Lawyers in Ireland

Gill Lohan

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Gillian Butler

Associate Solicitor

Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP

Gillian Keating

Gillian Keating leads RDJ’s Corporate and Commercial Department with over 25 years’ experience driving complex and high value M&A transactions. Gillian is ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers for her transaction and advisory work “a very strong practitioner, very good to deal with and very practical” Chambers 2022. Gillian is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Business and Law at University College Cork (UCC) and in 2017 received an Alumni Achievement Award from UCC. Gillian is a board member of Port of Cork Company and Chairs the Board of the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital. Gillian is a co-founder of the highly successful and award winning I WISH (Inspiring Women in Stem) social enterprise. I WISH is an initiative to inspire young women to consider careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) and in this way help address the skills gap in STEM www.iwish.ie. Over 50,000 female students from 28 countries have to date (2022) participated in the I Wish showcase events and campus weeks. From 2013 to 2019, Gillian was a member of the Governing Body of UCC and chaired the Audit Committee. Gillian is a past president of Cork Chamber of Commerce. Gillian encourages the corporate and commercial team at RDJ to continuously seek out and implement better ways of doing business that help drive our clients’ businesses forward.

RDJ LLP

Gillian McDonald

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Gillian O'Shaughnessy

Partner, Corporate

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Gina Aherne

Director

EY Law Ireland

Golda Hession

Golda is Of Counsel in the Corporate and M&A Group, and advises clients on all areas of corporate law, in particular on securities law, corporate governance, and ESG. Golda advises international and domestic companies, as well as State and semi-State bodies, on all aspects of corporate law and governance, and a wide range of commercial and regulatory matters. Golda has extensive experience advising on public and private M&A, equity capital markets transactions and in particular, on corporate governance, ESG and executive remuneration matters for many of Ireland’s largest listed issuers.

Arthur Cox LLP

Grace Murphy

Grace is partner in Beauchamps' medical negligence and personal injury team. Grace specialises in the area of medical and dental negligence. Grace has secured settlements and judgments at extremely high levels in clinical negligence and catastrophic injuries cases. She has particular experience and has acted for claimants in cases involving cerebral palsy, delayed diagnosis of cancer, wrongful death, birth injuries, dental negligence, surgical misadventure and catastrophic injuries. Grace has successfully concluded many cases where liability was strongly in dispute. She has vast experience in the court process and the tactical awareness required. In recent times, Grace has successfully employed the mediation process in order to bring to a conclusion a number of complex multi-party cases, involving difficult issues of causation.

Beauchamps LLP

Grace O’Connor

Partner, Asset Management and Investment Funds

Dillon Eustace

Grace Toher

Partner in the Litigation and Healthcare Departments

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Graham Quinn

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Greg Cooney

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Greg Flanagan

Partner, Head of Property

Lavelle Partners LLP

Greg Leddin

Solicitor

Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP

Gráinne Boyle

Gráinne is a partner in the firm’s International Business Group. Gráinne practices Irish corporate law, with a primary focus on advising US and other international clients establishing operations, and doing business in and from Ireland. Gráinne provides advice in relation to inward investment projects, providing insights on the Irish legal considerations associated with establishing operations and headquarters in Ireland. Gráinne also provides ongoing corporate governance advice in connection with the day-to-day operation of Irish businesses. As part of this role, Gráinne acts as an external board advisor, and provides strategic advice on best corporate governance practices. Gráinne regularly advises multinationals in implementing global reorganisations (including post-acquisition integration and consolidation projects, spin-off transactions, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions). Gráinne advises on the complex legal considerations and issues that can arise for Irish subsidiaries on such multi-jurisdictional restructurings. As a result of her key relationship role with clients and international law firms in this location, Grainne regularly travels to the US and was previously seconded to Matheson’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices.

Matheson LLP

Gráinne Callanan

Gráinne Callanan leads Matheson’s Cork office and is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group. Gráinne advises a wide range of leading domestic and international financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland including life and non-life (re)insurance companies, captive insurers and intermediaries on corporate transactions, regulatory and compliance and corporate governance. Gráinne has extensive expertise in the areas of new authorisations, portfolio transfers, cross-border mergers, corporate restructurings, distribution arrangements and health insurance. She has advised on a wide range of innovative transactions in the insurance market in recent times and has taken a leading role advising clients on a number of significant acquisitions of closed books of life insurance businesses. Gráinne lectures at the Law Society of Ireland and the Insurance Institute of Ireland. Gráinne is also a member of the Cork Financial Services Forum.

Matheson LLP

Gríana O’Kelly

Partner, Head of Corporate & Commercial

Lavelle Partners LLP

Hannah Devoy

Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Hannah Smullen

Legal Executive

Anne O'Connell Solicitors

Harry Fehily

Managing Partner

Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP

Hazel McDwyer

Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Helen Kilroy

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Hilary Marren

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Hilda O’Keeffe

Partner in the Healthcare & Litigation Departments

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP