Lawyers in Ireland

Eleanor Cunningham

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Eleanor MacDonagh

Co-Head of Tax

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Elena O’Driscoll

Solicitor in the Healthcare Department

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Elizabeth Bradley

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

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.

Matheson LLP

Elizabeth Ryan

Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Elizabeth Ryan

Partner, Banking and Finance

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Ellen Healy

Solicitor in the Healthcare Department

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Emily Mac Nicholas

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Emily Sexton

Partner in the Litigation and Employment Departments

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Emma Comyn

Partner in the Property and Probate Departments

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Emma Conaty

Emma heads the Global Registration Services team within the Funds & Investment Management Group in the Dublin office. She has particular expertise in the cross-border distribution of UCITS and (onshore and offshore) AIFs globally including Europe, Asia Pacific, the Americas, the Far and Middle East (whether by way of private placement or publicly through the European Passport or local registration). Emma regularly advises promoters, fund managers and investment banks which operate UCITS, ETFs and AIFs on the initial market entry process (including any permitted pre-marketing activities) as well as ongoing maintenance filing requirements to ensure continued compliance and market access.

Maples Group

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.

Matheson LLP

Emma Heron

Emma is a partner and Head of Whitney Moore's Real Estate and Private Client teams. She advises in relation to the acquisition, disposal and refinancing of various types of property, probate administration, wills, wardship applications and related property matters.

Whitney Moore

Emma Keegan

Emma is head of Beauchamps’ litigation & dispute resolution team with considerable experience of contractual and commercial dispute resolution, acting for both major financial institutions as well as State bodies, with considerable expertise in professional negligence claims and advises insurers and commercial clients in this area. She is also an expert in the area of legal project management and works with financial institutions on large-scale litigation and investigative regulatory projects. In 2019, Emma was the sole Irish winner of the Client Choice award for litigation and dispute resolution.

Beauchamps LLP

Emma Martin

Of Counsel

A&L Goodbody LLP

Emma Morrison

Emma is an associate in Whitney Moore's Dispute Resolution team. She has extensive experience in litigation and dispute resolution with particular expertise in debt and asset recovery. She primarily acts for lending institutions in Circuit Court and High Court proceedings relating to the enforcement of security. Emma also advises private clients in relation to probate administration and wills.

Whitney Moore

Emma Richmond

Emma is Managing Partner and Partner in Whitney Moore's Employment, Immigration and Pensions team. She is an experienced litigation solicitor, with expertise in defence litigation and dispute resolution, and with particular specialist expertise in employment and immigration. Emma advises both employers and employees on all aspects of the employment relationship from appointment through to termination. She regularly appears, on behalf of clients, before the Workplace Relations Commission and the Courts representing them in a range of disputes including unfair dismissal actions, discrimination claims and breach of contract actions. Emma also works closely with HR professionals and in-house management teams advising on day-to-day issues such as bullying and harassment, absenteeism, as well as restructuring and redundancies. She is an experienced public speaker and delivers seminars to clients and provides tailored training to in-house management teams in such areas as data protection, advising on the necessary steps to be taken by employers in protecting personal data collected in the course of their business. With the growth in foreign direct investment in recent years, and with a number of multinationals as clients, Emma has developed her immigration practice advising on and processing work permit applications for corporate clients.

Whitney Moore

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.

Matheson LLP

Emmet Scully

Emmet is an experienced corporate lawyer with expertise advising on a variety of M&A and private equity transactions, as well as corporate and private equity structuring. Emmet’s expertise includes corporate restructuring, private equity and venture capital transactions, venture capital investment structures, M&A transactions, joint ventures, and shareholders' agreements. Emmet is the co-author of "The Law and Practice of Irish Stamp Duty" and the editor of the annual stamp duty legislative update both of which are published by the Irish Taxation Institute. He regularly provides support to tax advisers and other solicitors on technical stamp duty issues. Emmet is the former Chairman of the Taxation Administration Liaison Committee Audit Sub-committee and former member of the Taxation Committee of the Law Society of Ireland.

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Emmet Whelan

Partner, Employment Law

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

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.

Matheson LLP

Enda Hurley

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Eoghan Browne

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP