Lawyers in Ireland

Michelle Daly

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Michelle Daly

Michelle practices in Matheson's tax department, primarily advising clients in the financial sector, including asset management, aviation leasing, securitisation and debt capital markets and insurance. Michelle has spent time working in Matheson's New York office and has a particular expertise in advising Irish domiciled investment funds, including UCITS and QIAIFs, and their managers. Michelle also advises many fund managers who have invested in aviation assets, and alternative asset classes such as pharmaceutical royalties. In recent years, Michelle has worked on the establishment of a number of large direct lending fund platforms which are domiciled in Ireland.

Matheson LLP

Michelle Doyle

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Michelle Martin

Michelle is a Partner in our Litigation & Investigations Department and a member of our Environment & Planning Group. Michelle’s practice includes judicial reviews arising out of proposed major infrastructure projects, planning injunctions and planning oral hearings. Michelle also advises on environmental compliance investigations and prosecutions. Michelle is experienced in property and construction litigation and advises on compulsory purchase matters. Michelle is a member of the Firm’s Energy, Renewables & Utilities practice group.

William Fry LLP

Michelle McVeigh

Partner, Property/Real Estate

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Michelle Ní Longáin

Partner, Head of Employment Law and Head of Public Sector

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Michelle Ridge

Michelle is a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds Department at Matheson. Michelle practises Irish financial services law and advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, investment banks, asset management companies and service providers carrying on business in Ireland or through Irish vehicles. She has extensive experience in advising a wide range of domestic and international clients on the structuring, establishment, marketing and sale of investment vehicles and products in Ireland and other jurisdictions. In particular, Michelle advises on the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the establishment of AIF and UCITS structures, including hedge funds, managed account platforms, master feeder, fund of fund, complex and bespoke structures. She also advises on the structuring, offer and sale of investment instruments and investment products, the provision of investment advice and other financial services. Michelle has advised some of the world’s largest alternative investment managers on the implementation of AIFMD and also advised on the first inward AIFMD management passport into Ireland. She also has extensive experience in advising international clients in relation to UCITS’ legislative and regulatory developments. Michelle also has extensive experience in advising on the establishment of loan origination structures and advised on the establishment of one of the first regulated loan origination AIFs in Ireland. Michelle is the 2017 International Law Office Client Choice award winner for Banking Law in Ireland, a category that incorporates financial services.

Matheson LLP

Michelle Ryan

Michelle is a Partner within the firm’s Employment team. She has wide ranging experience advising on all aspects of employment law. Michelle also has built specialist expertise in Data Protection and Privacy issues and is a member of the Firm’s Cyber and Data Protection Team. Michelle's daily work involves providing strategic HR and employment law advice and support to her clients in the technology, pharmaceutical, charity/not for profit, healthcare and hospitality sectors, on issues including drafting contracts and policies and procedures; termination of employment, including redundancies; the conduct of internal investigations; performance management; transfer of undertakings; equality; work permits and intra-company transfers; issues associated with contingent workers; whistleblowing issues; organisation of working time; industrial relations; protective leave; severance agreements; sexual harassment and bullying and harassment. Michelle provides ongoing advice to multi-national and indigenous companies on their Data Protection obligations under the current legislative framework (including codes of practice and guidance from the Data Protection Commissioner) and identifying gaps against the new General Data Protection Regulation. Michelle is working with many clients to put in place remediation plans to achieve GDPR compliance, including reviewing existing privacy notices, data privacy policies and data transfer agreements. Michelle also provides commercially focused advices to her clients on data privacy matters such as data breaches, liaising with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, trans-border data flows, subject access requests and pre-employment screening and litigation arising from data privacy issues. Michelle is also recognised for having considerable experience in contentious matters and regularly represents clients before the courts, Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court. She also provides in-house training and information sessions for clients on areas such as grievance and disciplinary procedures, performance management, whistleblowing and GDPR.

RDJ LLP

Micheál Buckley

Micheál Buckley is a senior associate in the Finance and Capital Markets Department. He is an up and coming rising star with substantial experience across a broad variety of public and private transactions. Micheál advises international companies and financial institutions, asset managers, private equity firms, investment banks, arrangers, issuers and trustees on aspects of debt capital markets and structured finance transactions with an Irish connection. Micheál’s experience covers a range of debt finance work, including peer-to-peer and marketplace lending platforms, life settlement transactions, collateralised loan obligation transactions (CLOs), corporate bond issuances, loan origination structures, securitisations, MTN and repackaging programmes and other forms of structured finance products.

Matheson LLP

Micheál Grace

Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Miriam Delaney

Partner

Flynn O'Driscoll

Mona Costelloe

Partner, Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Morgan Dunne

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Morgan Pierse

Morgan is a partner in Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He specialises in corporate law and has a broad corporate and commercial practice including advising Irish and international clients on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity transactions, joint ventures, loan portfolio transactions and corporate reorganisations. Morgan's transactional experience and expertise lies across a vast range of industries, with a particular focus in recent years on the financial services and technology sectors.

Maples Group

Muireann Granville

Muireann is a Partner in our Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. Muireann advises on a wide variety of general and commercial litigation disputes including contract disputes, construction disputes and property litigation, disputes in relation to complex financial structures, professional negligence claims and intellectual property disputes. Muireann has worked on a number of complex high-value disputes before the Commercial Court and has particular expertise in the area of discovery, having managed several large-scale e-discovery projects. She regularly presents and publishes on the issue of legal professional privilege. Muireann has also advised in several mediations.

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Myra Garrett

Myra is a Corporate / M&A Consultant and former Managing Partner. She has a broad corporate practice specialising in corporate finance, particularly mergers & acquisitions, public takeovers, IPOs, public/private fundraisings and corporate structuring. She emerged as a leader via heavy involvement in Nasdaq and Irish Stock Exchange work during the technology boom in the late 1990s and remains one of Ireland’s leading M&A and IPO lawyers. She also advises companies and intermediaries on corporate governance, stock exchange rules, market abuse, the Prospectus Regulations, the Takeover Rules and general compliance.

William Fry LLP

Máire Cunningham

Máire is a senior partner in Beauchamps' Corporate, Commercial and M&A team. She has well over 25 years' experience in advising Irish and international clients on corporate transactions of all kinds - mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, MBOs, MBIs, venture capital and private equity investments, listings and multi jurisdiction corporate restructurings. Máire advises on all aspects of venture capital - working with investors and managers on the establishment, investment in and winding up of venture capital funds, as well as advising investors and investees on equity investments. She has worked with a significant number of companies from start-up stage advising on all aspects of business law as they develop and scale including fundraisings, employee incentive arrangements, commercial agreements and corporate transactions. Máire also advises on general partnership law. Máire is chair of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. She is a member of the Company Law Review Group (CLRG). The CLRG is a statutory advisory expert body charged with advising the Minister for Business, Enterprise & Innovation on the review and development of company law in Ireland. Máire is also head of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in Beauchamps.

Beauchamps LLP

Máire O’Neill

Máire is a Partner in our Corporate Department and Co-lead of the Firm’s Energy, Renewables, Infrastructure and Utilities practice group. She specialises in transactional corporate with a particular emphasis on private equity transactions (acting for both companies and investors) and M&A transactions involving technology, fintech and energy and infrastructure assets. Máire has vast experience in private M&A transactions as well as advising scaling and established companies and investors on equity investments in the Irish market as well as venture debt providers on the equity aspects of their funding. She also advises on a wide range of general corporate matters, including corporate restructurings (solvent and insolvent) including domestic mergers and capital reductions.

William Fry LLP

Naoise Harnett

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Neal Breslin

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Neil Bourke

Neil is a partner in our Real Estate Group in Ireland having joined the firm in January 2022. Neil has wide-ranging experience across all areas of commercial real estate including acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant matters, and development and property backed financing arrangements. He has particular expertise in commercial leasing matters and in recent times has worked on some of the most significant commercial lettings in Ireland. Neil advises a broad range of clients, including property funds, investors in PRS/BTR schemes, financial institutions, developers, care home providers, multinational landlords and tenants, and he regularly provides support to the firm’s Finance and Corporate Groups. Prior to joining the firm, Neil spent 9 years working in the Real Estate department of a leading Irish law firm.

Addleshaw Goddard

Neil Campbell

Partner, Head of Financial Services

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Niall Best

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Niall Campbell

Niall is a Consultant in William Fry's Insurance Department and advises insurance and reinsurance companies, as well as intermediaries, on all aspects of their business including new authorisations, M&A transactions, portfolio transfers, restructurings, corporate governance, policy document review, contractual negotiations and EU and Irish (re)insurance regulatory matters. Recent significant transactions include advising: Allied World, Athora, AXA, Catalina, Chubb, CNP Europe and Markel on various court sanctioned mergers and business acquisitions Phoenix Group on the Irish law aspects of the acquisition of Standard Life Aberdeen’s insurance arm Groups such as AXA, Chaucer, SCOR and Volkswagen on the authorisation of the respective Irish (re)insurance entities Various clients on Solvency II related issues including admissibility and categorisation of own-fund and ancillary own-fund items, Brexit related issues and outsourcing

William Fry LLP