Lawyers in Ireland

Barry Kelleher

Partner in the Healthcare & Litigation Departments

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Barry McGettrick

Barry is a partner in the tax group specialising in international tax. Barry advises on supply chain tax structuring, inward investment projects, corporate reorganisations, cross border taxation of senior executives, tax controversy as well as mergers and acquisitions. Barry advises a portfolio of international clients primarily in the ICT, life sciences, manufacturing, retail and industrial sectors. Barry speaks and writes regularly on international tax matters for the International Tax Review, Irish Tax Institute, International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA), International Bar Association (IBA), PLC, Law Society, Kluwer and Bloomberg. As well as being admitted to the roll of solicitors in Ireland, Barry is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales (non-practicing), is a qualified financial advisor and is a chartered tax adviser of the Irish Taxation Institute.

Matheson LLP

Barry O'Connor

Barry O'Connor is a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds Group at Matheson. He practices financial services law and advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, investment banks, asset management companies, broker-dealers and corporations carrying on business through Irish domiciled investment funds (ICAVs, investment companies, unit trusts, CCFs and ILPs) and Irish domiciled management companies (UCITS and AIFMs). Barry has extensive experience advising on the launch of UCITS and AIFs (stand-alone funds, umbrellas and third party manager platforms) across the full range of strategies, including plain vanilla strategies, hedge fund strategies, structured UCITS, fund of funds, money market funds, ETFs and master-feeders, and on their ongoing servicing (including the launch and termination of sub-funds, a change of service providers and listing on the Irish Stock Exchange). He is also experienced in more complex issues arising in the course of the life of a UCITS or AIF, including obtaining Central Bank approval for innovative fund mechanics and structures.

Matheson LLP

Ben Gaffikin

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Ben Rayner

Ben is Of Counsel in the Debt Finance Group and advises financial institutions, sponsors, funds and corporates on a range of domestic and cross-border financings. Ben has extensive experience advising lenders, borrowers and sponsors on a variety of financing transactions, including fund financing (subscription, asset backed and hybrid facilities), leveraged and acquisition financing and corporate lending. Prior to joining Arthur Cox, Ben worked for international law firms in London and has experience on secondment to the legal teams of an alternative asset manager and an investment bank.

Arthur Cox LLP

Bernard McEvoy

Bernard, a senior partner with Philip Lee, joined the firm in August 2020. Bernard, whose contact base in Dublin and the wider Irish market is second to none, is a keen and skilled negotiator always driving to look for solutions as opposed to problems. Prior to joining Philip Lee, Bernard was the managing partner and founder of McEvoy Corporate Law, and before this was a partner in an international law firm based in London where he set up and managed the Irish team of that firm. During his years of practice Bernard has built up extensive experience, skill and know-how in all areas where business and law interact.

Philip Lee LLP

Berni Hosty

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Billy Brick

Partner

Flynn O'Driscoll

Bláthnaid Evans

Partner, Head of Employment & Corporate Immigration

Philip Lee LLP

Breda O\'Malley

Consultant with extensive experience in advising clients of our Corporate and commercial and Employment Law departments. Breda has particular expertise in employment law, advising both employers and employees on all aspects of the employment relationship, including terms and conditions of employment, equality matters and industrial relations issues. She proactively works to resolve employment disputes in a conciliatory manner where feasible. Breda handles employment law claims directly herself without Counsel in the Employment Appeals Tribunal, the Equality Tribunal and other industrial relations fora. She has a wide range of experience in dealing with commercial disputes, with a focus on resolving them at the earliest stage possible. Her commercial litigation experience extends across the range of civil courts in Ireland. She has extensive experience of drafting and negotiating commercial contracts at the different levels of the business supply chain. She advises on a wide range of legal queries for businesses across a range of sectors including retail, logistics, aviation and others. Breda is a CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) accredited mediator and practices as a mediator of commercial and employment disputes. She is currently a Council Member of the Irish Commercial Mediation Association. She is also a member of One Resolve, a panel of accredited mediators with legal, financial and insurance expertise. She regularly gives management and staff training workshops and up-skilling practical seminars to employer business clients on employment law issues. She has presented widely to trade and professional groups and at high profile conferences on topics including outsourcing, shared services, agency workers and the Working Time Directive and TUPE regulations. Breda trained with Hayes solicitors and then worked as an in-house Solicitor in Coca Cola before spending 12 years practising commercial and employment law in a large Dublin firm. She rejoined Hayes as a partner in 2008.

Hayes Solicitors LLP

Brendan Colgan

Brendan is a Partner in the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department at Matheson and is a member of the firm’s Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Law Group. Brendan provides specialist advice to financial institutions, creditor groups, NAMA, receivers, examiners and companies on contentious and non-contentious corporate restructuring and insolvency matters. Brendan is a Council member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners and is also is a member of INSOL Europe and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Brendan lectures and tutors on insolvency law matters on the professional practice courses of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland and Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Matheson LLP

Brendan Cunnane

Partner, Real Estate

Dillon Eustace

Brendan Cunningham

Brendan is a Partner, practising as part of the firm's Banking and Finance team. He has experience advising in commercial property and banking acting both on behalf of banks but also on behalf of property developers, large companies, receivers, liquidators and examiners. Brendan specialises in all aspects of banking and finance, focusing on transactions in the areas of corporate lending, acquisition finance, asset financing, secured and unsecured lending, property finance, the restructuring/enforcement of loans and loan portfolio sales and purchases. Brendan is a Past President of the Southern Law Association, a member of the Council of the Law Society for the last 9 years, a former chairman of a division of its Regulation of Practice Committee and current vice- chair of its Education Committee. He is recommended as a leading Banking and Finance lawyer in The Legal 500.

RDJ LLP

Brendan Curran

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Brendan Moriarty

Brendan is a litigation specialist with over 30 years’ experience in plaintiff and defence litigation in the District, Circuit, High and Supreme Courts, acting both for private clients and financial institutions. Throughout this time, Brendan has acted for a number of Irish and UK-based banks and financial institutions and he has been involved in several cases which have established important precedents in areas such as consent in medical negligence actions and the enforcement of solicitors’ undertakings.

Whitney Moore

Brendan Murphy

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Brendan O’Brien

Bird & Bird

Brendan O’Connell

Brendan is a Partner, practising as part of the firms Dispute Resolution team. He is highly talented litigator who has gained considerable experience in dealing with the conduct of litigation and dispute resolution on behalf of national and international insurance companies, municipal authorities and state bodies, in the area of motor, employer liability, public liability and products liability claims. Brendan has developed particular expertise in insurance fraud and has successfully defended numerous high profile insurance fraud cases on behalf of Insurance clients. He has also developed a niche expertise in the area of Low Velocity Impact motor claims, and has had numerous notable successes for defendant clients in the Circuit & High Court. Brendan advises clients on a range of contentious matters including personal injury, contract, debt collection and property related matters. He has gained practical experience in all aspects of litigation procedure in all Court jurisdictions.

RDJ LLP

Brendan O’Connor

As a partner within the real estate department, Brendan has extensive and practical experience in representing a client base from institutional investors, developers, lenders, semi state bodies to private corporates and private individuals in relation to all areas of commercial and residential real estate.

Philip Lee LLP

Brendan Ringrose

Brendan is a partner in the Corporate Department of Whitney Moore. He advises leading international and Irish companies on Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Fundraisings and Stock Exchange admissions and listings. Brendan’s practice focuses on the Media, Natural Resources and Technology sectors. He has particular expertise in advising publicly listed companies on corporate transactions. Media: He represents leading international including United States headquartered media groups in acquiring businesses in Ireland. He also represents shareholders of Irish media groups in the sales of their businesses to international media groups. Technology: In the Technology Sector he advises on venture capital, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Natural Resources: he advises Irish along with American, Canadian and UK corporations (both listed and privately owned) in the Metals and Oil and Gas sectors. Brendan’s advice on the corporate side centres on Fundraisings, Mergers and Acquisitions (cash offers and schemes of arrangement for PLC's) and Stock Market Listings/Admissions.

Whitney Moore

Brendan Sharkey

Partner

Reddy Charlton LLP

Brendan Slattery

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Brian Baily

Partner and Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution Additional Practice Areas: Alternative Dispute Resolution Debt Recovery Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring Insurance & Professional Indemnity Privacy & Data Security Regulation

BHSM LLP incorporating OBH Partners

Brian Clarke

Partner

Dentons Ireland LLP