Lawyers in Ireland

Conor Owens

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Conor Treacy

Conor is a Partner in our Real Estate Department with 10 years' experience in the Irish real estate market. Conor advises on a broad range of commercial real estate activities, including sales and purchases, lettings and property financings. Conor has extensive experience in the acquisition and disposal of commercial property and has acted for high profile developers and landlords advising on the structuring and pre-lets for new retail and mixed-use schemes.

William Fry LLP

Conor White

Partner in the Employment Law Department

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Cora Fitzsimons

Managing Partner

Corrigan & Corrigan

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.

Arthur Cox LLP

Cormac Gilroy

Cormac is a banking and finance Director with over 10 years of experience in the industry. He has represented a large number of leading borrowers, domestic banks, international banks and non-bank lenders in relation to bilateral and syndicated facilities. Cormac is a collaborative team player and leader with a focus on delivering for clients.

EY Law Ireland

Cormac Kissane

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

Arthur Cox LLP

Cormac Little SC

Cormac is a Partner and Head of William Fry’s Competition & Regulation Department, specialising in EU and Irish competition, merger control and public procurement rules. He advises on the compatibility of business arrangements with EU and Irish competition laws and has represented clients in antitrust investigations by both the European Commission and the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and in proceedings before the European and Irish courts. Cormac has also secured Irish regulatory approval regarding many high-profile corporate transactions. He also advises both public bodies and disappointed bidders regarding challenges to contract decisions under public procurement rules. Cormac also has a broader regulatory focus. He advises clients on complying with anti-money laundering rules and on 'white-collar' crime issues. He has also been appointed as senior counsel by the cabinet.

William Fry LLP

Craig Kenny

Partner

Dentons Ireland LLP

Damian Doyle

Damian is a Partner, practising as part of our Dispute Resolution team with a particular focus on Insurance defence work. He is a highly skilled and experienced litigator who advises on employer’s liability, public liability, motor, defamation and medical negligence actions for both insured and non insured bodies. Damian also assists the employment law team advising state bodies in relation to a wide variety of matters. Damian’s attention to detail and understanding of our client's objectives, allows him to tailor a litigation strategy to arrive at the best possible outcome for the client. Prior to joining RDJ, Damian worked for one of the UK's leading litigation firms where he successfully defended high-level personal injury actions.

RDJ LLP

Damian Maloney

Damian is a partner in Beauchamps' Corporate, Commercial and M&A department, who joined Beauchamps in November 2018 having previously worked as in-house counsel for Oracle Corporation's EMEA operations. As a result, he brings valuable insight and strategic experience, having "been the client". Damian originally qualified as a barrister in 2000. Experienced in all areas of corporate and commercial law, Damian's recent focus has been on complex commercial contracts (cross industry but with particular expertise in the technology space), data protection, franchise agreements, M&A, and cross-border structuring.

Beauchamps LLP

Damien Young

Damien heads the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution group, handling commercial disputes across a broad range of areas including data protection, public procurement and construction law. He has acted for a large number of public and private sector clients in High Court judicial review proceedings involving challenges to the award of public contracts. Damien advises on all aspects of EU and Irish data protection law, privacy and defamation matters. He acted for Ireland’s Data Protection Commission in the Schrems I and Schrems II litigation that resulted in decisions of the European Court of Justice setting aside the “safe harbour” and “privacy shield” regimes for EU/US data transfers.

Philip Lee LLP

Dan Morrissey

Counsel

Dechert LLP

Daniel Cashman

Daniel is partner and head of Beauchamps' Banking & Finance team with extensive experience in all facets of corporate lending, including acquisition finance, construction finance, project finance and secured lending. Daniel works with Irish and international financial institutions and has broad expertise in lending transactions with senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt tranches; multi-jurisdictional lending transactions; intercreditor arrangements; acting for the sellers and buyers of loan portfolios; security reviews; receiverships, examinerships and structured workouts.

Beauchamps LLP

Daniel Holohan

Partner, Corporate

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Daniel Lawler

Philip Lee’s Financial Services and Investment Funds team is led by Daniel Lawlor. Daniel has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services regulation and compliance. That experience has been gained both in private practice and as a securities regulator in the Central Bank of Ireland where he was Head of the Funds Policy Team. Within the investment funds industry, Daniel has assisted clients with both retail investor and professional/qualifying investor fund products, including Exchange-Traded Funds. Within financial services more broadly, Daniel has worked with fund service providers, investment firms, payment services firms, digital asset/crypto asset firms and EIIS managers.

Philip Lee LLP

Daniel McLoughlin

Partner in the Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution Departments

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

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.

Arthur Cox LLP

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.

Arthur Cox LLP

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.

Arthur Cox LLP

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.

Matheson LLP

Darach Connolly

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Daragh O’Shea

Partner, Head of Debt Capital Markets

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Dario Dagostino

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP