Lawyers in Ireland

John Cahir

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

John Coary

John is a partner in the Corporate M&A Group. John specialises in corporate transactions (both domestic and international) including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements, equity fundraisings, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and restructurings, corporate redomiciliations and general commercial matters. He advises leading Irish and multi-national public and private companies on private M&A and public company transactional mandates. John has particular experience in the Life Science and Aviation sectors, having worked on many significant corporate transactions in these sectors in recent years.

Matheson LLP

John Cuddigan

John is Head of RDJ’s Tax Practice and specialises in the provision of corporate and business tax advice to corporates and individuals. He has advised on all aspects of Irish direct and indirect taxation for companies and individuals and has significant experience in the areas of corporate restructuring, property development and investment transactions and restructuring, remuneration strategies and tax structuring of businesses in Ireland. John also has extensive experience in taking of tax appeals before the Tax Appeal Commission and the High Court. John has lectured extensively and presented seminars on various tax matters for the Irish Tax Institute and the Law Society of Ireland and is the current Chairman of the Taxation Committee of Law Society of Ireland. He was co-author of the Institute publication on the Irish Finance Act (FINAK) from 2008 to 2014. He is also a member of the taxation committee of the CCBE (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe).

RDJ LLP

John Dallas

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

John Donald

John is Head of our Restructuring and Insolvency Group and advises clients on all aspects of Irish insolvency and restructuring law and procedures, and related special situations and transactions. John specialises in restructuring and insolvency law, with particular emphasis on corporate restructuring, through both formal and informal procedures. He has represented clients of the firm with respect to many of the highest profile and complex restructuring and insolvency cases in Ireland over the last twenty years, and has extensive experience in all aspects of company law, distressed M&A and the purchase and work-out of distressed debt assets. John represents all classes of creditors, debtors, investors, insolvency practitioners, regulators and other stakeholders in relation to the safeguarding of their interests, the discharge of their duties and the mitigation of risk and potential liabilities.

Arthur Cox LLP

John Dwyer

John is Head of the Real Estate Group. He advises clients on all aspects of acquisitions and sales of commercial properties. John has a deep understanding of the issues that arise in complex property transactions across a range of areas including the office, retail and hotel sectors. John has extensive transaction management experience having headed up the legal teams in a number of large scale loan sale transactions and other legal projects including property portfolio sales and purchases. John was Managing Partner of RDJ for eleven years from 2001 to 2012.

RDJ LLP

John Fitzgerald

Partner

Flynn O'Driscoll

John Gallagher

John is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He has extensive experience in financial services and regulatory law, with a particular focus on the establishment, operation and ongoing maintenance of all types of investment funds, including UCITS funds and AIFMD-compliant funds, across a broad range of strategies (including private equity style closed funds and liquid alternatives). He has worked on large master-feeder and managed account platforms and launched flagship ICAV platforms for large institutional asset managers and investment banks. John also advises service providers to funds, including AIFMs, fund management companies, investment managers and administrators and custodians on Irish legal, regulatory and compliance matters. He has particular experience in alternative and hedge fund structures authorised in accordance with AIFMD.

Maples Group

John Gill

John Gill is a partner and head of the Private Client Department at Matheson. He advises individuals and families on investment vehicles and appropriate trust structures for estate planning and asset protection purposes and he advises a number of domestic high net worth individuals on a wide range of taxation issues and domiciled and non-domiciled individuals with Irish tax concerns, including relocating to and establishing tax residence in Ireland, heading up the Group’s Relocation Services Offering. He advises executors, trustees and beneficiaries on all legal and tax issues arising in wills and the administration of estates and trusts both domestic and offshore. He has significant experience in estate and trust disputes advising trustees, executors and claimants. In particular, John has experience in advising on will challenges and will disputes under Section 117 of the Succession Act and acting for clients in the mediation of such disputes. John also has considerable experience on charity issues, including charity formation and governance. He also advises on capacity issues including powers of attorney and wards of court, and on the establishment of tax efficient trusts for incapacitated individuals. John is an Associate of the Irish Taxation Institute (AITI Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA)). He is a past Chair of the Irish branch of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists and the International Bar Association. He has also lectured to members of The Law Society, STEP and the Irish Taxation Institute on a wide range of estate planning issues and is a regular contributor to articles and journals on these matters. He is co-author of the Irish chapter of International Succession (4th edition 2015) by Oxford University Press, the Irish chapter of the European Lawyer Reference Series on Private Client Tax (3rd edition 2015) and the International Comparative Legal Guide to: Private Client 2015 (Global Legal Group).

Matheson LLP

John Hogan

Managing Partner, Head of Real Estate

Ogier

John Lynch

John’s practice is in the area of litigation and employment, benefits and pensions law. He is the firm's Managing Partner. He advises a range of businesses and organisations on commercial disputes, including shareholder disputes, contract claims, specific performance and insurance litigation. He also advises on all aspects of employment law, including redundancies, disciplinary procedures and the termination of senior executives’ service contracts.

Whitney Moore

John Magee

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

John Matson

John is a corporate partner and is Head of International at the firm. He specialises in corporate law and has a broad corporate and commercial practice including advising upon domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and other complex corporate transactions. John also deals with corporate reorganisations and migrations, loan portfolio acquisitions and sales and has significant experience in corporate governance matters for both regulated and unregulated entities. He also deals extensively with overseas clients and counsel on the establishment of business operations in Ireland and in respect of ongoing legal requirements and issues. He has particular experience and expertise in transactions and advisory work in the technology, energy and insurance and financial services sectors. John has, during the course of his career, headed up both our London and New York offices, headed up one of the firm’s M&A teams and has served on, and participates in, the firm’s Management Committee.

Arthur Cox LLP

John Milligan

Senior Associate

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

John Neeson

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

John Olden

John Olden is a partner in the Firm's Corporate Department. He has previously advised in relation to capital markets, in particular, debt capital markets, MTN programmes, commercial paper programmes, standalone debt issuance, and he has advised on equity capital market issuances by Irish companies. He has also advised on equity fundraisings and on public company take-overs. In the area of venture capital he has advised on the establishment and marketing of venture capital funds, ongoing relationships between the general partner and limited Partners and investments by venture capital funds. He has acted for Seroba Life Sciences, one of the two leading Irish life science venture capital funds since the establishment of the first fund in 2001, and most recently in relation to the establishment of the €100 million + Seroba Life Sciences Fund IV in December 2021.

Addleshaw Goddard

John O’Connor

John is a Partner in William Fry’s Technology Group, the most experienced technology law team in the Irish market. He specialises in complex and large scale technology and outsourcing transactions including systems integration and implementation arrangements, licensing, IT and business process outsourcings and cloud services. John is also a specialist in the area of privacy, data protection and cyber security law and advises on general compliance, data transfers, hosting, issue management and best practice. He has gained particular experience of advising technology, life sciences and financial services organisations on major outsourcings and on ‘big data’ projects including the procurement and deployment of FinTech.

William Fry LLP

John O’Donoghue

John is a partner specialising in real estate and leads the firms real estate group at Philip Lee. John advises leading property companies, investors, developers, local authorities, retailers and private individuals on the acquisition, development, management and disposal of commercial property. John has acted in many complex property transactions. He advises on all issues surrounding the acquisition, leasing and development of land and buildings. John also advises receivers and liquidators on insolvency related property issues and lenders and borrowers in real estate financing.

Philip Lee LLP

John O’Riordan

Partner, Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Dillon Eustace

John Walsh

John has wide experience in all aspects of commercial property law including advising on the construction law aspects of commercial transactions. John’s clients include developers, tenants, and purchasers. He has wide experience in relation to property investment and financing of new developments.

Arthur Cox LLP

John Whelan

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

John White

John is the managing partner of Beauchamps and is a partner in our corporate & commercial team. John leads the firm and is responsible for delivering our firm strategy which is to be market leader in Ireland in our chosen sectors. John has overseen significant growth in the firm and expansion in the range of legal services provided by the firm. John continues to works closely with Irish and international businesses (in the waste, retail and hotel & leisure sectors) and specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate re-organisations and restructurings and general commercial matters. John often collaborates with Beauchamps’ banking, litigation and property teams on restructuring, corporate deals and examinerships.

Beauchamps LLP

John Williams

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

John-Hugh Colleran

Partner, Banking and Capital Markets

Dillon Eustace