Banking and finance
Hall of Fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Rising stars
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Maples Group
Sarah is a partner of Maples and Calder's Banking team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Sarah has extensive experience advising on domestic and cross-border banking transactions. Sarah's practice focuses on advising lenders and borrowers in relation to corporate debt facilities, acquisition financing, real estate financing (investment and development), fund financing and debt restructurings.
William Fry LLP
Jason is a Partner in William Fry's Banking & Financial Services Department. He advises on all aspects of domestic and international finance transactions in the primary and secondary debt markets for a broad range of financial institutions, alternative lenders, corporates, funds and partnerships.
William Fry LLP
Padraic is a Partner in William Fry's Banking & Finance Department. Padraic has extensive experience in acting for financial institutions, alternative lenders and borrowers in relation to syndicated lending, real estate finance (development and investment), acquisition finance, project finance, invoice discounting and receivables financing, lending to fund structures and general corporate and personal lending.
Maples Group
Vanessa is of counsel of Maples and Calder's Banking and Finance team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Vanessa has extensive experience advising a broad spectrum of lenders (Irish and International financial institutions, alternative lenders) and borrowers (trading companies, SPVs, funds, partnerships) on a range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions including real estate investment and development finance, funds finance (including subscription line financing), corporate debt, leveraged and acquisition finance, refinancings and restructurings.
A&L Goodbody LLP
Niamh McMahon is a partner in A&L Goodbody's Finance department. Niamh has particular expertise in property and development finance and financings involving fund structures. Niamh also advises domestic and international credit institutions and corporate entities on a wide range of other types of finance transactions, including acquisition financing, project financing, asset financing and debt restructuring.
Maples Group
Alma is a partner of Maples and Calder's Banking team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Alma has experience in advising on a range of domestic and cross-border banking and finance transactions. Alma’s expertise includes advising banks and borrowers in connection with corporate debt facilities, acquisition financing, fund finance, real estate financing (investment and development) and restructurings. She also has particular expertise in real estate financing involving QIAIF structures and portfolio loan sales.
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Leading individuals
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Maples Group
Elizabeth is a partner of Maples and Calder's Banking and Finance team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Elizabeth specialises in banking and finance law, advising clients in structuring, negotiating, implementing and restructuring a range of financing transactions. She acts for leading domestic and global financial institutions, alternative lenders, major corporates, private equity funds and limited partnerships across a wide range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions. These include real estate financing (investment and development), acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance and fund financing, through bilateral and syndicated deals. Elizabeth also advises on loan portfolio sales, acting for purchasers, vendors and servicers.
Beauchamps LLP
Daniel is partner and head of Beauchamps' Banking & Finance team with extensive experience in all facets of corporate lending, including acquisition finance, construction finance, project finance and secured lending. Daniel works with Irish and international financial institutions and has broad expertise in lending transactions with senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt tranches; multi-jurisdictional lending transactions; intercreditor arrangements; acting for the sellers and buyers of loan portfolios; security reviews; receiverships, examinerships and structured workouts.
McCann FitzGerald LLP
Eamon specialises in the areas of acquisition finance, property and development finance and general secured and unsecured lending. He has represented banks and borrowers on a wide variety of transactions and continues to advise banks in relation to enforcement remedies. Eamon has considerable experience in reviewing and updating security documentation on behalf of financial institutions and has advised several clients on banking issues with regard to insolvency, loan and security documents.
Matheson LLP
Patrick is a partner and co-head of the Finance and Capital Markets Department. He advises on banking, structured finance, project finance and securitisation transactions and provides regulatory advice to banks and other financial services institutions. Patrick regularly contributes articles to financial services and banking journals and has spoken at a number of finance conferences. He also lectures on banking law subjects for a number of educational bodies.
McCann FitzGerald LLP
Philip is a partner in our Finance Group with particular expertise in relation to acquisition finance, property finance, construction finance and syndicated lending and regularly acts as lead counsel in numerous multi-jurisdiction transactions. He has a particular expertise in lending into QIAIF structures and also has extensive experience in relation to re-structuring, workouts and pre-enforcement strategies for lenders. Philip has acted for a number of purchasers, sellers and funders on a variety of loan portfolios sales. Philip provides general corporate banking law advice to a range of Irish and international clients on an ongoing basis.
A&L Goodbody LLP
Peter Murray is a partner in the Finance department and is Head of our General Finance practice group. He has extensive experience in general banking and structured financings. Peter brings a unique legal and commercial perspective to our Finance department having worked for many years as an investment and corporate banker with domestic and international banks.
Arthur Cox
Orla is a partner in the firm’s Finance Group and Chair of the Firm. She has worked on numerous financing and restructuring transactions both for banks and borrowers. Orla is also a member of the firm’s Financial Regulation practice and advises on bank reorganisations and on a wide range of regulatory issues relating to payments, electronic money, anti-money laundering, mortgage arrears and consumer credit. She has also advised a range of banks, private equity firms and servicers expanding and restructuring their operations on regulatory, licensing and other legal issues and on their interactions with the Central Bank. She has advised on a wide range of bank asset disposals by both Irish and international banks operating in Ireland as part of their deleveraging strategies.
