Lawyers in Ireland

Ciara O’Kennedy

Ciara acts in a broad range of employment, commercial, contractual and tortious disputes. She advises on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues with significant experience in contentious employment matters and in particular resolving complex and sensitive disputes involving the senior executives and employee shareholders, to include the negotiation and drafting of severance packages relating to senior management exits and advising on all aspects of corporate governance issues associated with such exits. Ciara advises on all legal issues arising out of the employment relationship including employment contracts, TUPE disciplinary issues, dismissal, together with partnering with clients to implement remote working and hybrid working policies, tailored to the specific industry needs. Ciara is the Chair of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association Employment Committee and is a regular speaker at employment events.

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Ciara Ryan

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Ciara White

Ciara is a senior associate in the Real Estate Group since March 2020, having practised in the UK for a number of years previously. Ciara has significant experience advising on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions across all real estate sectors (office, industrial, PRS/BTR, hospitality and retail) with particular focus on portfolio and single-asset acquisitions & disposals, commercial leasing, forward-fund and forward purchase development agreements, property finance, corporate mergers and acquisitions and landlord & tenant issues/asset management. Ciara has been a key deal team member on several headline property transactions, managing a large number of team members, large volumes of due diligence and contract negotiations. Ciara also regularly collaborates with colleagues across the Firm on a variety of cross-border and domestic deals, including but not limited to, corporate M & A, property finance, loan sales and renewable energy projects

Arthur Cox LLP

Ciaran Markey

Browne Jacobson Ireland LLP

Ciarán Leavy

Partner, Head of Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Lavelle Partners LLP

Ciarán Rogers

Senior Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Ciarán Ó Conluain

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Cillian Balfe

Cillian is a partner in and head of Whitney Moore's Corporate team. He advises clients on transactions in and investments through Ireland. He advises many leading Irish and international companies on mergers and acquisitions and equity investments. Cillian advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions including foreign direct investment (FDI), buying and selling businesses, M&A, restructuring businesses, asset and share sales and purchases, joint ventures, partnership agreements and structuring of professional partnerships. He advises start-up and emerging high-growth companies on investment agreements with angel investors, venture capital investors and Enterprise Ireland investment agreements, loan notes, shareholders’ agreements and commercial contracts. Cillian advises on corporate governance, including directors’ duties and corporate compliance matters, and on company and director obligations under Company Law, fiduciary duties, disputes between directors, minority oppression actions and shareholder disputes. He advises on information technology contracts and online sales, website terms and conditions of sale, software development and software licensing, franchising, agency, distribution, intellectual property, B2B (business to business) and B2C (business to consumer) contracts, non-disclosure agreements and bespoke commercial agreements. Cillian’s regulatory experience involves the provision of advices in relation to the Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP), Central Bank applications (bureau de change, moneylending, pawnbroking) and higher education – Protection of Enrolled Learners (PEL).

Whitney Moore

Cillian Bredin

Partner, Asset Management and Investment Funds

Dillon Eustace

Cillian O'Boyle

Cillian is a partner in the Commercial Real Estate Department at Matheson and is a member of the CRE Secured Lending and Insolvency Group at Matheson. He is an accomplished and commercially focused lawyer and practises in all aspects of commercial property law. Cillian advises both domestic and international lenders on all property aspects of real estate security from the taking of security through to the enforcement of same. Cillian also has considerable experience in general commercial property work including acquisitions and disposals and commercial landlord and tenant work. Cillian has particular experience in the renewables sphere having advised in relation to all property matters arising in connection with various energy projects including power stations, onshore wind farms, battery storage developments and solar energy projects.

Matheson LLP

Clair Cassidy

Clair has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of commercial property including acquisition and disposal of development land, property aspects of corporate and M&A transactions, sale and acquisition of multi-property investments and commercial landlord and tenant. Clair acts for a number of Irish and international clients, developers, real estate funds, family investment houses and oil companies.

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Claire Lord

Partner, Head of Corporate Governance

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Claire McDermott

Partner

Flynn O'Driscoll

Claire Morrissey

Claire is head of Maples and Calder's Data, Commercial & Technology team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Claire is a leading adviser on data, technology and commercial contracts. She has a particular focus on GDPR compliance and investigations, emerging technologies and complex sourcing projects. Claire also regularly advises on the technology, IP and data aspects of joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions. Claire’s recent data experience includes advising on GDPR compliance, data transfers, data protection complaints and investigations and data breach management across all sectors including, in particular, financial services and technology. She has advised on a wide range of commercial contracts including IT contracts and major outsourcings in the financial services sector, intellectual property transfers and licensing, software development, distribution and R&D agreements.

Maples Group

Claire O’Brien

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Claire Waterson

Claire Waterson is a Partner in William Fry’s Competition & Regulation Department advising on all aspects of Irish and EU competition law, including merger control, restrictive practices, State aids, public procurement and free movement. Claire specialises in sectoral regulation with a particular emphasis on telecommunications

William Fry LLP

Clare Cashin

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Clare Dowling

Clare practises in commercial litigation, specialising in corporate insolvency and restructuring and commercial disputes. Clare has acted in large scale commercial disputes across a range of areas including shareholder disputes, property disputes and contractual claims. Clare advises on all aspects of debt recovery and enforcement issues. Clare has particular expertise in advising on liquidations, examinerships and receiverships as well as formal and informal restructurings and reorganisations. Clare also has wide experience of insolvency related litigation, acting for both insolvency office-holders and secured and unsecured creditors in disputes.

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Clare Gillett

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Cliona Christle

Partner

A&L Goodbody LLP

Clodagh Ruigrok

Clodagh is a Partner in William Fry’s Asset Management & Investment Funds department and specialises in advising asset managers in relation to the establishment, regulation and ongoing management of a wide variety of investment funds. She has a particular focus in the evolving areas of artificial intelligence (AI), data protection and environmental, social governance (ESG), and their impact on asset managers. She is a member of the Irish Funds Green Team Network, the William Fry Sustainability Steering and Environmental Committees, and the Financial Services Strategy Group, working closely with the William Fry Technology Department on continuous AI regulatory developments. Her work has been shortlisted by the Financial Times in the Innovative Lawyers Awards

William Fry LLP

Clíodhna Walsh

Clíodhna is a partner in Beauchamps' litigation & dispute resolution team. Clíodhna has vast experience of recovery and enforcement proceedings and financial services litigation. She also has extensive experience in the area of residential mortgage repossession, and regularly appears in both the High Court and the Circuit Court in repossession proceedings. Clíodhna is a specialist in the area of personal insolvency and represents financial institutions in bringing objections to proposed personal insolvency arrangements. Clíodhna has acted in a number of leading cases which have defined and shaped the landscape of personal insolvency law.

Beauchamps LLP

Colette Brady

Colette is a Partner in our Litigation & Investigations Department and a member of our Life Sciences and Intellectual Property Groups specialising in intellectual property and regulatory law, dealing with both contentious and non-contentious matters.

William Fry LLP

Colette Neville

Senior Associate in the Property Department

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP