Lawyers in Ireland

Caitlín Friel

Caitlín is Of Counsel in the Walkers Asset & Aviation Finance Group. Caitlín advises banks, financial institutions, international aircraft operating lessors, aircraft owners, financial arrangers and private equity groups on asset finance transactions. Caitlín has advised on the financing and leasing of both fixed wing and rotary aircraft including government-supported financings, secured lending, cross-border and operating leases, the purchase and sales of single aircraft and multi-aircraft portfolios, workouts and restructurings, debt finance and security matters, domestic and cross-border tax-driven leasing, pre-delivery financing and sale and lease-back financing. Caitlín also has experience on a wide range of cross border banking and finance transactions, including bilateral and syndicated lending, leveraged and acquisition financings and restructurings.

Walkers

Caitriona Carty

Caitriona is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. She advises on the establishment, operation and regulation of a wide spectrum of UCITS and AIFMD funds, with extensive experience in managed account platforms, closed-ended structures, alternative UCITS, LQIAIFs and other specialised fund products. Caitriona also advises asset managers establishing Irish authorised AIFMs, UCITS and MiFID management companies. Caitriona spent a number of years with the Group's law firm in Hong Kong providing Irish funds solutions to the Asian client base of investment managers seeking to raise capital from European investors and speaking regularly at industry events regarding European fund products.

Maples Group

Caitriona Gahan

Head of Wills, Probate & Estate Planning

Lavelle Partners LLP

Caitriona Kinane

Partner

Corrigan & Corrigan

Callaghan Kennedy

Callaghan is a partner of Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Callaghan advises arrangers, managers, investors and issuers on a wide range of finance, debt capital markets and structured finance transactions. He focuses particularly on structured products, such as CLOs and other asset backed securitisations, commodities, utilities, marketplace lending and other alternative asset class financings, as well as on repackagings and other programme issuers. Callaghan also advises on fund-linked structures, such as managed account platforms, loan funds and debt funds. He regularly advises on wider financial services and regulatory law, both in relation to regimes that impact structured finance transactions‒such as STS, securities offerings, market abuse, EMIR and risk retention‒ and on issues generally affecting financial services firms, such as like licensing and establishment, change of control and ongoing regulatory compliance.

Maples Group

Calum Warren

Calum Warren is a partner in the Competition and Regulation Group. Prior to joining Matheson, Calum worked at leading international law firms in Brussels and London. Calum advises on all aspects of Irish and EU competition and regulatory law including merger control, competition compliance and investigations, sector regulation, public procurement, state aid and general EU law. Calum has also gained in-depth experience in a range of sectors including financial services, telecommunications and media (TMT), agri-business, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, food & beverages and transport. Calum specialises in advising on and managing clearance strategies for M&A transactions before the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) and the European Commission, including transactions subject to in-depth Phase 2 investigations and remedies negotiations. His previous roles in Brussels and London also enable Calum to bring considerable multi-jurisdictional perspective to his advice. Calum also specialises in managing competition investigations before the CCPC and the European Commission, including representation during on-site inspections (‘dawn raids’), whistle-blower applications and follow-on litigation before the Irish and EU courts. Calum also has significant expertise in advising on competition compliance issues, including competitor collaborations, the competition aspects of distribution arrangements and technology transfer / IP arrangements and internal compliance programmes (including ‘dawn raid’ preparedness). Calum contributes articles to leading international legal publications and speaks regularly on EU competition issues.

Matheson LLP

Caoilfhionn Ní Chuanacháin

Caoilfhionn is a partner in the Dispute Resolution group. Caoilfhionn has extensive experience in both Commercial and High Court litigation and in particular in advising on financial services litigation such as the misselling of complex financial instruments and multi-jurisdictional funds related litigation. She also has expertise in professional negligence and recovery proceedings. She also advises on both the implementation and defence of insurance proceedings. Caoilfhionn has significant experience advising a number of major international retailers, as tenants, in relation to landlord and tenant disputes to include disputes with regard to alterations to the premises, the failure of the landlord to comply with obligations under Agreements for Lease, the negotiation of rent reductions and the defence of recovery of rent proceedings.

Addleshaw Goddard

Caoimhe Clarkin

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Caoimhe Heery

Partner

Flynn O'Driscoll

Carlo Salizzo

Partner

Dentons Ireland LLP

Carol Eager

Carol Eager is a Partner in our Corporate Department. Carol's practice focuses on advising both public and private companies, investment houses and venture capital organisations on a range of corporate law issues, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, private equity and venture capital investments and corporate governance. She is commercial and pragmatic and is the trusted advisor of a variety of Irish and international clients.

William Fry LLP

Carol Maguire

Partner

Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP

Carol Widger

Partner

Dechert LLP

Caroline Austin

Caroline is a partner in the Tax Department of Matheson. Caroline advises on cross border tax planning, transfer pricing, tax controversy matters and inward investment projects. Caroline also has extensive experience in international corporate restructurings as well as mergers and acquisitions on an international and national level. Caroline is co-author of the Irish Chapter of the IBFD's publication on Transfer Pricing. Caroline was previously seconded to the tax department of a multinational company. Caroline is a Chartered Tax Advisor and a member of the Law Society of Ireland.

Matheson LLP

Caroline Kearns

Caroline is a Corporate / M&A Partner and leads the corporate transactions/M&A team within the Financial Institutions Group. Caroline has extensive experience advising on a broad range of international and domestic corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investment, equity capital markets transactions and corporate reorganisations, with a particular focus on Financial Institutions and Insurance. Her clients include many of the world’s leading financial institutions and insurance market players. Prior to re-joining Matheson as a Partner in 2021, Caroline spent over 10 years working with two leading global law firms, primarily based in London, where she advised on a number of complex, high value, multi-jurisdictional deals. Caroline regularly acts for many of Europe’s leading Warranty and Indemnity underwriters, advising on the underwriting of high value international M&A transactions, as well as domestic Irish transactions, across all sectors. Caroline also counsels corporate clients on a broad range of governance and business-related matters, including directors' duties and responsibilities and general compliance matters.

Matheson LLP

Catherine Allen

Partner, Head of Public, Regulatory and Investigations

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Catherine Austin

Consultant

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Catherine Carrigy

Catherine is a Senior Associate in our Insurance & Reinsurance Department and holds a qualification in Law & European Studies.

William Fry LLP

Catherine Derrig

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Catherine Dowling

Partner, Corporate

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Catherine Galvin

Catherine Galvin practises corporate tax and advises on inward investment, cross border tax planning and transfer pricing issues. She advises many of the leading international corporations doing business in and from Ireland. Catherine is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. She is the Irish panel member for BNAI's Transfer Pricing Forum. Catherine is the co-author of the Irish chapter for the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation's (IBFD) publication The Tax Treatment of Transfer Pricing. She has also written on transfer pricing issues for Transfer Pricing Review and for IBFD's International Transfer Pricing Journal. Catherine has written on tax issues for the Irish Tax Review, the International Tax Review and other publications and has lectured on international tax issues.

Matheson LLP

Catherine Hayes

I advise and support employers on how to navigate all aspects of Irish employment law from agency workers to zero hours contracts and everything in between. Having worked in Lewis Silkin's London office for 5 years, I have good experience working across jurisdictions, although I now focus exclusively on Irish employment law from our Dublin office. I have over 10 years' experience in employment law and focus on clients' strategic objectives to achieve commercial and pragmatic solutions. I advise multinational and Irish employers across a broad range of sectors, but with a particular focus on technology, life sciences and retail.

Lewis Silkin Ireland LLP

Catherine O’Flynn

Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Catherine O’Meara

Catherine is a partner in the tax department at Matheson. Catherine has significant experience advising multinational corporations doing business in Ireland on Irish corporate tax. Catherine primarily advises multinationals on the Irish tax aspects of their operations including tax effective structuring of global reorganisations, IP ownership, inward investment projects and cash repatriation strategies. Catherine has a particular interest in advising on domestic and cross border tax disputes on transfer pricing matters, including Irish audits, mutual agreement procedure requests, correlative relief claims, advance pricing agreements and advising on the application of EU State aid principles in the context of Irish taxation matters. Catherine’s clients include many of the leading multinational corporations established in Ireland, primarily in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, ICT and consumer brand sector. Catherine has published articles in leading tax journals, is co-author on the Ireland section of the Bloomberg BNA TP Forum and is co-author of the Ireland chapter of the International Fiscal Association Cahiers on Cross Border Business Restructuring. Catherine is a Chartered Tax Advisor and a member of the Law Society of Ireland. Catherine is currently Chairperson of the International Fiscal Association – Irish branch.

Matheson LLP