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. · Matheson LLP