Lawyers in Ireland

Gavin Blake

Gavin is Head Partner within the Energy and Infrastructure Department. Gavin has over 15 years' experience advising clients in the energy sector in Ireland, in particular in relation to wind farm projects but also extending to projects in the fields of solar PV, bioenergy, energy storage, grid support services, demand side management, AD and CHP. Gavin works with developers, funders and investors from the preliminary site acquisition and consenting phase through to project finance and construction. In addition, he has acted in the purchase and sale of both development stage and operational stage renewable energy assets with a combined capacity in excess of 1,500MW. Recent experience includes advising: GridBeyond in the financing of its plans to develop a pipeline of behind the meter battery storage projects across the UK and Ireland via a project financing facility from Triodos Energy Transition Europe Fund. A Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation in the project finance of a series onshore Irish wind farm projects. Mainstream Renewable Power in its sale of a majority stake to Aker in a transaction which valued the business at €900m A number of developers of onshore wind, solar PV, battery and synchronous compensator projects in relation to development stage project pipelines in ROI of approximately c.500MW An international energy company in respect of its acquisition of a stake in one of Ireland's Phase One offshore wind projects.

Addleshaw Goddard

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.

Matheson LLP

Gavin Fitzgerald

Gavin is a partner in Ogier's Real Estate team in Dublin, Ireland. With more than seven years' post qualification experience, he advises on all areas of commercial property and, in particular, focuses on commercial development, property finance, acquisitions and disposals, commercial lettings and development structuring.

Ogier

Gavin Lawlor

Partner

Flynn O'Driscoll

Gavin O’Flaherty

Gavin is a Partner in William Fry’s Corporate / M&A Department. Gavin’s practice primarily focuses on domestic and global M&A, corporate reorganisations, venture capital and private equity investments. Within his general corporate and M&A practice he advises on strategic M&A mandates with particular sector focus on financial services (to include more particularly insurance companies), agri-food and healthcare companies. Gavin also has particular expertise in advising private equity houses on their investment into or acquisition of Irish corporates and has acted on a number of the largest private equity transactions in and through Ireland over the last number of years.

William Fry LLP

Gavin Smith

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Gavin Woods

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Gemma Freeman

Partner

Dentons Ireland LLP

Geoff Moore

Geoff has served as our Managing Partner since 2019. Prior to his current role, he served as Co-Head of our Corporate/ M&A Group specialising in mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory work for leading corporates. He has transactional experience across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus in recent years on the healthcare / pharma and financial services sectors. He has advised on many of the largest and most high profile M&A deals in Irish corporate history and is repeatedly recognised as one of the country’s leading corporate lawyers by leading independent publications, including Chambers Global/Europe, The Legal 500, IFLR and Who’s Who Legal. Previously, Geoff practised in the Corporate Finance Group of a leading New York firm. Key highlights include advising: on many of the largest/ most significant takeovers of Irish quoted companies including AbbVie/ Allergan, IAG/ Aer Lingus, Medtronic/ Covidien, Sumitomo/ Fyffes and Actavis/ Warner Chilcott a wide range of participants in distressed M&A matters, most particularly market-leading work on NPL portfolios for both selling financial institutions and private equity purchasers leading Irish corporates and their boards on complex corporate governance and strategic shareholder issues, particularly takeover defence and activist shareholder issues

Arthur Cox LLP

Geoffrey Fung

Solicitor

Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP

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.

Matheson LLP

Georgina Lanigan

Solicitor, Head of Asset & Debt Recovery

Lavelle Partners LLP

Georgina O'Riordan

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Ger Connolly

Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Ger O\'Toole

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Gerald Byrne

Eoghan has extensive experience advising on a range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, project finance, private equity and venture capital transactions, corporate re-organisations and management buy-outs. He also works with companies setting up in Ireland as part of our foreign direct investment offering. Eoghan regularly advises clients on corporate governance and compliance matters.

Philip Lee LLP

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.

Matheson LLP

Gerard Kelly

Partner, Head of Intellectual Property Law and Co-Head of Dispute Resolution

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Gerard Ryan

Gerard is a Partner in William Fry’s Corporate/M&A Department specialising in private company transactional work with a particular focus on cross border matters and technology related transactions and companies. Gerard has extensive mergers and acquisitions experience and also advises on private equity and venture capital investment and corporate reorganizations. He also has an expertise in advising on corporate governance, shareholder agreements and matters including contentious shareholder disputes.

William Fry LLP

Gerry Carroll

Gerry is a partner in Whitney Moore's Dispute Resolution team. He is a litigation specialist and has handled some of the largest and most complex cases to come before the Irish Courts. He also has extensive experience of international litigation practice involving European and US courts. While acting in commercial disputes for clients across a broad range of activities, Gerry has considerable experience of insurance, public liability, intellectual property, professional disciplinary and aviation litigation.

Whitney Moore

Gerry Gallen

Gerry is a partner in the Commercial Property department and practices in all aspects of commercial property and re-structuring. In particular, he advises on the acquisition, structuring and disposal of all commercial, retail, industrial and residential property, together with associated financing, insolvencies and work-out arrangements. Gerry acts for a wide range of institutions and insolvency practitioners in connection with the property / security aspects of their due diligence, financing, enforcement, work-outs, asset disposals and re- structuring. Gerry's clients include a range of lenders, insolvency practitioners, developers, sellers, tenants, investors, retailers, charities, sporting bodies and statutory authorities. In addition, Gerry facilitates the liquor licensing and events licensing requirements of all our entertainment and retail clients, and lenders and insolvency practitioners who require advice, court action or project management in respect of their interests in existing or newly developed licensed premises.

Beauchamps LLP

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.

Matheson LLP

Giles G. Smyth

Partner and Head of Commercial Real Estate Additional Practice Areas: Banking & Finance Charities Commercial Real Estate Construction & Projects Environment & Planning Food & Beverage Licensing New Homes Private Client Renewable Energy

BHSM LLP incorporating OBH Partners

Gill Cotter

Gill is a partner in the Commercial & Business team. She specialises in commercial litigation and dispute resolution, acting for a variety of private companies and financial institutions in the High Court and Commercial Court. She advises commercial clients on a broad range of matters including contract disputes, insolvency, enforcement and recovery actions, landlord and tenant disputes, and general litigation cases.

Hayes Solicitors LLP