transactions including M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate finance transactions, cross border mergers, corporate reorganisations and general corporate/commercial law matters. Conor also advises both issuers and banks in relation to equity capital markets transactions. Conor regularly works with his litigation colleagues in advising parties to complex shareholder and other commercial disputes. Conor has advised on some of the most high profile Irish M&A and equity capital markets transactions in recent years. Conor joined the firm in 2014 from Linklaters LLP in London. · Corporate / M&A

Cormac Commins

Cormac is a partner in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group. He specialises in the establishment and operation of all types of regulated investment funds. He also advises on the establishment and ongoing regulatory obligations of providers to funds, including management companies, administrators and depositories. Cormac has over 30 years’ experience in the funds industry, the first five of which were in an in-house position with a global funds provider, with the remainder spent in practice with another Irish law firm where he was a senior partner in the asset management and investment funds unit. Cormac is a former Chair of the Irish Funds Legal and Regulatory Specialist Group, and a member of the European Fund and Asset Management Association Legal Steering Group. He is also a past Chair of the Irish Funds UCITS Regulation and Innovation Working Group, a past Chair of the Irish Funds Marketing Working Group, a past member of the Irish Funds Trustee Working Group and Irish Funds Brexit Working Group. · Investment Funds

Cormac Kissane

Cormac Kissane is a partner in the firm’s Finance Department and the Capital Markets Group. · Banking & Finance

Daniel Watters

Daniel is a partner in our Pensions and Employee Benefits Group. Daniel specialises in pensions law, advising employers and pension scheme trustees on the establishment and day-to-day running of occupational pension schemes (both funded and unfunded / pay as you go schemes), scheme restructurings, liability management exercises and scheme wind-ups. Daniel also advises on all pensions aspects of corporate transactions, including share sales and asset and business transfers. Daniel has broad experience in pensions litigation and has advised extensively on contentious matters between employers and trustees in the context of internal dispute resolution procedures and appeals to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman. He has experience in the area of investment funds and regulation and also advises on all aspects of regulatory change for the pensions industry including pension scheme compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, the European IORP II Directive, the Digital Operational Resilience Act and the new government Auto Enrolment regime. Daniel sits on the Council of the Association of Pension Lawyers in Ireland. · Pensions & Employee Benefits

Danielle Conaghan

Danielle is a partner in the Environment and Planning Group and is a founder member of the firm’s Food and Agribusiness Group. Danielle has a broad-based projects and infrastructure practice. She has more than 19 years’ projects experience in Ireland, advising on the full ‘life cycle’ of largescale project delivery; securing consents, financing, constructing and operating, and on all contentious and on-contentious planning and environmental issues. She is a Board member of Wind Energy Ireland, a Council member of the Marine Renewables Industry Association and a member of the Environmental Policy Committee of IBEC. She is a member of the Net Zero Committee of Wind Energy Ireland. She sits on the Environment and Planning Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. She is also a member of the Energy Law Group of some 500 leading lawyers in the energy sector in Europe and Africa (Arthur Cox is the sole Irish representative law firm in this network). She is ranked as a ‘Leading Individual’ in environmental and planning law and maintains an excellent reputation as one of Ireland’s top lawyers in this space and the leading lawyer in the renewables sector in particular. She has been centrally involved in almost all of the largest, most complex and first-of-a kind infrastructure projects in Ireland for many years, particularly in the areas of energy, renewables, food and agriculture, telecoms, manufacturing, digital infrastructure, health and education. · Environment & Planning

Dara Harrington

Dara is a Partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds Group and heads the firm’s Finance Group. He provides expert guidance to fund sponsors/GPs, investment managers/advisers, fund service providers and investors on the formation and operation of all types of investment funds and transactions, specialising in both private and public market strategies. He is a member and former Chair of the Irish Funds Private Assets Working Group, a role in which he is leading engagement by industry with the Central Bank of Ireland and the Department of Finance on enhancements to the private asset funds regime in Ireland. · Asset Management

Darragh Geraghty

Darragh is a partner in the firm’s Finance Group and has broad experience of a diverse range of financing transactions including development, fund, real estate, warehouse, acquisition and deleveraging transactions. Darragh acts for both borrowers and funders, with a particular emphasis on borrower clients and on private equity and investment bank funder clients. He has also advised a wide range of clients on the buy-side and the sell-side of portfolio acquisition transactions (both performing and non-performing). · Banking & Finance

David Black

Partner - Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations · Litigation

David Kilty

David is a partner in the Tax Group and provides advice across all tax heads on a broad range of commercial matters. David regularly advises clients including Irish and international PLCs, domestic and international banks, semi-State bodies, private equity houses and private Irish companies. David works with corporate clients on mergers & acquisitions, corporate migrations, restructurings, re-organisations and IP structuring. In addition, David has significant experience advising on transactions in the financial services sector, working with a number of lenders, arrangers and issuers on structured finance transactions such as CLOs, CMBS/RMBS and receivables financings. He also works with clients on resolving tax disputes and on structuring real estate transactions. · Tax

David Molloy

David is a partner in and Head of the firm’s Debt Finance Group. David specialises in domestic and cross-border finance transactions. David advises lenders, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies and corporates across a wide range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions and has extensive experience in advising lenders on their restructuring and enforcement options. These transactions include real estate and development finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, investment grade, fund finance and corporate lending. · Banking & Finance

David Vos

David is a partner in the Corporate and M&A Group, specialising in public and private M&A, equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance and securities law. David advises international and domestic companies as well as state and semi-state bodies on all aspects of corporate law and governance. He has advised on some of the most high-profile corporate transactions in recent years, including public takeovers, private M&A, rights issues, placings and other public offerings, holding company structures, schemes of arrangement and joint ventures. David also advises on corporate governance and securities law issues for listed companies. David has particular experience in public takeovers, having advised on a number of high-profile recommended and contested/hostile takeovers in recent years, and equity capital markets, where he advises both issuers and banks. · Corporate / M&A

David White

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Deirdre Barrett

Deirdre has extensive experience in commercial real estate across all asset classes and with a particular focus on data centres, offices, PRS, retail, hospitality and healthcare. Deirdre advises clients across the full spectrum of real estate transactions including forward commitments and forward funding, portfolio and single-asset acquisitions and disposals, financing, landlord and tenant, development and asset management. She has advised our most high profile domestic and international investors on the largest real estate investment, leasing and financing transactions of recent years and has also advised various Irish state and semi-state bodies and, currently, a G7 state. Deirdre has, during the course of her career, headed up one of our real estate teams, has served two terms on our partnership policy committee and holds various other firm roles including pro bono partner, member of our sustainability committee and our conflicts management committee and chair of our data centre sectoral group. · Real Estate

Deirdre Cummins

Deirdre Cummins is Of Counsel at Arthur Cox and a member of the firm’s Pensions and Employee Benefits team, advising on all aspects of pensions law in Ireland. Deirdre is a former chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers in Ireland and a member of the Pensions Council. Deirdre specialises in pensions law and advises employers and trustees on all aspects of Irish pension arrangements both in the private and public sectors. In particular, Deirdre advises on issues arising from the ongoing management and administration of occupational pension arrangements from establishment to winding up, including regulatory compliance, trusteeship issues, drafting and scheme amendments, GDPR considerations, member communications and restructuring and liability management exercises. Deirdre also advises on all pensions aspects of corporate transactions, including share sales and asset and business transfers. Deirdre has broad experience in pensions litigation and has advised extensively on contentious matters between employers and trustees in the context of restructuring and winding-up pension schemes. Deirdre also has broad experience of advising on cross-border pension transfers and on the regulatory and compliance considerations involved in establishing an IORP in another Member State. · Pensions

Deirdre O\'Mahony

Deirdre is a partner in our Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group, specialising in regulatory disputes and investigations and white collar crime. Deirdre has market leading experience advising and supporting clients through interactions with regulatory bodies and enforcement agencies in Ireland and internationally, with a particular focus on contentious financial regulatory investigations and enforcement. Deirdre has advised on complex and significant investigations (internal, regulatory, criminal and cross-border) and enforcement matters for domestic and international corporate bodies, financial institutions and senior executives and on related statutory inquiries and litigation. She is an expert in white collar crime and has over fifteen years’ experience in criminal investigation, enforcement and prosecution of corporate bodies and individuals. Deirdre is an accredited CEDR mediator. · Litigation

Deirdre Sheehan

Deirdre is a partner in the Real Estate Group and provides comprehensive, targeted advice to public and private sector, domestic and international clients on acquisitions and disposals of commercial property, landlord and tenant matters and property finance arrangements. She regularly provides real estate advices to our corporate, banking, and environmental and planning teams and is particularly experienced in commercial real estate investment transactions, Private Rented Sector (PRS) matters and Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) deals. · Real Estate

Ed McDonagh

Ed is Of Counsel in the Debt Finance Group and acts for a wide range of domestic and international financial institutions and borrowers. Ed specialises in banking and finance transactions including real estate finance, acquisition finance, corporate lending, debt restructuring, receivables finance, loan portfolio sales and advising financial institutions on standard documentation. · Banking & Finance

Eve Mulconry

Eve has over 28 years’ experience practising Litigation in Arthur Cox, specialising in large-scale commercial litigation across a range of areas including banking, financial services, and shareholder disputes. Eve has a very significant recoveries practice and has advised on some of the most high profile debt recovery and enforcement cases in the Commercial Court. Her expertise includes obtaining and defending interlocutory applications, obtaining European Enforcement Orders and Anton Piller Orders. Eve has very considerable experience in rating matters and acted in applications concerning rates before the Valuation Tribunal, High Court, and Supreme Court. Eve’s clients include financial institutions, State bodies, and regulated entities. Eve also has extensive experience in judicial review and in competition and regulatory matters. · Litigation

Fintan Clancy

Fintan specialises in tax. He represents companies on the tax issues arising from transactions such as acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations, migrations, securitisations, IP on-shoring and financings. Fintan advises multinationals, financial institutions and private equity in relation to insurance, financial and structured products in relation to significant tax matters. He navigates a path for clients through tax disputes, tax litigation and investigations, whether domestic or cross-border. He is increasingly advising clients on Irish and international policy matters. Previously, Fintan worked in a City of London law firm and a New York headquartered law firm. · Tax

Fintan Kerins

Fintan is a senior associate with our Aviation & Asset Finance Group who has extensive experience advising international and domestic clients on aircraft leasing and secured financing transactions in Ireland. Fintan acts for a wide range of financial institutions, funds, aircraft lessors and airlines, advising on asset finance, asset-backed finance, subscription finance, debt restructuring and finance leases. · Aviation

Frances Flynn

Frances is an Of Counsel in our Restructuring and Insolvency Group and advises clients on all aspects of Irish insolvency and restructuring law and procedures and related transactions. Frances specialises in restructuring and insolvency law, through both formal and informal procedures. She has extensive experience in both domestic and cross-border restructurings and insolvencies, and she has acted in a number of high profile examinerships, schemes of arrangement, liquidations, receiverships and debt workouts. Frances advises all stakeholders, including companies, directors, financial institutions, creditors, debtors, investors, insolvency practitioners and regulators, in relation to their rights, obligations and options arising in the context of all forms of insolvency and restructuring proceedings, debt enforcement and related litigation. She also advises on all aspects of personal insolvency and bankruptcy. Frances is a founding member and co-chair of the Irish International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) in Ireland. · Restructuring & Insolvency

Geoff Moore

Geoff has served as our Managing Partner since 2019. Prior to his current role, he served as Co-Head of our Corporate/ M&A Group specialising in mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory work for leading corporates. He has transactional experience across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus in recent years on the healthcare / pharma and financial services sectors. He has advised on many of the largest and most high profile M&A deals in Irish corporate history and is repeatedly recognised as one of the country’s leading corporate lawyers by leading independent publications, including Chambers Global/Europe, The Legal 500, IFLR and Who’s Who Legal. Previously, Geoff practised in the Corporate Finance Group of a leading New York firm. Key highlights include advising: on many of the largest/ most significant takeovers of Irish quoted companies including AbbVie/ Allergan, IAG/ Aer Lingus, Medtronic/ Covidien, Sumitomo/ Fyffes and Actavis/ Warner Chilcott a wide range of participants in distressed M&A matters, most particularly market-leading work on NPL portfolios for both selling financial institutions and private equity purchasers leading Irish corporates and their boards on complex corporate governance and strategic shareholder issues, particularly takeover defence and activist shareholder issues · Corporate / M&A

Golda Hession

Golda is Of Counsel in the Corporate and M&A Group, and advises clients on all areas of corporate law, in particular on securities law, corporate governance, and ESG. Golda advises international and domestic companies, as well as State and semi-State bodies, on all aspects of corporate law and governance, and a wide range of commercial and regulatory matters. Golda has extensive experience advising on public and private M&A, equity capital markets transactions and in particular, on corporate governance, ESG and executive remuneration matters for many of Ireland’s largest listed issuers. · Corporate / M&A

Ian Dillon

Ian is a partner and head of the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group with experience in all aspects of Irish fund law and regulation. Ian’s particular focus is on alternative investments including all aspects of AIFMD as well as real estate, hedge, private equity, credit, infrastructure and liquid fund formation. Ian has extensive experience in Irish Real Estate Funds having acted for some of the world’s leading real estate managers and investors in the establishment, organisation and ongoing management of Irish fund structures. Ian is also experienced in the establishment and ongoing regulation of ETF fund and management operations in Ireland. Ian has worked in the investment funds industry in Ireland and internationally and both in practice and in-house roles for over 20 years. · Asset Management / Investment Funds

Ian Duffy

Ian is a partner in the Technology & Innovation Group. Ian specialises in advising a wide range of domestic and international clients on outsourcing, digital transformation, cloud-related projects, commercial contracts, data protection, cyber security and information technology. Ian has significant experience in advising clients on complex and high value outsourcing and digital transformation projects. He is also particularly adept at advising financial institutions and other regulated firms on the convergence between technology, outsourcing and financial regulation. Ian also has extensive data protection experience and worked on some of the largest GDPR implementation projects in Europe. Ian regularly presents and publishes on outsourcing, digital transformation and data protection. Ian previously worked in the TMT Group of Linklaters LLP in London for several years. · Technology & Innovation

Imelda Shiels

Imelda is a partner in the Debt Finance Group. Imelda advises both borrowers and financial institutions on a wide range of domestic and international financing transactions, including secured and unsecured lending, syndicate finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, development finance, working capital finance and debt restructuring. · Banking & Finance

Jacinta Conway

Jacinta has practised exclusively in the area of Environment and Planning for many years. She has played a key role in advising on some of the most complex and significant transactions and litigation in the country. She has a special focus on the renewable energy, waste and natural resources sectors, and specialises in de-risking projects at the outset of their life cycle. Jacinta has also extensive litigation experience in relation to planning and environmental judicial review challenges, planning injunction proceedings and criminal enforcement prosecutions. · Environment

Joanelle O\'Cleirigh

Joanelle works for a broad range of clients, particularly those in the healthcare, life sciences, and regulated sectors. Joanelle also advises clients in relation to inquiries and investigations. Joanelle’s Corporate Crime experience includes advising in relation to the conduct of investigations and inquiries; some of Ireland’s most significant Tribunals of Inquiry, Commissions of Investigation; and on some of the most complex and sensitive statutory and corporate investigations. Her healthcare/life sciences expertise includes advising on: contractual issues; disputes/closure of services; HIQA regulations; HPRA and Compliance; investigations/reviews/look-backs and product recalls; medical negligence cross border healthcare; constitutional law; privacy and data issues; capacity and consent; wardship; maternity services child protection. · Litigation

John Donald

John is Head of our Restructuring and Insolvency Group and advises clients on all aspects of Irish insolvency and restructuring law and procedures, and related special situations and transactions. John specialises in restructuring and insolvency law, with particular emphasis on corporate restructuring, through both formal and informal procedures. He has represented clients of the firm with respect to many of the highest profile and complex restructuring and insolvency cases in Ireland over the last twenty years, and has extensive experience in all aspects of company law, distressed M&A and the purchase and work-out of distressed debt assets. John represents all classes of creditors, debtors, investors, insolvency practitioners, regulators and other stakeholders in relation to the safeguarding of their interests, the discharge of their duties and the mitigation of risk and potential liabilities. · Restructuring & Insolvency

John Matson

John is a corporate partner and is Head of International at the firm. He specialises in corporate law and has a broad corporate and commercial practice including advising upon domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and other complex corporate transactions. John also deals with corporate reorganisations and migrations, loan portfolio acquisitions and sales and has significant experience in corporate governance matters for both regulated and unregulated entities. He also deals extensively with overseas clients and counsel on the establishment of business operations in Ireland and in respect of ongoing legal requirements and issues. He has particular experience and expertise in transactions and advisory work in the technology, energy and insurance and financial services sectors. John has, during the course of his career, headed up both our London and New York offices, headed up one of the firm’s M&A teams and has served on, and participates in, the firm’s Management Committee. · Corporate / M&A

John Walsh

John has wide experience in all aspects of commercial property law including advising on the construction law aspects of commercial transactions. John’s clients include developers, tenants, and purchasers. He has wide experience in relation to property investment and financing of new developments. · Real Estate

Karen Killoran

Karen Killoran is a market‑leading Partner in our Construction and Engineering Group. Karen advises developers, funders, sponsors and corporates on the full lifecycle of major projects—financing, development and construction—across a wide range of sectors including logistics, residential and PRS/BTR, social housing, commercial and mixed‑use, life sciences and renewable energy (notably wind, solar, battery storage and interconnector projects). She has deep experience structuring and negotiating EPC, employer‑design, construction management and DBO contracting models and equipment supply contracts together with advising on the full suite of ancillary documentation such as bonds, collateral warranties and design‑team appointments. She is very familiar with all the industry standard form contracts including FIDIC, RIAI, NEC, JCT and PWC. Karen’s practice spans both complex transactional mandates and contentious matters, and she regularly advises on dispute avoidance and dispute resolution, including adjudication under the Construction Contracts Act 2013, arbitration, conciliation and mediation. Karen is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a practising arbitrator (ICC and domestic) and a member of the ministerial panel of adjudicators. · Construction

Kate O\'Donohoe

Kate is Of Counsel in our Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Department Group and specialises in the area of Healthcare law, professional regulation and Litigation. Kate advises on all aspects of healthcare service provision and regulation, including mental health, vulnerable adults and investigations. Kate has significant experience advising in the healthcare sector and has advised in relation to a wide variety of disputes and regulatory issues encountered by clients. She regularly advises public and private health and social care providers in relation to their statutory obligations and corporate governance. Kate also has significant experience in the conduct of professional misconduct inquiries and disciplinary proceedings. Kate also advises Nursing Homes and other social care providers on their obligations under the Health Acts, including the compliance requirements of HIQA. · Litigation

Keith Smith

Keith specialises in complex commercial litigation, dispute resolution and investigations often with multinational aspects. Keith has over twenty years’ experience of dealing with complex disputes across a range of areas including corporate and shareholder disputes, financial services litigation, as well as disputes in the aviation, energy, intellectual property, real estate and technology sectors. He also advises clients in regulatory investigations many of which involve significant reputational issues and potential precedent-setting impact and often result in follow-on litigation. · Litigation