Eimear Fitzgibbon

Eimear is a partner in the real estate department and advises both international and domestic clients. She specialises in commercial property law, acting variously for development companies, institutional clients, funders and investors. She has worked in the sector for 16 years and has advised a wide variety of high profile clients on the purchase, acquisition, leasing and disposal of commercial property for development such as hotels, residential housing estates, office blocks, petrol filling stations and golf courses. Her work also involves advising large institutional clients on the property related aspects to key infrastructural projects such as the construction of various schools throughout the country by way of PPP. Eimear acts for a number of clients in the renewables sector in areas such as windfarms, waste water treatment plants, hydropump stations and electric charging stations. She has also advised on the various options open to windfarmers in the event of re-powering a plant. In tandem with her property work she regularly advises on the commercial lending aspects to the various deals and would frequently advise funders on taking security over property assets within the State. She has acted for both receivers and liquidators in disposing of land and would regularly advise clients on property related aspects to corporate restructure deals. · Philip Lee LLP