Matheson LLP

Aidan Fahy

Aidan Fahy is a partner in the firm's Tax Department and advises on all aspects of corporate taxation including the structuring of domestic and international reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions and the tax consequences of doing business in and from Ireland. He also advises on cross-border financial planning, property transactions, employment related taxes, and insolvency related issues. Aidan advises on personal taxation and represents high net worth individuals and owner managed businesses. Aidan is an associate of the Irish Taxation Institute. He has lectured on the undergraduate law degree at Griffith College Dublin and is co-author of Business Operations in the Republic of Ireland, which is published by Bloomberg BNA in the US. · Tax

Ailbhe Dennehy

Ailbhe advises domestic and international clients on a variety of employment law and industrial relations issues. She specialises in guiding employers through crisis and change management situations, from conduct of disciplinary and grievance processes and investigations of bullying / harassment or whistleblowing allegations, to complex terminations of employment. Ailbhe joins Matheson with extensive experience in providing strategic and practical advice on corporate transactions and restructurings, regularly acting for clients before the WRC, the Labour Court and the civil courts. A frequent lecturer on current employment law issues and contributor to employment law publications, she is a member of the Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI), the Employment Committee of the Dublin Solicitor Bar Association (DSBA), the European Employment Lawyer’s Association (EELA) and the UK Employment Lawyers Association (ELA). · Employment

Aishlinn Gannon

Aishlinn Gannon is a partner in Matheson’s Disputes and Investigations Group, where she leads on complex, high-stakes disputes and contentious regulatory matters, with a particular focus on the financial services sector. A seasoned litigator, Aishlinn has acted in many of the most significant commercial disputes in recent years. She represents leading financial institutions, global corporates and insurers in complex litigation before the Superior Courts, bringing a strategic and commercially-focused approach to each matter. As trusted adviser in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, Aishlinn supports both domestic and international clients navigating regulatory scrutiny, crisis response, and reputational risk. She delivers clear, strategic advice to organisations, and senior individuals on all aspects of investigations and enforcement actions. Her practice spans a broad range of regulatory and white collar matters, including financial services enforcement, fraud, corporate offences, anti-bribery and corruption compliance under Irish and EU regimes. Aishlinn is recognised for her pragmatic, solutions-driven advice and regularly advises senior executives and boards on internal investigations and regulatory engagement. Aishlinn works closely with Matheson’s cross-disciplinary teams and technical experts across Matheson’s non-contentious practice groups, including Technology and Innovation, Financial Institutions, Asset Management, Finance and Capital Markets and Corporate, to ensure clients benefit from a coordinated, cross-disciplinary approach. · Litigation

Aisling Kavanagh

Aisling Kavanagh is a partner in Matheson’s Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution team. Aisling is a commercial litigator specialising in insurance disputes. Aisling manages high value, large scale complex disputes, and has acted in high-profile litigation in both the English and Irish Courts. Before joining Matheson, Aisling spent over six years as a litigator with a leading firm in London, where she acted in energy, construction and insurance disputes. Her practice includes insurance disputes, commercial and financial services dispute resolution, and arbitration. As regards her insurance disputes work, Aisling advises domestic and international clients on policy wording interpretation, complex coverage disputes, D&O claims, professional indemnity claims, including any potential third party liability, and subrogation claims. Aisling has extensive experience with alternative dispute resolution processes. She has advised in complex mediations and arbitrations, including under ICC and LCIA arbitration rules, and she has advised as regards disputes before the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman. Aisling also provides non-contentious advice to insurers and brokers on the drafting and interpretation of insurance contracts including drafting bespoke policy wordings. She regularly provides policy analysis, including "gap" analysis as regards cover, for domestic and international companies, directors and senior executives. Aisling is a member of the Law Society of Ireland, the Insurance Institute of Ireland and the British Insurance Law Association. She is a lecturer on the Law Society Diploma of Insurance Law, has presented in seminars and has contributed to a number of industry publications. · Commercial Litigation

Alan Keating

Alan Keating is a partner in our Finance and Capital Markets Department and heads the firm’s US structured finance practice. Alan has been based in the firm’s New York office since 2011. Alan advises international companies and financial institutions, asset managers, private equity firms, hedge funds, investment banks, arrangers, issuers, rating agencies, trustees and investors on all aspects (including restructuring) of debt capital markets, securitisation (cross-border and domestic) and structured finance transactions. In particular, Alan advises on CLOs, CDOs, LPNs, NPLs, RMBS, CMBS, US life settlements, receivables and mortgage securitisations, ABS, ABCP, MTN and repackaging programmes, deposit and fund-linked structured products (including Shariah-compliant structures), cat bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS), high-yield and other debt offerings (both public and private). Alan has extensive experience of advising US based alternative asset managers on the structuring, establishment and capital-raising for funds implementing a wide range of investment strategies and also funds investing in private equity, distressed debt and other credit-led opportunities, real estate, infrastructure and a broad range of other asset classes. Alan also advises clients on Irish prospectus, transparency and market abuse law, and listing queries relating to the listing of debt securities on the Main Securities Market and the Global Exchange Market of Euronext Dublin. Alan has acted on a number of high profile and market-first transactions involving peer-to-peer (P2P) and marketplace lending platforms, including Europe’s first marketplace lending securitisation. Alan is a qualified solicitor and a qualified tax consultant and is a member of the Law Society of Ireland and the Irish Tax Institute. Alan was previously seconded to the legal department of a large investment bank in London where he acted as in-house counsel to the Global Markets — Fixed Income trading desk. Alan is licensed as a Foreign Legal Consultant with the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Alan previously tutored at the Law Society of Ireland and University College Dublin. · Finance & Capital Markets

Alma Campion

Alma Campion is a partner in the Finance and Capital Markets Department, having joined the firm in 2005. She has extensive experience in the Irish market in advising domestic and international banks, financial institutions and corporate borrowers in respect of a broad range of finance matters and regularly acts as lead counsel in numerous multi-jurisdiction transactions. She specialises in the areas of acquisition finance, property and development finance, debt issuances, general secured and unsecured lending and syndicated lending. She also advises banks and financial institutions on regulatory matters and has considerable experience in reviewing and updating standard form lending and security documents on behalf of financial institutions. Alma has recently worked on several large loan portfolio sale transactions and has advised sellers, buyers and financiers on such matters in addition to advising on consensual workouts, debt restructurings and on-selling of underlying loan assets. · Banking & Finance

Angela Brennan

Angela is a partner in Matheson’s Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. Angela has over 14 years’ experience in advising in all aspects of commercial and financial services dispute resolution, shareholder disputes, insurance coverage disputes, aviation disputes, regulatory disputes, and contentious and non-contentious corporate restructuring and insolvency matters. Continuously recognised for her ability as an excellent lawyer and strategic litigator, Angela is recommended by Legal 500 and is noted as being a "Key Lawyer" in the Litigation Department. Angela also advises clients throughout their engagements with regulatory authorities, in internal and external investigations, risk mitigation, remediation programmes, mis-selling claims and enforcement actions. Her practice includes high-stakes, complex Commercial Court disputes and she has extensive experience in interlocutory applications, issues arising under the Civil Liability Act, pathfinder litigation and stay applications, security for costs applications, mediations and multi-party settlements. Angela is a champion in the firm in the use of legal technology and AI. She works very closely with Matheson’s Digital Services Group and has managed some of firm's the largest e-discovery projects. Angela’s clients include financial institutions, insurers and reinsurers, fund managers, fintech firms, domestic and international companies, directors and senior executives, insolvency practitioners, shareholders and creditors. Angela has worked extensively with financial services and professional services clients for many years and is familiar with the regulated environment in which they operate, having spent a year on secondment as Head of Legal at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited, where she managed an extensive litigation book, dealt with customer remediation projects and regulatory obligations and was its Data Protection Officer. Angela is a committee member of the Commercial Law Committee of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association. She is a former committee member and current member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners and INSOL. Angela also lectures and tutors on the professional practice course of the Law Society of Ireland, and is a regular contributor to industry publications. · Litigation

Anne-Marie Bohan

Anne-Marie Bohan has over 20 years' experience in technology related legal matters, and is former Head of Matheson's Technology and Innovation Group . Anne-Marie brings together significant practical experience in advising on technology and privacy legal issues with industry knowledge and an understanding of applicable regulatory rules and regulatory requirements. She advises on all aspects of technology and e-commerce law, as well as outsourcings and contracted services, with particular focus on the requirements of financial institutions and financial services providers in these areas. Anne-Marie has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating contracts for the development, sale, purchase and licensing of hardware, software and IT systems for both suppliers and users of IT within the financial services industry and across a broad range of other industries. She has also acted in some of the largest value and most complex IT and telecommunications systems and services outsourcing contracts, including advising on a number of the largest and highest value financial services outsourcings in Ireland. Anne-Marie's practice includes advising a broad range of clients on data protection, privacy issues and cybersecurity issues, including employee data protection issues, data subject access requests and security breach incidents. · Technology

Anthony Gaskin

Anthony Gaskin is a partner in the Asset Management Department at Matheson. He practices corporate and financial services law and advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, sponsors, investment banks, asset management companies and service providers carrying on business in Ireland or through Irish fund vehicles. Anthony has advised a wide range of clients on the structuring, establishment and marketing of investment vehicles and products in Ireland and other jurisdictions. He advises on many types of Irish and European investment structures, including UCITS and Alternative Investment Funds (both unregulated and regulated) across multiple asset classes. Anthony also advises sponsors and fund managers in relation to co-investment structures associated with Alternative Investment Funds, as well as carried interest, employee participation and other incentive arrangements associated with such funds. Anthony also regularly advises on direct lending structures as well as on fund mergers and other types of fund restructuring projects. Anthony also advises on the Irish interpretation and implementation of European financial services legislation, including in relation to sustainable finance initiatives, the ELTIF Regulation and AIFMD II. He regularly advises on the marketing of Irish funds in EEA member states and other jurisdictions. Anthony is actively involved at industry level in Ireland and sits on a number of committees of Irish Funds, the industry association in Ireland, and also regularly presents at industry events, both in person and online. · Asset Management

April McClements

April McClements is a Partner in the Disputes and Investigations Group. April is a commercial litigator and specialises in insurance disputes. She is recognised by Legal 500 as a “Leading Individual” for Insurance and has won Insurance Lawyer of the Year twice at the EMEA Women in Business Awards. She is ranked by Chambers & Partners for Insurance Disputes. April advises on the full spectrum of insurance disputes, in particular complex coverage disputes, across all lines of business. She also advises on policy wording interpretation and drafting, D&O claims, professional indemnity claims (including any potential third party liability), cyber, W&I and emerging risks, and subrogation claims. April manages large scale complex commercial disputes, including high profile Commercial Court litigation and arbitrations (under international rules such as LCIA and ad hoc arbitrations). April has been involved in some of the most significant Commercial disputes in Ireland and most of the precedent setting cases in the area of insurance disputes in the last number of years. April is a member of the Law Society of Ireland, the Insurance Institute of Ireland and the British Insurance Law Association. She is a regular contributor to industry publications and speaker on insurance issues. · Insurance

Barry McGettrick

Barry is a partner in the tax group specialising in international tax. Barry advises on supply chain tax structuring, inward investment projects, corporate reorganisations, cross border taxation of senior executives, tax controversy as well as mergers and acquisitions. Barry advises a portfolio of international clients primarily in the ICT, life sciences, manufacturing, retail and industrial sectors. Barry speaks and writes regularly on international tax matters for the International Tax Review, Irish Tax Institute, International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA), International Bar Association (IBA), PLC, Law Society, Kluwer and Bloomberg. As well as being admitted to the roll of solicitors in Ireland, Barry is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales (non-practicing), is a qualified financial advisor and is a chartered tax adviser of the Irish Taxation Institute. · Tax

Barry O'Connor

Barry O'Connor is a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds Group at Matheson. He practices financial services law and advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, investment banks, asset management companies, broker-dealers and corporations carrying on business through Irish domiciled investment funds (ICAVs, investment companies, unit trusts, CCFs and ILPs) and Irish domiciled management companies (UCITS and AIFMs). Barry has extensive experience advising on the launch of UCITS and AIFs (stand-alone funds, umbrellas and third party manager platforms) across the full range of strategies, including plain vanilla strategies, hedge fund strategies, structured UCITS, fund of funds, money market funds, ETFs and master-feeders, and on their ongoing servicing (including the launch and termination of sub-funds, a change of service providers and listing on the Irish Stock Exchange). He is also experienced in more complex issues arising in the course of the life of a UCITS or AIF, including obtaining Central Bank approval for innovative fund mechanics and structures. · Asset Management

Brendan Colgan

Brendan is a Partner in the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department at Matheson and is a member of the firm’s Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Law Group. Brendan provides specialist advice to financial institutions, creditor groups, NAMA, receivers, examiners and companies on contentious and non-contentious corporate restructuring and insolvency matters. Brendan is a Council member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners and is also is a member of INSOL Europe and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Brendan lectures and tutors on insolvency law matters on the professional practice courses of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland and Chartered Accountants Ireland. · Commercial Litigation

Brian Doohan

Brian is a partner in the firm's Tax Department and advises multinational corporations doing business in and from Ireland on all aspects of Irish corporate taxation. Brian has a particular interest in cross border tax planning, transfer pricing and tax controversy matters and also has extensive experience in structuring mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganisations. Brian’s clients include many of the leading multinational corporations operating in the ICT, life sciences, manufacturing, retail and industrial sectors in Ireland. Brian also advises on Irish stamp duty matters particularly in the context of global reorganisations. Brian frequently publishes articles in leading tax journals and is Chartered Tax Advisor and a member of the Law Society of Ireland. · Tax

Brian Doran

Brian is a partner and head of the Commercial Real Estate Department at Matheson. Brian also heads up the firm's Development Land Group. Brian advises on all areas of property development law and negotiates related sale and purchase contracts, with extensive experience in the set-up and design of privately managed residential, retail and mixed use schemes. He has particular expertise in the area of enforcement and insolvency-related multi-family sales in privately managed apartment schemes and mixed-use developments. Brian has advised institutional, private equity and opportunistic investors on investment in the key CRE assets classes of office, retail, development land, multi-family developments and non performing loan books secured on CRE assets. Brian has advised financial institutions in the disposal of trophy assets and high volume loan portfolios, with associated online data room design and management services. He has also advised financial institutions and private equity investors on the acquisition of high volume loan portfolios. · Commercial Real Estate

Brian McCloskey

Brian is a partner in the Corporate Department at Matheson where he focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters. Brian has spent more than ten years advising international companies, in both the UK and Ireland, on corporate law matters including public and private company M&A, private equity transactions, equity fundraisings, reorganisations, joint ventures, refinancings and general commercial matters. Having previously worked in a large international law firm in London, Brian has particular expertise in cross-border M&A and private equity. Brian has experience across a range of sectors acting for both buyers and sellers. Brian also counsels corporate clients on a broad range of governance and business-related issues, including directors' duties and responsibilities and general compliance matters. · Corporate / M&A

Bryan Dunne

Bryan Dunne is a partner and head of the Employment Practice at Matheson. He advises on a variety of aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious. This work includes preparation of senior executive service agreements and severance arrangements for international employers, defence work in contentious employment litigation matters and advising on all employment aspects of commercial transactions. He also regularly advises employers on internal grievance and disciplinary processes, with particular focus on senior executive level employees. Bryan is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association of Ireland, and the European Employment Lawyers Association. He is also a member of American Bar Association’s International Labour and Employment Law section and a co-author of the Irish Chapter for the ABA's annual publication on International Labour and Employment Law. He has also presented at numerous ABA and other events in the US and Europe and has been the European Chair of the ABA CLE teleconference training programme since 2006. Bryan has also written articles for Irish and European trade and legal publications on employment issues, and is a tutor and examiner on employment law on the Law Society's solicitor training course. He has published a chapter on International Employment and Secondment in a leading Irish employment law text, and is a regular speaker on cross border employment issues to US audiences. He is also a fluent Spanish speaker and a member of the Irish Spanish Economic Association, and advises many leading Spanish companies on employment law issues in their Irish operations. · Employment

Calum Warren

Calum Warren is a partner in the Competition and Regulation Group. Prior to joining Matheson, Calum worked at leading international law firms in Brussels and London. Calum advises on all aspects of Irish and EU competition and regulatory law including merger control, competition compliance and investigations, sector regulation, public procurement, state aid and general EU law. Calum has also gained in-depth experience in a range of sectors including financial services, telecommunications and media (TMT), agri-business, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, food & beverages and transport. Calum specialises in advising on and managing clearance strategies for M&A transactions before the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) and the European Commission, including transactions subject to in-depth Phase 2 investigations and remedies negotiations. His previous roles in Brussels and London also enable Calum to bring considerable multi-jurisdictional perspective to his advice. Calum also specialises in managing competition investigations before the CCPC and the European Commission, including representation during on-site inspections (‘dawn raids’), whistle-blower applications and follow-on litigation before the Irish and EU courts. Calum also has significant expertise in advising on competition compliance issues, including competitor collaborations, the competition aspects of distribution arrangements and technology transfer / IP arrangements and internal compliance programmes (including ‘dawn raid’ preparedness). Calum contributes articles to leading international legal publications and speaks regularly on EU competition issues. · Competition

Caroline Austin

Caroline is a partner in the Tax Department of Matheson. Caroline advises on cross border tax planning, transfer pricing, tax controversy matters and inward investment projects. Caroline also has extensive experience in international corporate restructurings as well as mergers and acquisitions on an international and national level. Caroline is co-author of the Irish Chapter of the IBFD's publication on Transfer Pricing. Caroline was previously seconded to the tax department of a multinational company. Caroline is a Chartered Tax Advisor and a member of the Law Society of Ireland. · Tax

Caroline Kearns

Caroline is a Corporate / M&A Partner and leads the corporate transactions/M&A team within the Financial Institutions Group. Caroline has extensive experience advising on a broad range of international and domestic corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investment, equity capital markets transactions and corporate reorganisations, with a particular focus on Financial Institutions and Insurance. Her clients include many of the world’s leading financial institutions and insurance market players. Prior to re-joining Matheson as a Partner in 2021, Caroline spent over 10 years working with two leading global law firms, primarily based in London, where she advised on a number of complex, high value, multi-jurisdictional deals. Caroline regularly acts for many of Europe’s leading Warranty and Indemnity underwriters, advising on the underwriting of high value international M&A transactions, as well as domestic Irish transactions, across all sectors. Caroline also counsels corporate clients on a broad range of governance and business-related matters, including directors' duties and responsibilities and general compliance matters. · Corporate / M&A

Catherine Galvin

Catherine Galvin practises corporate tax and advises on inward investment, cross border tax planning and transfer pricing issues. She advises many of the leading international corporations doing business in and from Ireland. Catherine is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. She is the Irish panel member for BNAI's Transfer Pricing Forum. Catherine is the co-author of the Irish chapter for the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation's (IBFD) publication The Tax Treatment of Transfer Pricing. She has also written on transfer pricing issues for Transfer Pricing Review and for IBFD's International Transfer Pricing Journal. Catherine has written on tax issues for the Irish Tax Review, the International Tax Review and other publications and has lectured on international tax issues. · Corporate Tax

Catherine O’Meara

Catherine is a partner in the tax department at Matheson. Catherine has significant experience advising multinational corporations doing business in Ireland on Irish corporate tax. Catherine primarily advises multinationals on the Irish tax aspects of their operations including tax effective structuring of global reorganisations, IP ownership, inward investment projects and cash repatriation strategies. Catherine has a particular interest in advising on domestic and cross border tax disputes on transfer pricing matters, including Irish audits, mutual agreement procedure requests, correlative relief claims, advance pricing agreements and advising on the application of EU State aid principles in the context of Irish taxation matters. Catherine’s clients include many of the leading multinational corporations established in Ireland, primarily in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, ICT and consumer brand sector. Catherine has published articles in leading tax journals, is co-author on the Ireland section of the Bloomberg BNA TP Forum and is co-author of the Ireland chapter of the International Fiscal Association Cahiers on Cross Border Business Restructuring. Catherine is a Chartered Tax Advisor and a member of the Law Society of Ireland. Catherine is currently Chairperson of the International Fiscal Association – Irish branch. · Tax

Charleen O\'Keeffe

Charleen is a partner in our Disputes and Investigations Group, specialising in Intellectual Property (IP) and regulatory law. Charleen works with a wide range of national and multinational clients, from global life sciences and healthcare companies, to leading consumer goods companies. She is a recognised leader in the life sciences sector, with a particular expertise in the intersection of regulatory law, competition law and patent litigation. As a skilled litigator, Charleen brings extensive experience in guiding clients through complex Irish and multi-jurisdictional IP disputes. She advises leading global companies including innovator pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies in high-stakes international disputes. By providing strategic local advice and representation, Charleen and her team serve as a critical component in cross-border disputes. Charleen joined Matheson in June 2026 from another large Irish law firm, where she had been a partner since 2020. Charleen advises clients in the life sciences sector on every phase of a product’s life cycle from product development, clinical trials, data exclusivity, regulatory approval to commercialisation and product safety / recall / liability. She is a lecturer on the Law Society of Ireland’s IP Diploma and PPC courses and has been recognised for several years by the leading directories for her work in Life Sciences and Healthcare and in IP. · Intellectual Property

Chris Quinn

Chris Quinn is a consultant in Matheson's Finance and Capital Markets Department and focuses on asset finance, leasing, structured and cross-border financing and securitisations. Chris advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, investment banks, aircraft financing banks, aircraft owners, aircraft lessors, airlines, financial arrangers and investments advisers both located in Ireland and throughout the world. Chris has extensive experience in asset finance, leasing, structured cross border financing and securitisation transactions including the acquisition, financing, sale and leaseback and defeasance of aircraft, ships, rail, rolling stock and other equipment. Chris' clients include a number of the major aircraft leasing companies, both Irish and foreign airlines, equipment leasing companies, many of the major asset financing and equipment leasing banks and many of the leading investment banks. Chris has spoken at a number of securitisation, structured finance and airfinance conferences and has contributed a number of articles to Structured Finance and Asset Finance publications. Chris has spoken at a number of conferences in relation to Aircraft Transactions and Ireland. He is also a regular speaker at Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol Legal conferences. · Asset Finance

Christian Donagh

Christian Donagh is a partner in the Finance and Capital Markets Department at Matheson and is head of the firm's Derivatives, Netting and Collateral Group. Christian's practice focuses on advising asset managers and investment banks doing business in and from Ireland in relation to securitisations, CLOs, fund-linked structured products, repackagings, securities lending and repos. Christian regularly advises Irish corporates and their counterparties in relation to ISDA master agreements and collateral arrangements relating to over-the-counter derivatives transactions such as interest rate and currency linked swaps, caps and collars and on compliance with EMIR. Frequently, the firm provides legal opinions on issues relating to the enforceability of close-out netting provisions and collateral arrangements documented using industry standard or bespoke derivatives, repo and prime brokerage documentation. Christian qualified as a solicitor with Allen & Overy in 2000 and spent several years in each of its London and Hong Kong offices. Christian joined Matheson in 2006 and became a partner in 2007. Christian co-chairs the Legal Committee of the Irish Debt Securities Association (IDSA) and is a former chairperson of IDSA. The IDSA is an industry organisation promoting and developing Ireland as a location for activities to support the global securitisation, structured finance, debt securities and specialist securities industries with over 35 corporate members. Christian is also a member of the Rules Committee of Euronext, Dublin. · Finance & Capital Markets

Cillian O'Boyle

Cillian is a partner in the Commercial Real Estate Department at Matheson and is a member of the CRE Secured Lending and Insolvency Group at Matheson. He is an accomplished and commercially focused lawyer and practises in all aspects of commercial property law. Cillian advises both domestic and international lenders on all property aspects of real estate security from the taking of security through to the enforcement of same. Cillian also has considerable experience in general commercial property work including acquisitions and disposals and commercial landlord and tenant work. Cillian has particular experience in the renewables sphere having advised in relation to all property matters arising in connection with various energy projects including power stations, onshore wind farms, battery storage developments and solar energy projects. · Real Estate

Conor Blennerhassett

Conor is a partner in Matheson's Projects and Infrastructure Group and Energy, Natural Resources and Utilities Group. Conor advises on large-scale infrastructure, energy and construction projects, with specialised experience in contract negotiation, risk allocation, development structuring, financing, transactional matters (including due diligence and transaction document negotiation), corporate law matters and operational advice (including regulatory issues and operational problem solving). Conor’s primary focus is on infrastructure development and transactional projects (greenfield and brownfield), particularly concessions, PPPs, debt-financed and similar private sector-led development structures. Conor works with clients such as infrastructure funders, sponsors, contractors and operational teams. Conor is ranked as a leading practitioner in the IFLR100, Legal 500 and Chambers international legal directories in the project development, project finance, PPP and transport practice areas. · Projects & Infrastructure

Dara Higgins

Dara Higgins is a partner in the Tax Department of Matheson specialising in Indirect Taxes. Dara advises clients on VAT, Customs and Trade law, Excise and Relevant Contracts Tax. Dara advises on Indirect Taxes across all industry sectors including, real estate and construction, financial services, import / export, technology, aviation, energy and pharmaceuticals. Dara also has significant experience in the area of tax controversy and regularly acts for clients in the context of tax appeals and audits and investigations. Dara has a broad client base consisting of both domestic and international clients, many of which have complex global supply chains. Dara is a qualified Solicitor and Chartered Tax Advisor. · Indirect Taxes

Darren Maher

Darren Maher is the Managing Partner of Matheson. Prior to his appointment as managing partner, Darren was head of the Financial Institutions Group, and Co-Head of the Corporate Department in 2023.. He has advised a wide range of leading domestic and international financial institutions on all aspects of financial services law and regulation including establishment and authorisation, development and distribution of products, compliance, corporate governance and re-organisations including cross-border mergers, schemes of arrangement, portfolio transfers and mergers and acquisitions. Darren frequently publishes articles in financial services publications and is co-author of Law Business Research’s Insurance and Reinsurance Law Review, and co-contributor to ICLG’s Guide to Insurance and Reinsurance. Darren lectures at the Law Society of Ireland and the Insurance Institute of Ireland. · Financial Services

David Fitzgibbon

David is a partner and Co-Head of the Firm’s Corporate Department and Head of the M&A Group advising private and public companies on corporate and securities laws, including mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions. He has extensive experience advising international clients on doing business in and from Ireland including advising on acquisitions/disposals, compliance and governance rules, corporate migrations, cross-border mergers, joint ventures and reorganisations. He has worked extensively with listed companies (Euronext Dublin/LSE, NASDAQ and NYSE) providing ongoing strategic and compliance advice on matters of Irish company law and securities regulation. He has a broad-based practice reflecting his considerable experience across the agri-food, financial services, healthcare / life sciences and manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining Matheson, David was a partner at another Irish law firm for over a decade. He has advised on many of Ireland’s headline transactions and regularly acts for well-known Irish and international companies on domestic and cross-border transactions. · Corporate / M&A

David Jones

David is a partner in the Corporate M&A Group, based in Matheson's New York office. David advises on a broad range of public and private company transactions, specialising in equity capital markets deals, public company M&A (hostile and recommended offers), group reorganisations and corporate redomiciliations. He also advises corporate and individual clients on European securities law, Irish and UK Listing Rules and the Irish Takeover Rules, as well as Irish company law. · Corporate / M&A

David O'Mahony

David O’Mahony is a partner in the Finance and Capital Markets Department. David has extensive experience advising in relation to secured and unsecured lending transactions, bilateral loans, real estate finance, syndicated loans, debt restructuring, receivables finance and fund finance. He currently acts for several leading Irish and international banks and financial institutions, non-bank lenders and a wide range of corporate borrowers. · Banking & Finance

Davinia Brennan

Davinia is a partner in Matheson’s Technology and Innovation Group. She has over 10 years’ expertise in data protection; privacy; information technology and; e-commerce law. Davinia advises international and domestic companies on all aspects of compliance with data protection and privacy law, including; handling data subject access requests; data breach incidents; regulatory investigations and; international data transfers. She also advises online businesses on evolving regulatory and consumer protection law obligations. Davinia presents and publishes widely on a range of technology related legal matters, in particular on data protection, intellectual property and information technology law. She is also a member of the editorial board of the PDP Data Protection Ireland Journal. · Technology & Innovation

Deirdre Crowley

Deirdre Crowley is a Partner in our Commercial Litigation Group, specialising in emerging technology law. Deirdre’s practice is focused on the digital economy, with a particular emphasis on Data Protection, Cyber and Artificial Intelligence. Deirdre was the holder of the prestigious EMEA WIB Data Protection and Privacy Lawyer of the Year 2023 award and was shortlisted for this award once again in 2024. She is a leading authority on GDPR and represents many clients in their dealings with the Data Protection Commission, including in relation to regulatory investigations resulting from cyber incidents, data subject access complaints and own volition inquiries. Deirdre’s practice is primarily focused on technological innovation and digitalisation related advices. She acts for many of the world’s highest profile companies, spanning across sectors ranging from social media platforms, technology, pharma, medical devices manufacturing multinational companies to government departments and regulatory bodies. Deirdre’s practice includes contentious and non-contentious work, making her a trusted advisor of many in respect of their compliance, governance and related contentious defence litigation work. Deirdre is also a partner in Matheson’s Digital Economy Group and together with specialists from our financial institutions group, competition and regulation group and our technology and innovation group, Deirdre is working with clients to deal with the wave of new regulatory compliance obligations coming from Europe in the Digital Markets, Cyber and Artificial Intelligence space. A highly sought after conference speaker, Deirdre is frequently invited to speak at key industry and academic events. Deirdre is a guest lecturer on UCC’s LLM course in Tech and Elaw and the Law Society of Ireland’s Data Protection courses. Deirdre is a voluntary member of the Crawford Art Gallery’s Law and Finance Committee. Recent areas of experience highlights include: Advising many of the world’s largest technology companies headquartered in Ireland in respect of their GDPR, cyber-security and artificial intelligence governance programmes. Drafting cyber and data protection incident response and crisis management policies and procedures, training board and leadership teams on the legal aspects of data security incidents. Representing global online platform and technology companies in regulatory inquiries, including Data Protection Inquiries. Representing clients in high stakes litigation, including procuring urgent High Court injunctive relief in cases involving the theft of commercial data and court relief for multinational companies in the context of emerging technology law. Leading and coordinating high profile cyber incident response teams, dealing with parallel reporting obligations, third party vendor management and engaging with the Data Protection Commission, An Garda Siochana, the National Cyber Security Centre, Interpol and Europol. Advising on post cyber incident commercial disputes and large-scale contentious and non-contentious data subject access complaints. Advising many leading online platforms and hosting providers in relation to their obligations under the Digital Services Act, the Online Media and Regulation Act and emerging laws governing Artificial Intelligence, ethics, compliance and governance. This includes advising on content moderation rules, content take down obligations, law enforcement response procedures, compliance, audit functions and adtech regulation. Advising on the drafting of legislation in the data protection context, including drafting legislation relevant to government departments, regulatory bodies and government authorities. Advising organisations on Data Subject Access Request complaints, particularly in the context of employment litigation, Data Protection Commission Inquiries and GDPR litigation. · Commercial Litigation

Deirdre Dunne

Deirdre Dunne is a partner and head of Business Development at Matheson. Deirdre established the firm's office in Palo Alto, California in January 1997 where she was resident counsel for seven years. During this time she advised North American companies establishing operations and conducting business in and through Ireland. As head of Business Development at the firm, with extensive experience in practice, Deirdre leads the firm’s sales strategy. She is responsible for managing programmes to increase new business generation, support multi-jurisdictional client relationships, strategic sales planning and client relationship management. She is also responsible for client development, identifying clients' requirements and ensuring the firm meets our clients’ needs and expectations. Deirdre is a member of the Law Society of Ireland since 1990 and an associate member of the American Bar Association (ABA).

Dermot Powell

Dermot’s focus includes information security, data protection, supplier management, Anti money laundering and compliance with laws and regulations relating to the practice of solicitors. Dermot worked in private practice for six years and was then a general counsel for a financial services firm for 20 years. · Data Protection

Donal O'Byrne

Donal is a partner in the Asset Management Department at Matheson. He practices financial services law and advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, investment banks and asset management companies carrying on business through Irish domiciled investment funds and Irish domiciled management companies. Donal has widespread experience in the establishment, authorisation and operation of all types of investment funds in Ireland, including UCITS and non-UCITS across the full range of strategies, including plain vanilla strategies, hedge fund strategies, structured UCITS, fund of funds, money market funds and exchange traded funds (“ETFs”). He also has significant experience in the provision of regulatory and compliance matters for fund service providers. He has particular experience in relation to advising ETFs and the re-domiciliation of investment funds, in particular cross border mergers of funds under UCITS IV. He has extensive experience in respect of the authorisation of management companies seeking approval in Ireland under both the UCITS Directive and Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD”). Donal is a member of the Irish Funds Packaged Retail Investments Product Regulation working group. · Asset Management

Dualta Counihan

Dualta Counihan is a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds Group at Matheson. He practises financial services law and advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, investment banks, asset management companies, and service providers carrying on business in Ireland or through Irish vehicles. Dualta has extensive experience in advising a wide range of domestic and international clients on the structuring, establishment, marketing and sale of investment vehicles and products in Ireland and other jurisdictions. In particular, he advises on the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the establishment of private and public investment funds in Ireland, the listing of investment funds on the Euronext, the structuring, offer and sale of investment instruments and investment products, the provision of investment advice and other financial services. · Asset Management

Elaine Long

Elaine Long is a partner in Matheson’s Financial Institutions Group. She provides specialist advice in connection with corporate and regulatory issues for financial institutions with a particular focus on insurance. Elaine has extensive experience in advising on business transfers and amalgamations involving insurers. She also regularly advises insurers and other financial institutions on the regulatory aspects of establishment and authorisation, corporate governance and re-organisations. Elaine joined Matheson in 2006. Prior to joining the Financial Institutions Group, Elaine worked in the Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Group in Matheson, where she advised on contentious and non-contentious corporate insolvency matters. During her time in Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Elaine regularly advised financial institutions on insolvency proceedings, the enforceability of set-off rights and the invalidation of security following insolvency. Prior to joining Matheson, Elaine worked in PwC, qualifying as a Chartered Tax Advisor during that time. · Financial Institutions

Elizabeth Grace

Liz Grace is a partner at Matheson with a background in financial services law. Liz was appointed communications strategy director at the firm in 2016. Liz’s background in investment funds law stems from several years of practice in the area, working from early on in her career in 2000 with Matheson’s global asset management client base in the establishment, operation and re-structuring of Irish domiciled investment funds. Following on from that, she established the first dedicated knowledge management function at practice level with the Asset Management and Investment Funds team in Matheson, focussing on the law and regulation of investment funds and asset managers, in particular in relation to emerging European and Irish legal and regulatory developments affecting asset managers and investment funds. In 2012, Liz wrote the first university Funds Law syllabus in Ireland for Maynooth University. Liz’s postgraduate qualifications include a master’s degree in law from Oxford University. · Investment Funds

Emma Doherty

Emma Doherty is a partner and a member of the US Business and Inward Investment Groups at Matheson. Emma practises corporate law and regularly spends time in the US with her clients. She works with international companies on the establishment, expansion and operation of their businesses in Ireland. Emma also advises clients on the complex legal issues that can arise on international transactions involving Irish subsidiaries of foreign companies, including advising on a broad range of corporate reorganisations. Emma regularly leads group-wide multi-jurisdictional international restructuring projects. Emma also advises corporate clients on a broad range of contract, corporate governance and business-related issues, including directors' duties and compliance matters. In addition, she provides ongoing corporate advice and strategic counselling to clients, including advice in relation to distributions and complex cash repatriation strategies. Emma is a member of the Company Law Review Group, the statutory advisory expert body charged with advising the Minister for Business, Enterprise & Innovation on the review and development of company law in Ireland. · Corporate / M&A

Emma Trainor

Emma is a senior associate in the Commercial Disputes and Investigations Group and the ESG Advisory Group with experience in advising in complex energy related disputes, environmental and all aspects of commercial and financial services, shareholder and regulatory disputes. Emma has extensive experience in financial services having completed a 10 month secondment with Pepper Finance Corporation (Ireland) DAC in 2020. Emma was also previously seconded to the Central Bank of Ireland for six months in 2016 working in the Regulatory Decisions Unit on a large Inquiry under the Central Bank's administrative sanctions procedure. Emma regularly advises financial institutions and receivers in high profile summary judgment proceedings (including injunctive action) in the commercial court. This includes advising in relation to distressed loans involving non-cooperative borrowers, the obtaining of freezing orders, and the enforcement of security and related court proceedings including the initiation of bankruptcy proceedings following judgment orders obtained in the commercial court and the initiation of possession proceedings to secure vacant possession of secured assets, including issuing injunction proceedings against persons unknown residing in a secured asset and taking steps for attachment and committal of borrowers/occupants following non-compliance with Court Orders. Emma regularly advises in relation to shareholder disputes requiring, in some cases, the commencement of injunctive proceedings to prevent certain actions being taken vis a vis minority shareholders. Emma also regularly advises on planning applications, including legal reviews of the application documents such as EIAR and NIS. She also advises on planning process and strategic infrastructure development procedure and gives workshops to developers on key planning issues and recent cases. Emma also has experience advising clients in relation to complex and high value commercial disputes both cross-border and domestically including multi-party, multi-jurisdictional litigation. · Litigation

Enda Garvey

Enda is a partner in the Corporate M&A Group. He specialises in international and domestic public and private M&A, private equity transactions and corporate reorganisations and debt and equity fundraisings. He has extensive private equity experience and has advised on many of the most high profile investments made by international private equity funds in Ireland in the past 5 years. Alongside his private equity practice, Enda advises a number of domestic and international corporate clients on their corporate and transaction activity, in the energy and infrastructure and agri-food and beverage sectors. · Corporate / M&A

Eunan Hession

Eunan is partner in the Asset Management Department at Matheson. He practices financial services law and advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, investment banks and asset management companies carrying on business through Irish domiciled investment funds and Irish domiciled management companies. Eunan advises a range of domestic and international clients on the establishment, authorisation, operation and ongoing regulatory compliance of all types of investment funds in Ireland, including UCITS, AIFMD structures and hedge funds. Eunan also advises fund service providers on their regulatory and compliance matters. Eunan also has extensive experience of advising on the establishment and authorisation of UCITS management companies and alternative investment fund managers in Ireland. Eunan’s experience includes advising on the implementation of regulatory updates to fund structures following the introduction of various European financial services directives, cross border mergers and the ongoing servicing of Irish fund structures. Eunan has completed a secondment with one of the world’s largest asset managers in London. · Asset Management

Fergus Bolster

Fergus Bolster is a partner in the firm's Corporate M&A Group, where he focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate re-organisations (including corporate re-domiciliation and demerger transactions), financing transactions, securities law and corporate governance matters. Fergus has represented public and private corporations, institutional, private equity and venture investors, State bodies and investment banks, transacting in a variety of industries and sectors, including, in particular, technology, energy and healthcare. He has extensive experience advising US and other international clients on cross-border acquisitions of Irish companies, both public and private, migrations and capital markets transactions (undertaken domestically and by Irish companies listed on US and other foreign exchanges). Fergus counsels corporate clients on a broad range of governance and business-related matters, including directors' duties and responsibilities, disclosure obligations and compliance matters. This advice is often provided to boards and individual directors in situations where the satisfaction of their fiduciary duties may be subject to public scrutiny. · Corporate / M&A

Garret Farrelly

Garret is a partner and head of both Matheson’s Energy and Natural Resources Group and Projects and Infrastructure Group. Garret is also chair of Matheson's ESG Advisory Group. He advises on all aspects of projects and project financing, from PPPs to privately-financed electricity, oil, and gas field developments and privatisations as well as electricity, gas and telecommunications network infrastructure. Garret specialises in particular in the areas of electricity and gas market regulation and trading. Garret’s experience also includes project development, M&A and financing in the conventional and renewable electricity sectors as well as the mining and upstream / downstream oil and gas sectors. Garret is consistently listed as one of Ireland’s leading Energy lawyers, including in leading legal international directories such as Legal 500 and Chambers Europe. He is a frequent speaker at energy and infrastructure conferences and regularly contributes articles to specialist publications. Garret is listed in Energy Ireland’s "Who's Who in Irish Energy" (Energy Ireland Yearbook 2017, 2018 and 2019). · Energy & Natural Resources

Gavin Coleman

Gavin Coleman is director of the financial administration services and compliance team at Matheson. Gavin has gained extensive experience advising on all aspects of a company secretarial nature to a wide range of the leading Irish and international financial institutions, investment banks and asset management companies carrying on business in Ireland or through Irish vehicles. Gavin has provided company secretarial advice in a variety of domestic and cross-border corporate, commercial and financial services transactions and matters. Gavin's work consists of direct involvement in all matters of a company secretarial nature on such transactions and other company law compliance matters. Gavin and his team provide a comprehensive and quality company secretarial, company law compliance, and corporate governance best practice service and are responsible for the maintenance of the statutory records and public filings for many of the leading Irish and international financial institutions, investment banks, asset management companies, UCITS and non-UCITS investment companies, private limited companies, unlimited companies and companies limited by guarantee. Gavin is a member of the ICSA and the Institute of Directors in Ireland. · Company Secretarial

George Brady

George is a partner in the firm's Corporate Department. He has advised on many of the most significant Irish corporate transactions of recent years including: Allergan’s $66 billion merger with Actavis; unsuccesful bid to acquire eircom from examinership on behalf of an international telecommunications group; the Actavis $8.5 billion acquisition of Warner Chilcott; the $6.5 billion hostile bid by Royalty Pharma for Elan Corporation; Medtronic’s proposed $42.9 billion acquisition of Covidien plc; Eaton Corporation’s $11.8 billion acquisition of Cooper Industries; the $5.6 billion merger of Questcor and Mallinckrodt; Babcock & Brown on its €2.3 billion acquisition of eircom; and the $2.6 billion acquisition of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals by Endo International. George previously worked in the London office of a leading international law firm and has been a partner since 2003. · Corporate / M&A

Geraldine Carr

Geraldine is a partner in the Employment, Pensions and Benefits Group. She provides strategic, practical and commercially focussed advice to international and domestic clients on all aspects of employment law. Her practice spans a variety of sectors, including technology, financial services and pharmaceuticals. Geraldine has extensive experience advising in relation to the management of employees on a day to day basis, including the drafting and implementation of contractual documentation and employment policies and procedures, as well as guiding employers through crisis management issues in the context of workplace investigations, misconduct allegations, grievances, bullying, harassment, and performance management procedures. Geraldine has particular expertise in advising clients on senior executive appointments and terminations, particularly in regulated industries, as well as case managing employment injunctions and defending claims before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Circuit Court and the High Court. She provides pragmatic advice on the employment law aspects of corporate restructurings, outsourcings, and individual and collective redundancy situations. Geraldine worked with Matheson’s US client base from the firm’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices for six months in 2017 / 18. As a result, Geraldine has a deep understanding of the key distinctions between employment law in Ireland as compared with other jurisdictions. She frequently provides bespoke employment law workshops to clients. She is a regular speaker at conferences and a tutor at the Law Society’s professional practice course for trainee solicitors. She also regularly publishes articles on employment law matters. Topics on which she has recently written and spoken on include: “Fair Procedures and the Right to Cross Examination during Workplace Investigations”, “US Employers in Ireland: Key Distinctions Between the Employment Law Landscape in the US and Ireland”, “Recent Developments in Employment Injunctions”, “Common Pitfalls and Developing Trends in Employment Law in Ireland’, “Important Ruling Extends the WRC’s Powers to Disregard National Law that is Contrary to EU Law”, and various articles on Ireland’s workplace relations system. Geraldine is an active committee member of the Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI) and the Law Society of Ireland’s Employment and Equality Law Committee. She is also an active member of the American Bar Association’s International Labor and Employment Law section and the European Employment Law Association of Ireland. Geraldine originally qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser. · Employment

Gerry Thornton

Gerry Thornton is a partner in the Tax practice of Matheson. Gerry advises on all aspects of corporate tax. His main focus is the financial sector, including asset management, finance and asset finance, banking and investment banking, leasing, derivatives and insurance. Gerry frequently advises on mergers and acquisitions, tax litigation and tax disputes. Gerry takes an active industry role in developing Ireland’s financial sector. He is a member of the tax steering committee of Irish Funds, the representative body for the international investment fund community in Ireland, and is chair of Irish Funds' international tax working group. Gerry has been closely involved in financial sector consultations on Finance Bill amendments to Irish tax legislation for many years, including the 2011 and 2016 amendments to the Irish securitisation regime and the 2016 and 2019 amendments to the Irish real estate funds regime. In 2014, Gerry was closely involved in the introduction of the ICAV. Gerry is the author of the Irish chapter of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation's publication on permanent establishments. Gerry lectures frequently on financial services tax matters. Gerry is a qualified solicitor and a qualified tax consultant and is a member of the Law Society of Ireland and the Irish Taxation Institute. Gerry has previously worked in the group tax department of an investment bank in the City of London. · Tax

Gráinne Boyle

Gráinne is a partner in the firm’s International Business Group. Gráinne practices Irish corporate law, with a primary focus on advising US and other international clients establishing operations, and doing business in and from Ireland. Gráinne provides advice in relation to inward investment projects, providing insights on the Irish legal considerations associated with establishing operations and headquarters in Ireland. Gráinne also provides ongoing corporate governance advice in connection with the day-to-day operation of Irish businesses. As part of this role, Gráinne acts as an external board advisor, and provides strategic advice on best corporate governance practices. Gráinne regularly advises multinationals in implementing global reorganisations (including post-acquisition integration and consolidation projects, spin-off transactions, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions). Gráinne advises on the complex legal considerations and issues that can arise for Irish subsidiaries on such multi-jurisdictional restructurings. As a result of her key relationship role with clients and international law firms in this location, Grainne regularly travels to the US and was previously seconded to Matheson’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. · Corporate / M&A

Gráinne Callanan

Gráinne Callanan leads Matheson’s Cork office and is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group. Gráinne advises a wide range of leading domestic and international financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland including life and non-life (re)insurance companies, captive insurers and intermediaries on corporate transactions, regulatory and compliance and corporate governance. Gráinne has extensive expertise in the areas of new authorisations, portfolio transfers, cross-border mergers, corporate restructurings, distribution arrangements and health insurance. She has advised on a wide range of innovative transactions in the insurance market in recent times and has taken a leading role advising clients on a number of significant acquisitions of closed books of life insurance businesses. Gráinne lectures at the Law Society of Ireland and the Insurance Institute of Ireland. Gráinne is also a member of the Cork Financial Services Forum. · Insurance

Hilda Wrixon

Hilda is a partner in the Commercial Real Estate Department at Matheson with broad experience in all areas of commercial real estate, including: sales and acquisitions; commercial leasing including retail, office and industrial leasing; development projects in respect of office, industrial and data centre buildings; and landlord and tenant matters. Hilda regularly advises US technology and pharmaceutical companies on real estate aspects of the establishment and expansion of their Irish and EMEA branches and negotiated related lease documentation. She is experienced in data centre development and leasing as well as in related site acquisition and represents several clients in the industrial and logistics sector in negotiating agreements for lease and leases of bespoke mixed use industrial and office space. Hilda has extensive experience advising institutional landlords in respect of the leasing and management of prime Dublin office space. Hilda also advises on the real estate aspects of corporate transactions, managing large scale real estate due diligence, drafting and negotiation of real estate warranties for share sale and purchase agreements, and property transfers following asset sales and corporate spin-offs. · Real Estate

Ian O'Mara

Ian is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group, specialising in financial services regulation. Ian has advised payment institutions, electronic money institutions, credit institutions, MiFID investment firms, and other financial institutions and investors in the financial services sector on compliance with regulatory standards and the impact of new regulatory developments at Irish and EU levels. Ian is currently based in Matheson's London office. · Financial Services Regulation

Jenny Keenan

Jenny is a senior associate in the Corporate M&A Group at Matheson. Jenny has advised a range of leading domestic and international clients on many aspects of Irish corporate law including mergers & acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, private equity transactions, joint venture arrangements and general corporate advisory matters and has experience acting for both buyers and sellers. Having previously worked in a leading international law firm in London, Jenny has also advised international companies on both public and private corporate multi-jurisdictional matters across a range of sectors. · Corporate / M&A

Joe Beashel

Joe Beashel is a partner and Co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group and Head of Matheson’s London office. He is a solicitor with thirty years’ experience almost all of which were gained in the financial services sector. Before joining Matheson in 2004, he was the country head of the Irish fund administration unit of Invesco plc, a leading international investment manager. Joe and team assist clients with the authorisation of new financial service providers by the Central Bank of Ireland including banks, MiFID / investment firms, fund services providers, alternative investment fund managers, payment and e-money institutions, retail credit firms and others. He also assists client firms where they wish to expand their existing regulatory permissions. Working with corporate colleagues in the Financial Institutions Group, Joe and team assist with the merger and acquisition, private equity investment and divestment of Irish regulated firms. Drawing on his extensive industry experience, Joe provides practical advice and assistance to boards of directors, senior management, in-house counsel and compliance officers in relation to the impact of new regulation. He assists clients in the effective and timely implementation of any required changes and works to provide a robust assurance that implementation meets legal requirements. Joe and his team assist clients to carry out reviews of their process and procedures covering issues such as anti-money laundering, MiFID suitability, client assets requirements. He assists clients prepare for interview by the Central Bank of Ireland as part of its “Fitness and Probity” framework. He also assists clients prepare for supervisory inspections. When issues arise he assists clients in assessing the legal and regulatory impact and helps develop remediation plans. Where the Central Bank initiates its administrative sanctions process he works with clients to minimise the impact of any sanction imposed. For sanctions processes he works very closely with Matheson litigation colleagues. Joe has spoken and written extensively on financial regulatory related matters over many years. He co-ordinates the drafting of course materials for the Institute of Bankers of Ireland Professional Development (Level 3) qualification. He published a MIFID Directory (for MIFI 1 and 2) and a Fitness and Probity Handbook. · Financial Services Regulation

Joe Duffy

Joe is a partner in the Tax Department at Matheson. Joe has extensive experience in corporate tax law and advises on international restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, tax controversy and transfer pricing. Joe speaks regularly on international tax matters in Ireland and abroad. He has also written on international tax matters, transfer pricing and tax controversy for publishers including IBFD, Kluwer, Thompson Reuters. Joe is the Ireland editor of the Bloomberg Double Tax Treaty Series. Joe has been an active participant in the American Chamber of Commerce tax working group for many years. Joe is a qualified solicitor, chartered accountant and tax advisor in Ireland and has qualified as an attorney in New York. Joe has previously worked in a Big 4 accountancy practice and as in-house tax counsel for a US multinational. · Tax

John Coary

John is a partner in the Corporate M&A Group. John specialises in corporate transactions (both domestic and international) including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements, equity fundraisings, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and restructurings, corporate redomiciliations and general commercial matters. He advises leading Irish and multi-national public and private companies on private M&A and public company transactional mandates. John has particular experience in the Life Science and Aviation sectors, having worked on many significant corporate transactions in these sectors in recent years. · Corporate / M&A

John Gill

John Gill is a partner and head of the Private Client Department at Matheson. He advises individuals and families on investment vehicles and appropriate trust structures for estate planning and asset protection purposes and he advises a number of domestic high net worth individuals on a wide range of taxation issues and domiciled and non-domiciled individuals with Irish tax concerns, including relocating to and establishing tax residence in Ireland, heading up the Group’s Relocation Services Offering. He advises executors, trustees and beneficiaries on all legal and tax issues arising in wills and the administration of estates and trusts both domestic and offshore. He has significant experience in estate and trust disputes advising trustees, executors and claimants. In particular, John has experience in advising on will challenges and will disputes under Section 117 of the Succession Act and acting for clients in the mediation of such disputes. John also has considerable experience on charity issues, including charity formation and governance. He also advises on capacity issues including powers of attorney and wards of court, and on the establishment of tax efficient trusts for incapacitated individuals. John is an Associate of the Irish Taxation Institute (AITI Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA)). He is a past Chair of the Irish branch of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists and the International Bar Association. He has also lectured to members of The Law Society, STEP and the Irish Taxation Institute on a wide range of estate planning issues and is a regular contributor to articles and journals on these matters. He is co-author of the Irish chapter of International Succession (4th edition 2015) by Oxford University Press, the Irish chapter of the European Lawyer Reference Series on Private Client Tax (3rd edition 2015) and the International Comparative Legal Guide to: Private Client 2015 (Global Legal Group). · Private Client

Julie Murphy-O\'Connor

Julie is a partner and co-head of Matheson’s Disputes and Investigations Group in Matheson. Julie advises on a wide range of contentious matters including corporate, commercial, aviation and financial services disputes and investigations as well as governance, including in regulated sectors. She specialises in cross-border disputes and fraud, asset recovery, enforcement and jurisdictional issues. Julie has significant expertise in shareholder disputes and contentious corporate restructuring and insolvency matters (for which she was ranked for many years) and regularly advises in relation to directors’ duties, corporate governance and risk. Julie is a CEDR accredited mediator. She was appointed to the Council of the Irish Commercial Mediation Association in 2019. She is a Certified Banking Director and a non-executive director of Dell Bank International DAC, where she also chairs its Remuneration and Nominations Committee. Julie was a non-executive director of Irish Semi-State company, Coillte DAC, from 2013 to 2022, by ministerial appointment, and chaired its Remuneration Committee. Julie is co-author of the Commercial Litigation Association of Ireland’s Practitioners’ Guide to the Commercial Court in Ireland and of the Law Society of Ireland’s Insolvency Law textbook. She is a frequent contributor to Irish and international legal publications and is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences. Julie was named Client Choice Award Winner for Asset Recovery (Ireland) in 2020. · Litigation