McCann FitzGerald LLP — Ireland

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- Managing Partner: Stephen Holst - Number of partners (across all offices): 100 ### Firm Overview With more than 650 people, McCann FitzGerald LLP is one of Ireland’s premier law firms. We offer expert, forward-thinking legal counsel to clients in Ireland and internationally. The firm is a full-service firm, divided broadly into four main groupings of corporate, finance, disputes and real estate (including construction). We also operate industry sector and specialist practice groups which comprise professionals from different groupings. ### Main Areas of Practice ### Corporate - Partners 26, Consultants 1, other lawyers 42 The corporate group has extensive experience in advising on corporate and commercial transactions including some of the most complex and innovative M&A transactions and equity offerings, often with a cross-border element. ■ Advising long-standing client, SMBC Aviation Capital, on its agreement with Sumitomo Corporation, Apollo and Brookfield to acquire Air Lease Corporation. ■ Advised Alkermes Pharmaceuticals plc on its acquisition of Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc. ■ Advised the Equitix and Baltic Cable AB consortium on a landmark agreement to acquire the Greenlink interconnector. ■ Advised Alchelyst, a leading full-service fund administrator for alternative asset managers, in connection with its merger with Lyra Client Solutions. ■ Advised long-standing client AIB Group plc on its directed share buyback (€1.2bn), completed in May 2025, and resulting in the return of the bank to private ownership. - Contact: Brendan Murphy - Tel: +353 1 511 1522 - Email: Brendan.Murphy@mccannfitzgerald.com ### Finance - Partners 32, Consultants 1, other lawyers 52 McCann FitzGerald LLP specialises in advising on innovative financing transactions and complex regulatory issues. Our client base encompasses financial institutions, both regulated and unregulated, as well as non-financial corporate and State counterparties. We provide high quality legal advice, adopting a solution-focused approach, across the full range of financial services activities, from corporate lending and treasury, derivatives, asset management and insurance to aircraft and other big-ticket asset financing, project and infrastructure financing and capital markets transactions. ■ Advised AerCap Holdings N.V. on all of its activity in the unsecured bond market (total US$ 3.45 billion) in the last year. ■ Acted for Phoenix Aviation and AIP Capital in connection with a $592 million term loan facility ■ Assisted Ares Capital Management in connection with the $5.5 billion financing provided to Clearlake to acquire Dun & Bradstreet Holdings. ■ Acted for certain consenting secured creditors in relation to the approximately $6 billion debt and equity recapitalization of the Ardagh Glass Group. ■ Advised Barclays on a novel securitization programme for Ferovinum, a specialist provider of supply chain finance to the wines and spirits industry in Europe, the UK and US. - Contact: Georgina O’Riordan - Tel: +353 1 607 1461 - Email: Georgina.ORiordan@mccannfitzgerald.com ### Disputes Partners 25, Consultants 3, other lawyers 63 (Additional contentious expertise in the construction / procurement / infrastructure sector is captured in the Construction Group numbers below.) The group advises on many of the major complex cases before the Irish Courts in the financial, corporate and state sectors and is often the first port of call for major corporates who find themselves in a dispute or who require advice on a matter that may become contentious. ■ Advising SMBC Aviation Capital, the world’s second largest aircraft lessor, in its cUS$1.76bn claim against its insurers (16 different insurers across multiple jurisdictions) for 36 aircraft lost in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, securing a landmark settlement. ■ Representing Bristol Myers Squibb in a number of related matters concerning its patent/ Supplementary Protection Certificate protecting apixaban, the active ingredient in the anti-coagulant product Eliquis, including in the defence of a Commercial Court patent / SPC revocation action brought by Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland. ■ Advising tech unicorn Workhuman on all aspects of a complex shareholder dispute (media estimates value the claim at Stg£300m) before the Commercial Court involving FTSE-listed PE firm Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). ■ Advising Trinseo and its board of directors on all Irish aspects of its complex cross-border restructuring. - Contact: Michael Murphy - Tel: +353 1 611 9142 - Email: Michael.Murphy@mccannfitzgerald.com ### Real Estate & Construction - Partners 15, Consultant 1, other lawyers 48 Offering one of the largest real estate and construction offerings in the jurisdiction, the group is known for its integrated approach to complex transactions and projects. Covering the traditional acquisitions, disposals, lettings and finance deals, the Group also has huge experience on complex projects work, re-structuring, security and enforcement, tax-based deals and construction schemes, as well as construction disputes, for domestic and international companies. ■ Advising Merck / MSD on its acquisition of a vaccine manufacturing facility from WuXi,pharmaceutical manufacturing facility from Takeda, the acquisition lands with development potential. ■ Advising Hammerson plc (a UK-listed REIT) in relation to its joint ownership of the premium retail asset in the jurisdiction, Dundrum Town Centre, and on re- development in the Dundrum area. ■ Advising Blackstone, as a lender to Henderson Park, on the development of a number of industrial units in Dublin, with a value of c. €100 million ■ Advising Marlet on the letting of College Square (comprising c416,000 sq ft) to Workday, the largest single office letting in Europe and largest ever single office letting in the Irish market. ■ Advising the National Paediatric Hospital on the development of a new national children’s hospital at an estimated projected cost of over €2.2 billion. ■ Advising Irish Rail on DART+ (€3bn expansion of electrified rail surrounding Dublin). ■ Advising Pembroke Beach DAC (joint venture between Lioncor (backed by Oaktree and Alanis) and The Ronan Group) on the development of the 38 acre ‘Glass Bottle Site’ - a new Dublin suburb to include 3,800 homes and over 90,000 sq.m. of commercial space, with a total development value estimated in excess of €1 billion. - Contact: Stephen Proctor - Tel: +353 1 607 1778 - Email: Stephen.Proctor@mccannfitzgerald.com - International Work ■ Advised CalypsoAI, an Irish-led, US-headquartered start up specialising in AI security and systems testing, in its sale to F5, a Seattle-based tech-security firm. ■ Represented JTC, the global professional services provider, on all Irish law aspects of the successful completion of its US private placement. ■ Advised Bankinter S.A. on the establishment of a branch in Ireland and the cross-border merger of Avantcard DAC t/a Avant Money into the Irish Branch. ■ Represented a consortium of private equity investors in successfully resolving a complex cross border commercial dispute arising out of alleged breaches of the investor’s contractual rights through a conspiracy. The plaintiffs’ rights arose on foot of profit participating notes through a complex corporate structure in an underlying portfolio of premium assets in London. ■ Acting for Pure Data Centre, an established developer and operator of hyperscale-ready date centres across EMEA, on Irish aspects of a transaction supporting the development of a €1 billion 78MW hyperscale campus in Amsterdam, and the continued build-out of a 54MW multi-building hyperscale campus in Dublin. - Contact: Stephen Holst - Tel: +353 1 511 1517 - Email: Stephen.Holst@mccannfitzgerald.com ### Offices - Dublin, Ireland (Principal Office) - Brussels, Belgium - London, United Kingdom - New York, United States ### Languages - French - German - Irish - Portuguese - Spanish - Italian

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Lawyers in this office

Adam Finlay

Partner · Technology & Innovation

Adrian Farrell

Partner · Banking & Finance

Aidan Gleeson

Partner · Banking & Finance

Alan Fuller

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Alan Heuston

Partner · Tax

Amy Brick

Partner · Litigation

Anna Moran

Partner · Investment Funds

Audrey Byrne

Partner · Commercial Disputes

Barrett Chapman

Partner · Construction

Ben Gaffikin

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Brendan Murphy

Partner · Equity Capital Markets

Brendan Slattery

Partner · Environment & Planning

Brian Quigley

Partner · Litigation

Bébhinn Bollard

Partner · Litigation

Catherine Austin

Consultant · Pensions

Catherine Derrig

Partner · Litigation

Ciara O'Herlihy

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Ciara Ryan

Partner · Litigation

Clare Gillett

Partner · Insurance & Reinsurance

Colm Fanning

Partner · Project Finance

Conor Cunningham

Partner · Litigation

Darragh Murphy

Partner · Financial Services Regulation

David Hurley

Consultant · Litigation

David Lydon

Partner · Corporate / M&A

David McCauley

Partner · Employment

Deirdre Barnicle

Partner · Tax

Donal Hamilton

Partner · Employment

Donal O’Raghallaigh

Partner · Real Estate

Donncha Sexton

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Doug McMahon

Partner · Technology & Innovation

Eamon de Valera

Partner · Banking & Finance

Eamonn O'Hanrahan

Partner · Project Finance

Edel Corry

Partner · Real Estate

Eleanor Cunningham

Partner · Pensions & Employee Benefits

Eleanor MacDonagh

Co-Head of Tax · Tax

Emily Mac Nicholas

Partner · Real Estate

Fergus Gillen

Partner · Banking & Finance

Fiona O'Beirne

Partner · Intellectual Property

Garreth O'Brien

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Gary McSharry

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Georgina O'Riordan

Partner · Aviation

Gill Lohan

Partner · Equity Capital Markets

Helen Kilroy

Partner · Litigation

Hilary Marren

Partner · Aviation & Asset Financing

Holly Draper-Spillane

Senior Knowledge Lawyer · Financial Services Regulation

Hugh Beattie

Partner · Investment Funds

Iain Ferguson

Partner · Investment Funds

Ian Payne

Partner · Aviation

James Quirke

Partner · Tax

Jamie McGee

Partner · Construction

Jennifer Halpin

Partner · Real Estate

Joe Fay

Partner · Aviation

John Neeson

Partner · Mergers & Acquisitions

Josh Hogan

Partner · Financial Services Regulation

Kate Clancy

Of Counsel · Aviation

Kevin Kelly

Consultant · Alternative Dispute Resolution

Laura Deignan

Partner · Aviation

Laura Treacy

Partner · Competition

Liane Egan

Partner · Project Finance

Lisa Smyth

Partner · Restructuring & Insolvency