About
At EY Law Ireland, we align with the wider EY global purpose of shaping the future with confidence. We are a stand-alone law firm, regulated by the Law Society of Ireland and offer a full array of legal services. We are a member firm of a wider global network of EY law firms. Our team of Irish lawyers work with our clients locally and internationally to meet their ongoing legal and commercial objectives for their businesses. We listen to our clients and understand their needs. Our advice and strategies for clients is bespoke to our clients' needs. We work collaboratively with clients to offer client-focused efficiencies with the ability to seek all professional services from EY and EY Law Ireland. Our unique, end-to-end legal services offering helps clients navigate a rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape in Ireland, which is enhanced by direct access to 3,400+ EY Law professionals across over 90 jurisdictions. Our lawyers understand the critical interplay between law, finance and tax in today's economy. By partnering with other EY experts across the EY network, we offer a multidisciplinary, one-stop-shop, integrated approach. This help clients navigate complex commercial and legal issues quickly, efficiently and helps reduce the gap between business advisors and legal counsel to increase efficiency and speed to market. In Ireland and globally, we disrupt conventional siloed professional services and offer sophisticated clients a compelling alternative. We attract ambitious talent who partner with our growing client base to deliver long-term sustainable value. EY Law invests heavily in our people and in technology as we shape the future of the provision of professional services, and together with our clients build a better working world. As a market disruptor, we have strategically developed our key legal practice areas, leveraging the expertise of our partners at EY Ireland. This strategic alignment empowers our lawyers to deliver bespoke, market-leading legal advice that factors in the crucial interplay between law, finance, and tax in today’s dynamic economy. By seamlessly integrating with EY experts across our global network, we offer an unparalleled, multidisciplinary one-stop-shop solution. This ensures our clients can adeptly navigate complex commercial and legal landscapes with exceptional speed, efficiency, and precision. At our core, we are a disruptive full-service legal services provider supported by the scale, technology and expertise of a global Big4 firm. We are able to creatively apply our resources, methods and technologies beyond traditional law firms to more extensively and fundamentally alter the way in which legal services are delivered to our clients. As a recent entrant to the Irish market, EY Law Ireland is undergoing significant growth and expansion, driven by our commitment to delivering exceptional legal services. This growth is further bolstered by our ability to leverage the extensive expertise of the team within EY Law UK. By collaborating closely with our UK counterparts, we are able to offer a broader range of specialised legal knowledge and innovative solutions, ensuring that clients benefit from a truly integrated and comprehensive service offering. EY Law Ireland's practice areas are: - M&A and Transactions Mergers and Acquisitions – domestic and cross-border, including legal due diligence, deal negotiation and execution Guiding our clients from deal 'design' stage, through negotiation to implementation and integration - Joint ventures and shareholders Agreements - Private equity and venture capital - Analysing corporate group structures Streamlining or rationalising groups to facilitate pre-sale planning and optimise tax and other efficiencies - Providing strategic advice and corporate governance support to boards - Post-deal integration Corporate Advisory including Company Law, Commercial Law, Shareholder controversy, corporate governance, insolvency and restructuring and EU competition law and merger control - Employment Law - Advising on investigations/disciplinary processes - Discrimination/equality queries - Whistleblower investigations - Litigation arising from employment (Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court) - Employment due diligence for asset and share deals - Managing consultation requirements - Advising on industrial relations engagement issues - Post-deal workforce integration - Collective redundancies - Advising on communication strategy - Supporting with selection process, managing appeals and subsequent litigation - Post re-organisation integration and managing people issues - Technology and Commercial Law Technology - ICT contracts, software licensing and services, SaaS, software partner arrangements, reseller arrangements, managed services, licensing - Outsourcing arrangements - Commercial joint ventures - Cyber security and operational resilience - Data Protection and Privacy - Artificial intelligence - Intellectual Property and Digital Assets - Contracts and Supply Chain - Platform and Content Regulation - Consumer Regulation - Corporate Governance and Compliance Incorporations and dissolutions of corporate entities and registrations and de-registrations of branches - Annual compliance support - Board and Officer changes - Company name or registered office changes - Arranging approval of powers of attorney or other delegated authorities - Updating company constitutions - Assisting with changes to share capital - Internal capital contributions/share issuances/declaring dividends - Providing director duty training to boards of Irish companies - Provide Board and Committees support in relation to their meetings - Real Estate and Development Law Acquisitions and Disposals - acting for purchaser and vendor in respect of properties such as office blocks, wind farms, renewal projects, shopping centres, development sites, social housing, private residential schemes, nursing homes, hospitals, multi-use developments, standalone retail units, hotels and leisure facilities and private residential schemes Commercial Leasing - Our advice extends to advising on agreements for lease, occupational leases, side letters, deeds of variation, assignments, underleases, surrenders and/or supplemental leases. Development of commercial and/or residential schemes - Acting for developers and property owners in setting up and implementing commercial developments and schemes, residential, mixed-use, retail, office, industrial, logistics and hospitality Advisory -All real estate aspects of large-scale infrastructure and other capital investment projects - Private Client Law - Wills - Estate and succession planning - Establishment and administration of trusts - Probate and administration of estates - Capacity issues – including advising on Enduring Powers of Attorney - Contentious trust and estate matters - Charity law, the establishment & administration of charities - Tax Strategy and Disputes - Providing objective insights into the full range of tax issues - Advising on all categories of disputes with the Revenue Commissioners - Preparation of submissions and representation at the Tax Appeals Commission and the Courts - Providing tax and legal opinion - Banking and Finance - Real Estate, development and investment finance - Corporate and commercial lending, including bilateral and syndicated facilities - Acquisitions, leveraged and sponsor led finance - Refinancing, restructurings and amendments to existing facilities - security structuring and due diligence
Office locations
Dublin
Dublin
EY Law Ireland Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street Dublin 2 Dublin Ireland
Cork
Cork
EY Law Ireland City Quarter Lapps Quay Cork Ireland
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Adam Synnott
Adam is a corporate transactional lawyer with over 20 years of experience working in leading firms in Dublin and London. He has advised many high-profile international clients, both listed and unlisted, on a broad range of transactions and corporate advisory matters. Adam is highly experienced with exposure to many diverse fields of corporate law, including M&A, private equity, joint ventures, capital markets, banking and security, commercial litigation, aviation, cleantech, securities law, and real estate. Before joining EY, Adam was a partner at one of Ireland’s leading corporate law firms. He has also worked at one of London’s Magic Circle law firms. · Corporate / M&A
Aidan Lawlor
Aidan is a corporate transactional lawyer with over 20 years of experience advising leading Irish and international public, private and semi-state companies, private equity sponsors and other stakeholders across a range of sectors. Aidan specialises in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance/equity capital markets, joint ventures, restructurings and corporate governance legal advice and has acted as lead adviser on some of the largest and most high-profile corporate transactions in the Irish market. Before joining EY Law Ireland, Aidan was a corporate lawyer at one of Ireland’s leading tier 1 corporate law firms in Dublin where he was a senior corporate equity partner for 14 years. Aidan has been a recommended lawyer in leading ranking guides Chambers & Partners Global, Chambers & Partners Europe, IFLR1000 and Legal500. “As part of the talented team at EY Law Ireland, I take pride in attracting top-tier professionals to our team. Our mission? To deliver unrivalled, first-class, dynamic, and integrated finance, tax, and legal solutions to sophisticated clients. At EY Law Ireland, we are committed to diversity and to fostering innovation through technology and by leveraging the collective expertise of the EY global network. By partnering with market-leading advisers across that network, we provide a differentiated offering to clients to help them solve some of their most complex and strategic issues. My focus extends beyond work—empowering our people, enhancing their skills, and contributing to a thriving and progressive business environment. Together, we shape a brighter legal landscape.” · Corporate / M&A
Alan Murphy
Alan joined EY Law Ireland to build a world class law firm that is integrated locally and connected globally. EY Law Ireland provides a seamless service to clients across multiple jurisdictions. The firm harnesses the strength and depth of other disciplines to provide, when required, an end-to-end service to our clients. A service that provides excellence of advice and excellence of delivery.
Andrea McNamara
Andrea advises Irish and international individuals, families and family businesses in relation to all aspects of wealth planning, Wills, trusts and succession planning. She has extensive experience advising in relation to contentious trust and estate matters and on all aspects of charity law, from advising charitable bodies to advising individuals and corporates in relation to charitable giving. Andrea is a solicitor and former barrister, a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and a member of the committee of the Irish branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). Andrea is a regular speaker and contributor to publications in her area of expertise. · Private Client
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. · Employment Law
Conor Kennedy
Prior to joining EY Law, Conor was a Tax Appeals Commissioner having resolved €2.6 billion in tax disputes. He is a barrister with many years of experience representing clients in tribunals and the courts and is one of the leading experts in tax litigation. · Tax
Conor O'Dwyer
Conor is a corporate transactional lawyer for over 20 years and has been fortunate to have advised major Irish and international companies, private equity firms and other stakeholders on many novel, complex and transformative transactions. He specialises in advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures. financings, restructurings, equity capital markets, corporate governance and shareholder arrangements. Conor has acted for clients across a range of sectors including financial services, real estate, food & beverage, technology/fintech and pharma/life sciences. Prior to joining EY Law Ireland, Conor was a senior corporate partner in one of Ireland’s largest law firms and served on its management committee for several years. He has been a recommended Corporate/M&A lawyer in leading ranking guides Chambers & Partners Global, Chambers & Partners Europe, IFLR1000 and Legal500. “By having a deep understanding of our clients’ goals and business needs, we are trusted by those clients to advise on complex and transformative transactions, enabling them to manage risk and prosper.” · Corporate / M&A
Cormac Gilroy
Cormac is a banking and finance Director with over 10 years of experience in the industry. He has represented a large number of leading borrowers, domestic banks, international banks and non-bank lenders in relation to bilateral and syndicated facilities. Cormac is a collaborative team player and leader with a focus on delivering for clients. · Banking & Finance
Deirdre Malone
Deirdre leads EY Law Ireland’s employment law team, bringing a wealth of experience from over 20 years advising clients. She advises global multinationals and SMEs on day-to-day people issues, workforce planning, restructuring and transactions. Deirdre often collaborates with EY’s People Advisory Service in Ireland, but also connects with the EY Global Law firm network to advise on a broad spectrum of employment law issues in the workplace, from day to day HR advisory support, risk management, transactions and workplace restructuring. Combining employment law expertise with a commercial and solution-driven focus, Deirdre is highly regarded by clients. She is a member of the Employment Law Review Group, a statutory advisory expert body charged with advising the Minster for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the review and development of employment law in Ireland. She is also a member of the Law Society of Ireland’s Employment and Equality Committee. · Employment
Gina Aherne
Director · Corporate / M&A
Louisa Burke
Director · Real Estate
Maeve Murphy
Maeve is a Director within our Corporate, M&A and Structuring team, with over 12 years post-qualification advising Irish and international public and private entities. Her expertise encompasses a broad spectrum of corporate law disciplines, with a particular focus on acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements and corporate governance. Maeve's dynamic and pragmatic approach to client solutions, combined with significant international experience has made her a trusted advisor in the corporate law landscape. “My commitment to client delivery is enriched by a global perspective, personable interactions built on trust, and multidisciplinary collaboration, all converging to produce pragmatic legal solutions for EY Law’s clients' diverse needs.” · Corporate / M&A
Robert Haniver
Rob is a Partner in EY Law Ireland’s Technology and Commercial team. He leads EY Law Ireland’s data protection and cybersecurity legal practice. Rob specialises in technology, data laws (including data protection and privacy), cybersecurity and commercial law. As part of his practice, Rob advises on cross-border compliance projects, the development and rollout of technologies, IT and network transformation, outsourcing, cloud computing and e-commerce. · Technology
Susan Walsh
Director · Technology & Outsourcing