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Aaron Boyle
Aaron Boyle
Aaron’s practice is focused on the areas of infrastructure, procurement, PPP and project finance. Aaron heads the Infrastructure, Construction & Utilities Group in Arthur Cox. He has been centrally involved in key infrastructure projects in Ireland for a number of years particularly in the areas of telecoms, health, education, transport and energy. Aaron has extensive commercial experience advising on a range of contracts and sectors including PPP, concessions, managed service, framework, logistics and ICT.
Aisling Kelly
Aisling Kelly
Aisling is a partner in the Finance Group at Arthur Cox, specialising in debt capital markets, securitisation and structured finance transactions. Aisling advises on bond issues, RMBS, CMBS, CLO and other securitisation structures, private funds and other structured finance transactions. Aisling regularly acts for clients on the acquisition and financing of Irish loan portfolios and on bridge and warehouse financing arrangements and securitisation take-outs. Aisling also advises on regulatory issues impacting structured finance vehicles, including the Securitisation Regulation, as well as issues relevant to listing (including the Market Abuse Regulation, Transparency Directive, Prospectus Regulation and other securities law obligations).
Aisling Kelly
Aisling Kelly
Aisling is a partner in the Finance Group at Arthur Cox, specialising in debt capital markets, securitisation and structured finance transactions. Aisling advises on bond issues, RMBS, CMBS, CLO and other securitisation structures, private funds and other structured finance transactions. Aisling regularly acts for clients on the acquisition and financing of Irish loan portfolios and on bridge and warehouse financing arrangements and securitisation take-outs. Aisling also advises on regulatory issues impacting structured finance vehicles, including the Securitisation Regulation, as well as issues relevant to listing (including the Market Abuse Regulation, Transparency Directive, Prospectus Regulation and other securities law obligations). In The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa 2024, Aisling was ranked: Recommended: Capital Markets (Tier 1).
Amelia Walsh
Amelia Walsh
Amelia is Of Counsel in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution, and Investigations team, specialising in financial services litigation and regulatory intervention and investigations, as well as statutory appeals and judicial review. Amelia has particular expertise in advising financial institutions, pensions, and professional service providers in relation to high-profile regulatory investigations, crisis-management, and information governance processes, and related forensic data reviews. She also has extensive experience in advising, and acting for, regulated firms, statutory and government entities, private and public companies in the financial services, energy and retail sectors in respect of all aspects of the litigation process, as well as dispute prevention and alternative dispute resolution processes. Amelia regularly deals with multi-party and multi-jurisdictional disputes before the Commercial List of the High Court and leads large-scale and complex discovery and data review processes. Amelia is a trusted adviser to many of the firm’s key clients including Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank Ireland DAC, RBS, Veridian/Energia Group, Britvic Ireland Limited, Eirgrid, Gas Networks Ireland, Flutter Entertainment plc, and Further Capital Global Management.
Amy McDermott
Amy McDermott
Amy is a partner in our Corporate and M&A Group. Amy advises Irish and multinational public and private companies on all aspects of corporate and commercial law across a range of industries and sectors. Amy’s key areas of expertise are domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, loan portfolio sales, joint ventures, venture capital and private equity transactions. Amy is adept at handling cross-jurisdictional matters and has particular experience in transactions and advisory work in the renewable energy, infrastructure and financial services sectors
Brian O'Rourke
Brian O'Rourke
Brian is a partner in the Real Estate Department and has advised both domestic and international clients on some of the largest real estate transactions in Ireland in recent years. Brian has broad experience across all real estate sectors (office, industrial, PRS/BTR, hospitality and retail) and a wide range of transactions, including: portfolio and single-asset acquisitions & disposals, sale and leasebacks, commercial leasing, forward-fund and forward-purchase development agreements and landlord & tenant issues / asset management. Brian maintains a diverse practice and also regularly collaborates with colleagues across the Firm on a variety of cross-border and domestic deals, including: renewable energy projects, loan sales, restructuring & insolvency arrangements and corporate M&A.
Ciara Buckley
Ciara Buckley
Ciara is a partner in our Debt Finance Group. She trained and qualified as a solicitor with Allen & Overy in London, spending over four years in their Real Estate and Corporate Finance Group. Ciara has extensive experience advising clients across a broad range of domestic and international financings including real estate financing, acquisition financing, fund financing, corporate restructurings, syndicated lending, margin loans and ESG financing. Her particular focus is real estate and development finance, advising lenders (traditional and alternative), private equity funds and other investors in respect of both senior and mezzanine positions for investment, development, commercial, residential, hotel, student housing and forward fund financings.
Ciara White
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
Colin Rooney
Colin Rooney
Colin is Head of our Technology and Innovation Group. He advises on data protection and privacy, information technology, outsourcing, cloud computing, and e-business matters. Colin has extensive experience advising domestic and international clients on information management issues, with his data protection and information technology practice covering all aspects of data processing across all industry sectors. His practice also has a strong emphasis on commercial IT agreements. Colin is a frequent speaker on data protection and freedom of information topics, including at the Data Protection Leadership Forum, which the Group launched in 2019. He is also a frequent contributor to various legal journals on the above-mentioned topics.
Danielle Conaghan
Danielle Conaghan
Danielle is a partner in the Environment and Planning Group and is a founder member of the firm’s Food and Agribusiness Group. Danielle has specialist expertise and uses her project management skills in advising on matters including the decision-making processes from pre-consultation and application stages through to oral hearing, construction, and operational stages, and securing and assessing the risk of providing project financing. Danielle regularly presents at national Environmental, Planning and Energy conferences; lectures on the Law Society of Ireland Environmental Diploma Course and is co-author, with Dr. Yvonne Scannell, of the annual environmental chapter of ‘Construction Projects: Law and Practice’, published by Thomson Reuters.
David Vos
David Vos
David is a partner in the Corporate and M&A Group, specialising in public and private M&A, equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance and securities law. David advises international and domestic companies as well as state and semi-state bodies on all aspects of corporate law and governance. He has advised on some of the most high-profile corporate transactions in recent years, including public takeovers, private M&A, rights issues, placings and other public offerings, holding company structures, schemes of arrangement and joint ventures. David also advises on corporate governance and securities law issues for listed companies. David has particular experience in public takeovers, having advised on a number of high-profile recommended and contested/hostile takeovers in recent years, and equity capital markets, where he advises both issuers and banks.  
Deirdre Cummins
Deirdre Cummins
Deirdre Cummins is Of Counsel at Arthur Cox and a member of the firm’s Pensions and Employee Benefits team, advising on all aspects of pensions law in Ireland. Deirdre is a former chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers in Ireland and a member of the Pensions Council. Deirdre specialises in pensions law and advises employers and trustees on all aspects of Irish pension arrangements both in the private and public sectors. In particular, Deirdre advises on issues arising from the ongoing management and administration of occupational pension arrangements from establishment to winding up, including regulatory compliance, trusteeship issues, drafting and scheme amendments, GDPR considerations, member communications and restructuring and liability management exercises. Deirdre also advises on all pensions aspects of corporate transactions, including share sales and asset and business transfers. Deirdre has broad experience in pensions litigation and has advised extensively on contentious matters between employers and trustees in the context of restructuring and winding-up pension schemes.  Deirdre also has broad experience of advising on cross-border pension transfers and on the regulatory and compliance considerations involved in establishing an IORP in another Member State.
Deirdre O'Mahony
Deirdre O'Mahony
Deirdre is a partner in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution, and Investigations Group. She specialises in investigations, commercial and regulatory disputes, and corporate / white-collar crime. Deirdre advises a range of domestic and international clients on significant commercial and regulatory disputes, investigations (internal, regulatory, cross-border, and criminal), and criminal prosecutions. Deirdre is a founding member of the Ireland Chapter of the Women’s White Collar Defence Association (WWCDA), the Irish representative member of the European Criminal Bar Association Anti-Corruption Europe (ACE) Working Group and Committee member of the Health and Safety Lawyers’ Association of Ireland. Deirdre co-authored the Ireland chapter of the White-Collar Crime Guide 2019 for Chambers and Partners and the ACE Country Report for Ireland on anti-bribery / corruption. Deirdre is also an accredited CEDR mediator. Deirdre is named as an expert in the Euromoney Expert Guide (White Collar Crime) for 2020 and was awarded “Rising Star in Litigation” at the Women in Business Law Awards Europe 2020 which celebrate women lawyers across Europe who are leaders in their field.
Frances Flynn
Frances Flynn
Frances is an Of Counsel in our Restructuring and Insolvency Group and advises clients on all aspects of Irish insolvency and restructuring law and procedures and related transactions.  Frances specialises in restructuring and insolvency law, through both formal and informal procedures.  She has extensive experience in both domestic and cross-border restructurings and insolvencies, and she has acted in a number of high profile examinerships, schemes of arrangement, liquidations, receiverships and debt workouts.  Frances advises all stakeholders, including companies, directors, financial institutions, creditors, debtors, investors, insolvency practitioners and regulators, in relation to their rights, obligations and options arising in the context of all forms of insolvency and restructuring proceedings, debt enforcement and related litigation.  She also advises on all aspects of personal insolvency and bankruptcy. Frances is a founding member and co-chair of the Irish International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) in Ireland. 
Gillian Beechinor
Gillian Beechinor
Gillian is a partner in our Real Estate Group and advises clients on all areas of commercial real estate. Gillian advises on commercial real estate transactions across all asset classes (including office, retail, healthcare, logistics and PRS/BTR schemes) and is experienced in portfolio and single-asset acquisitions and disposals, forward fund and forward purchase structures and advising on the real estate aspects of property finance and corporate M&A transactions. Gillian regularly acts for commercial landlords and tenants on large scale agreements for leases.
Golda Hession
Golda Hession
Golda is Of Counsel in the Corporate and M&A Group, and advises clients on all areas of corporate law, in particular on securities law, corporate governance, and ESG. Golda advises international and domestic companies, as well as State and semi-State bodies, on all aspects of corporate law and governance, and a wide range of commercial and regulatory matters. Golda has extensive experience advising on public and private M&A, equity capital markets transactions and in particular, on corporate governance, ESG and executive remuneration matters for many of Ireland’s largest listed issuers.   
Ian Duffy
Ian Duffy
Ian is a partner in the Technology & Innovation Group. Ian specialises in advising a wide range of domestic and international clients on outsourcing, digital transformation, cloud-related projects, commercial contracts, data protection, cyber security and information technology. Ian has significant experience in advising clients on complex and high value outsourcing and digital transformation projects. He is also particularly adept at advising financial institutions and other regulated firms on the convergence between technology, outsourcing and financial regulation. Ian also has extensive data protection experience and worked on some of the largest GDPR implementation projects in Europe. Ian regularly presents and publishes on outsourcing, digital transformation and data protection. Ian previously worked in the TMT Group of Linklaters LLP in London for several years.
Jacinta Conway
Jacinta Conway
Jacinta has practised exclusively in the area of Environment and Planning for many years. She has played a key role in advising on some of the most complex and significant transactions and litigation in the country. She has a special focus on the renewable energy, waste and natural resources sectors, and specialises in de-risking projects at the outset of their life cycle. Jacinta has also extensive litigation experience in relation to planning and environmental judicial review challenges, planning injunction proceedings and criminal enforcement prosecutions.
Joanelle O'Cleirigh
Joanelle O'Cleirigh
Joanelle works for a broad range of clients, particularly those in the healthcare, life sciences, and regulated sectors. Joanelle also advises clients in relation to inquiries and investigations. Joanelle’s Corporate Crime experience includes advising in relation to the conduct of investigations and inquiries; some of Ireland’s most significant Tribunals of Inquiry, Commissions of Investigation; and on some of the most complex and sensitive statutory and corporate investigations. Her healthcare/life sciences expertise includes advising on: contractual issues; disputes/closure of services; HIQA regulations; HPRA and Compliance; investigations/reviews/look-backs and product recalls; medical negligence cross border healthcare; constitutional law; privacy and data issues; capacity and consent; wardship; maternity services child protection.
Kate O'Donohoe
Kate O'Donohoe
Kate is Of Counsel in our Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Department Group and specialises in the area of Healthcare law, professional regulation and Litigation.   Kate advises on all aspects of healthcare service provision and regulation, including mental health, vulnerable adults and investigations.   Kate has significant experience advising in the healthcare sector and has advised in relation to a wide variety of disputes and regulatory issues encountered by clients.  
Keith Smith
Keith Smith
Keith has considerable experience in dealing with complex commercial litigation, dispute resolution, and investigations. He also has particular expertise in managing large-scale discovery and data management exercises. Keith has acted in complex disputes across a range of areas including corporate disputes, financial services litigation, aviation disputes, real estate, energy, and technology disputes. Keith also advises clients in non-contentious situations including on risk and due diligence issues in corporate transactions and in court applications required for various forms of corporate restructuring. Keith lectures on and is the external examiner for, the Law Society of Ireland’s Diploma in Commercial Litigation course.
Louise O'Byrne
Louise O'Byrne
Louise has a broad advisory, litigation and transactional practice covering all aspects of employment law both contentious and non-contentious. Louise provides commercial and solutions focussed advice to a wide range of clients to include clients in the financial services, manufacturing, retail, technology, energy, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. Louise advises and represents employers in all types of employment disputes, including unfair dismissal, employment injunctions, occupational stress and bullying claims, transfer of undertakings, fixed-term and part-time work and discrimination claims. She regularly appears for clients in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Circuit Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Louise has particular expertise in advising on the employment aspects of corporate transactions and outsourcings.
Michael Shovlin
Michael Shovlin
Michael Shovlin is Of Counsel at Arthur Cox and a member of the firm’s Pensions and Employee Benefits team, advising on all aspects of pension schemes and equity incentive arrangements. Michael trained at Arthur Cox and acquired a wide range of experience as a corporate lawyer with the firm prior to specialising in pensions and equity incentive work.  His work today sees him advise employers and scheme trustees on the establishment, restructuring, and day-to-day operation of pension and equity incentive schemes, including drafting and amending scheme documentation, advising on liability management exercises, advising on IORP II compliance, reviewing and negotiating items such as investment management agreements and other agreements with service providers.  He also advises on pension scheme reorganisations and on the pensions and equity incentive elements of corporate transactions.
Michael Twomey
Michael Twomey
Michael specialises in commercial and corporate disputes, including financial services litigation, shareholder and contractual disputes, property disputes, landlord and tenant issues, and tax disputes. Michael advises on high-value and complex disputes across all industry sectors. He is highly experienced in relation to risk management, formal litigation (including in the Irish Commercial Court), regulatory investigations, and alternative dispute resolution procedures such as arbitration and mediation. Michael advises Irish and international companies, professional services firms, financial institutions, statutory/government bodies, private equity funds, pension and investment funds. Michael speaks regularly at industry events on all aspects of litigation prevention and resolution and tutors at the Law Society of Ireland’s Diploma in Commercial Litigation course.
Niamh McGovern
Niamh McGovern
Niamh advises a broad range of clients across the construction, energy, infrastructure, and PPP sectors. Niamh advises clients on a wide range of matters and focuses principally on construction law, projects and infrastructure (including public-private partnerships), and energy. She has acted for developers, contractors, and lenders on a wide range of construction projects, PPPs, development finance transactions (including the residential, leisure, and office accommodation sectors), and on the construction aspects of many project finance transactions (principally in the energy, transport and social infrastructure sectors). In addition, Niamh has recently advised on a number of large transactions in the pharmaceutical and telecoms sectors.
Orla O'Connor
Orla O'Connor
Orla is a partner in the firm’s Finance Group. 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.
Phil Cody
Phil Cody
Phil Cody is a partner in the firm’s Finance Group.  Phil advises on a broad range of finance and financial services matters. His practice encompasses structured finance, derivatives, debt capital markets, lending transactions (domestic and cross-border, both lender and borrower), financial regulation, and transactions involving investment funds (including fund finance).  Phil is a trusted adviser to many of the leading Irish and international financial institutions on Irish law matters and is a go-to Irish counsel for foreign market participants and law firms.  Phil leads the firm’s derivatives and trading practice and regularly advices on derivatives, repos and securities lending matters and related netting, collateral and regulatory issues.
Philip Smith
Philip Smith
Philip Smith is a partner and specialises in Pensions Law and Charity Law. Philip holds practising certificates in both Ireland and Northern Ireland. Philip advises on all aspects of pension schemes both in advising trustees and employers on day to day administration, restructuring, funding, investment, governance, regulatory compliance, disputes, merger, amendment and in relation to corporate transactions. He is a former Chair of the Association of Pension Layers in Ireland and a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Pensions Management. As coordinating partner of Arthur Cox’s Charity Law Group, he advises on the issues affecting charitable and not-for-profit organisations and their Directors/Trustees including advice on governance, regulatory compliance investigations, Revenue aspects mergers, restructurings, cy-pres, wind-up, trust law and fundraising. He is co-author, with Professor Oonagh Breen of UCD, of the Law of Charities in Ireland.
Richard Ryan
Richard Ryan
Richard is Head of the Competition and Regulated Markets Group. He is admitted to practice in Ireland and New York. He advises on all aspects of EU and Irish competition / antitrust law including investigations and dawn raids by the European Commission and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission of Ireland (CCPC), competition litigation, merger control, competition aspects of commercial agreements and behaviour, EU State aid law, competition compliance programmes, leniency applications, complaints and sectoral studies by regulators. He has been involved in a large proportion of the leading antitrust, merger control, and State aid cases in Ireland over many years.
Richard Willis
Richard Willis
Richard is a partner in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group.  He advises clients on investigations and commercial disputes focusing on the financial, technology, entertainment, and sports sectors. He has extensive experience in complex disputes, internal and regulatory investigations which often involve injunctive relief, crisis management, cross-border data, and information governance processes, and related forensic data reviews. Richard co-authored the Ireland chapter of the E-Discovery & Disclosure Guide 2019 for Chambers and Partners and is a member of the sub-committee of the Commercial Litigation Association of Ireland that drafted the Best Practice Discovery Guide and the recommendations in respect of the proposed amendments to the Irish Superior Court Rules for the purposes of reducing costs in discovery.
Ruth Lillis
Ruth Lillis
Ruth is a partner in our Debt Finance Group and advises clients on all areas of finance law. Ruth has a broad practice with an emphasis on domestic and cross border finance transactions. She acts for a wide variety of financial institutions, private equity, funds and corporates on finance matters across a wide variety of sectors including real estate, corporate, fund finance and asset finance. Ruth also has a particular focus on aviation finance and clients include credit institutions, private equity investors, aircraft lessors and airlines.
Sarah Thompson
Sarah Thompson
Sarah Thompson is Head of our Financial Regulation Group, and is also Head of our cross-disciplinary ESG Group. Sarah has experience in advising a broad range of clients on financial regulation matters and is admitted to practice in Northern Ireland, Ireland and England & Wales. Sarah advises on Central Bank of Ireland authorisation processes, perimeter issues, ongoing compliance with conduct of business and other requirements (with a special focus on ESG matters and on the Individual Accountability Framework and the Senior Executive Accountability Regime, IAF/SEAR), and financial services M&A. Prior to joining Arthur Cox, Sarah worked in London as a member of the Financial Regulation Group of Linklaters LLP and a partner in the Financial Services Regulatory team of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.
Sarah McCague
Sarah McCague
Sarah advises on all aspects of pensions law and charity law. She advises trustees and employers on the establishment and day-to-day operation of occupational pension schemes including scheme restructuring; liability management exercises; benefit design; benefit reductions; scheme amendments; administration queries for example those in relation to pension adjustment orders; the winding up of pension schemes; and the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) to pension schemes. She also advises in relation to the application of the Charities Act, 2009 and in particular in relation to applications to the Charities Regulatory Authority; obtaining tax-exempt status from the Revenue Commissioners; the mergers of charities; fundraising queries, and governance matters.
Sinead Crowley
Sinead Crowley
Sinead is a senior associate in our Corporate and M&A Group and advises clients on all area of corporate law, in particular on M&A and corporate finance. Sinead advises international and domestic companies, as well as public sector bodies, on all aspects of corporate law and governance, as well as a wide range of commercial matters. Sinead has considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions (domestic and cross-border), advising on public and private transactions as well as corporate finance and equity capital market transactions. Sinead has advised on corporate transactions in the pharmaceutical, food, energy and building sectors and has particular experience in the due diligence and corporate documents associated with the acquisition of private limited companies.
Siobhan McBean
Siobhan McBean
Siobhán is a Partner in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group. Siobhán advises on all legal and regulatory issues relating to the establishment, structuring and ongoing regulation of investment funds and fund managers in Ireland. Siobhán has extensive experience advising a variety of fund structures and asset classes, including UCITS, QIAIFs, ICAVs, hedge funds, property and real estate funds, loan origination funds, money market funds, fund of funds and private equity funds, as well as advising on a number of cross-border and domestic fund merger transactions. Siobhán also advises investment managers, management companies, AIFMs and other fund service providers in relation to the establishment, authorisation and regulation of operations in Ireland.
Sophie Frederix
Sophie Frederix
Sophie is a partner in our Corporate and M&A Department and leads our Venture Capital and Growth Equity practice. Sophie has substantial experience advising on a range of venture capital and venture debt transactions, equity investments, shareholders agreements, private equity, limited partnership structures and mergers and acquisitions. Sophie’s M&A experience includes private transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and reorganisations, both domestic and cross border and in various industries.
Stephen Ranalow
Stephen Ranalow
Stephen specialises in corporate and securities law for both listed and private companies, including M&A and ECM transactions. Stephen has advised on some of the largest corporate transactions in recent years, including takeovers, mergers, acquisitions, cross-border transactions, corporate migrations and inversions, IPOs, rights issues, public offerings, reorganisations, and joint ventures and acts as relationship partner to some of Ireland’s leading companies.  He has particular expertise in corporate transactions in the industrial, financial, FinTech, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals sectors, as well as corporate inversions, redomiciliations, and migrations into Ireland. He has also had a key role in leading some of the highest-profile contested and hostile takeover transactions in recent years, with mandates spanning both the defensive and bidder sides.
Tara O'Reilly
Tara O'Reilly
Tara is a partner in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group. Tara has extensive experience in advising leading asset managers and fund promoters. Tara has extensive experience advising clients both globally and domestically in the structuring, establishment,  management and sale of a wide variety of investment funds in the UCITS and alternative space.  Tara advises those funds,  their management companies, servicing operations and directors of their regulation, compliance and corporate governance requirements.  Tara has also advised on a number of large asset management group and platform amalgamations.  Tara has a particular expertise in ETFs and is a leadership member of the Irish chapter of Women in ETFs. Tara is a regular contributor to international journals and publications.
Yvonne Scannell
Yvonne Scannell
Yvonne has been consistently rated as one of the top environmental lawyers in Ireland and has been internationally recognised as an environmental and planning expert. Yvonne has extensive practical experience in natural resources, planning and environmental matters. Until recently, Yvonne Scannell was a Professor in the Law School, Trinity College Dublin where she specialised in Irish and European Environmental Law and Policy. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency. She was a founder member and first chairperson of the Irish Association of Environmental Law. She is Vice-President of the European Nuclear Energy Authority and a former member of the European Council for Environmental Law. Professor Scannell is on the visiting faculties of Bocconi and Bayreuth Universities.