Lawyers in Ireland

Anthony Gaskin

Anthony Gaskin is a partner in the Asset Management Department at Matheson. He practices corporate and financial services law and advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, sponsors, investment banks, asset management companies and service providers carrying on business in Ireland or through Irish fund vehicles. Anthony has advised a wide range of clients on the structuring, establishment and marketing of investment vehicles and products in Ireland and other jurisdictions. He advises on many types of Irish and European investment structures, including UCITS and Alternative Investment Funds (both unregulated and regulated) across multiple asset classes. Anthony also advises sponsors and fund managers in relation to co-investment structures associated with Alternative Investment Funds, as well as carried interest, employee participation and other incentive arrangements associated with such funds. Anthony also regularly advises on direct lending structures as well as on fund mergers and other types of fund restructuring projects. Anthony also advises on the Irish interpretation and implementation of European financial services legislation, including in relation to sustainable finance initiatives, the ELTIF Regulation and AIFMD II. He regularly advises on the marketing of Irish funds in EEA member states and other jurisdictions. Anthony is actively involved at industry level in Ireland and sits on a number of committees of Irish Funds, the industry association in Ireland, and also regularly presents at industry events, both in person and online.

Matheson LLP

Anthony O’Hanlon

Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Anthony Smyth

Head of Tax

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Antoinette Vahey

Antoinette is a Partner, practising as part of the Employment law team. She brings practical and strategic legal advice to clients in a range of areas such as wrongful and unfair dismissal; discrimination; absenteeism and work-related stress; performance management; temporary and contingent workers; collective redundancies; restrictive covenants and severance agreements. Antoinette represents clients on employment claims in the Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court and High Court together with gender discrimination claims in the Circuit Court. Having qualified as a mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in 2013 (specialising in employment and workplace disputes), Antoinette is focused on expanding RDJ’s independent mediation offering to provide the best solution to our clients. Antoinette is particularly interested in the areas of transfer of undertakings (TUPE ), Vetting and social media in the workplace and has spoken extensively at various events on legislative and other changes in those areas. She also devises in-house training sessions and policies for clients in respect of grievance and disciplinary matters, dignity at work and social media.

RDJ LLP

Aoife Bradley

Aoife’s practice is primarily focused on contentious employment law matters and commercial litigation. Aoife is an experienced practitioner in the area of employment related disputes involving senior executives and pension and employee benefit related disputes. She has considerable experience in the area of unfair dismissal, employment injunctions, discrimination, redundancy, bullying and harassment and stress related matters, disciplinary investigations and proceedings. As part of her practice, Aoife regularly assists clients in developing risk management strategies in respect of employment and litigation issues. She also provides ongoing support to a range of domestic and multi-national clients on non-contentious employment law matters. Her approach is to provide practical advice and solutions that work for clients. Aoife also has considerable experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution to include contractual disputes, commercial disputes and professional negligence claims defending solicitors, architects and engineers. Aoife is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences on employment issues and has had articles published on a wide range of topical employment law related matters.

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Aoife Gallagher-Watson

Aoife is a senior lawyer specialising in employment law who draws on top-tier and in-house experience to provide pragmatic and strategic legal advice to clients. As a trusted advisor to national and international boards and leadership teams, Aoife regularly advises on a range of contentions and non-contentious matters, including workplace investigations, cross border mergers, disciplinary processes, employment and safety aspects in M&A, contract negotiations, legislative obligations, individual/collective redundancies and corporate immigration. Her approach is to work closely with clients to achieve tailored, practical and commercial solutions.

EY Law Ireland

Aoife Hearne

Partner, Property

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Aoife Malone

Senior Associate

A&L Goodbody LLP

Aoife McDonagh

Aoife is a Partner in Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. She acts for a wide range of funds and service providers and has extensive experience in advising on the establishment, authorisation and operation of all types of Irish investment funds, in particular, UCITS and QIAIFs. Aoife also works with fund service providers in connection with depositary, administration and other service agreements. In addition, Aoife has experience in advising both lenders and borrowers on fund financing transactions.

Maples Group

Aoife Mooney

Solicitor in the Healthcare Department

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Aoife Murphy

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Aoiffe Moran

Consulting Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

April McClements

April McClements is a Partner in the Disputes and Investigations Group. April is a commercial litigator and specialises in insurance disputes. She is recognised by Legal 500 as a “Leading Individual” for Insurance and has won Insurance Lawyer of the Year twice at the EMEA Women in Business Awards. She is ranked by Chambers & Partners for Insurance Disputes. April advises on the full spectrum of insurance disputes, in particular complex coverage disputes, across all lines of business. She also advises on policy wording interpretation and drafting, D&O claims, professional indemnity claims (including any potential third party liability), cyber, W&I and emerging risks, and subrogation claims. April manages large scale complex commercial disputes, including high profile Commercial Court litigation and arbitrations (under international rules such as LCIA and ad hoc arbitrations). April has been involved in some of the most significant Commercial disputes in Ireland and most of the precedent setting cases in the area of insurance disputes in the last number of years. April is a member of the Law Society of Ireland, the Insurance Institute of Ireland and the British Insurance Law Association. She is a regular contributor to industry publications and speaker on insurance issues.

Matheson LLP

Ashling Walsh

Ashling leads the Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring Team, practising across the areas of corporate, commercial and insolvency. She uses her extensive knowledge of Irish company law to significant advantage in advising clients on both sale and acquisition sides of distressed companies. Ashling’s practice includes advising on all types of restructurings and insolvency law matters and has vast experience in advising insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, liquidators, examiners, receivers, debtors and distressed companies. She has many years of experience acting for financial institutions in the context of debt settlement arrangements and has advised in relation to a number of significant receiverships and liquidations. She also regularly advises on both examiners and petitioners with respect to the examinership regime. Ashling is recognised as a leading lawyer for Insolvency in The Legal 500 and is a member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners (ISIP). She lectures on the Law Society PPC 2 Insolvency course and has presented at a number of external seminars on insolvency matters. She has also co-written two chapters of the most recent edition of the Law Society’s insolvency manual.

RDJ LLP

Audrey Browne

Senior Associate

Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP

Audrey Byrne

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Audrey Colleran

Solicitor

Corrigan & Corrigan

Avril McNamara

Solicitor

Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP

Avril Scally

Partner, Head of Medical Negligence & Personal Injury

Lavelle Partners LLP

Barbara Galvin

Barbara is a Partner in William Fry’s Litigation & Investigations department, specialising in corporate restructuring and insolvency. Barbara has particular expertise in advising on all aspects of examinership, liquidation and receivership processes (contentious and non-contentious), acting for creditors, shareholders and directors as well as insolvency practitioners. Barbara’s more recent experience includes advising on a number of significant cross-border insolvency and restructuring processes. She also advises clients in complex commercial litigation matters.

William Fry LLP

Barbara Kenny

Barbara is a Partner in William Fry’s Corporate Department. She specialises in Mergers & Acquisitions, reorganisations and fundraisings. Barbara has written shareholder's agreements and spoken extensively on the Companies Act 2014 and the implications of same for Irish companies.

William Fry LLP

Barrett Chapman

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Barry Cahir

Barry is a seasoned litigator and insolvency expert who heads up Beauchamps' Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring team. Recognised for his commercial instincts and technical ability, he represents stakeholders and officeholders in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious insolvency and debt restructuring cases, with significant Irish and cross border experience. Barry is the is Deputy President of INSOL Europe. In addition he is the only Fellow of INSOL International in Ireland. He is also a former chairman of the Restructuring & Insolvency Ireland (RII).

Beauchamps LLP

Barry Conway

Barry is a Consultant in William Fry’s Corporate Department. He specialises in M&A, IPO, corporate restructurings, corporate finance, securities laws, company law, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, and contractual issues (including agency and distribution agreements).

William Fry LLP