Aaron Boyle
Aaron’s practice is focused on the areas of infrastructure, procurement, PPP and project finance. Aaron heads the Public Law, Procurement, Transport and PPP and PFI Groups in Arthur Cox.
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Aiden Small
Aiden is a partner in the Finance Group and leads the Debt Capital Markets team. He specialises in structured finance, securitisation, credit structures/CLOs, and private funds transactions. Aiden’s clients include arrangers, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, and institutional investors. Prior to joining Arthur Cox, Aiden worked for a number of years in London with Allen & Overy, UBS, and Morgan Stanley.
Ailish Finnerty
Ailish specialises in corporate tax with a particular focus on tax planning for international clients doing business in and through Ireland.
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 is a partner in our Corporate and M&A Department. 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
Andrew Lenny
Andy is a consultant in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group.
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.
Christopher McLaughlin
Chris is a partner in the Corporate and M&A Group.
Cian McCourt
Cian is a partner and Head of the Corporate and M&A Group. Cian specialises in mergers and acquisitions, advising on public and private transactions as well as corporate finance and equity capital markets transactions.
Cian Beecher
Cian is a partner in our Employment Law Group. He is a former in-house counsel, with over 20 years’ experience advising on all aspects of employment and industrial relations law.
Ciara Buckley
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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
Ciarán Egan
Ciarán is an experienced Senior Associate, specialising in disputes and investigations. Ciarán is a key member of Arthur Cox’s Investigations group and corporate crime group.
Ciarán advises a wide variety of clients, including Irish and international corporations and organisations, government entities, state bodies and financial institutions. Ciarán regularly advises clients on unexpected interventions by regulators and law enforcement authorities, and specialises in internal and corporate investigations, regulatory investigations, related criminal prosecutions and disputes, enforcement measures and corporate crime.
Colin Kavanagh
Colin is a Partner in the Corporate and M&A Group. He is head of the firm’s Life Sciences Group, Media, Entertainment and Sports Group, and Communications Group.
Colin Rooney
Colin is a Partner in the 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.
Connor Manning
Connor practices in the area of corporate law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.
Conor McCarthy
Conor is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and M&A Group. Conor advises public and private industry-leading Irish and international corporates on all aspects of Irish company law and equity capital markets transactions.
Cormac Kissane
Cormac Kissane is a partner in the firm’s Finance Department and the Capital Markets Group.
Cormac Commins
Cormac is a partner in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group. He specialises in the establishment and operation of all types of regulated investment funds.
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.
Dara Harrington
Dara is a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds Group.
Darragh Geraghty
Darragh is a partner in the firm’s Finance Group and has broad experience of a diverse range of financing transactions including development, fund, real estate, warehouse, acquisition and deleveraging transactions.
David Vos
David is a partner in the Corporate and M&A Department, 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.
David Kilty
David is a partner in the Tax Group and provides advice across all tax heads on a broad range of commercial matters.
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 Barrett
Deirdre is a partner in the Real Estate Department. Deirdre specialises in investment acquisitions and disposals for international investors, along with value-add development and leasing during their hold periods
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.
Deirdre Sheehan
Deirdre joined Arthur Cox in 2006 and has experience acting for domestic and international clients on acquisitions and disposals of real estate, landlord and tenant matters, and property finance arrangements.
She also works closely with our corporate and finance teams on commercial property-related transactions.
Eve Mulconry
Eve is Head of the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group. Eve has over 24 years’ experience practising Litigation in Arthur Cox, specialising in large-scale commercial litigation across a range of areas including banking, financial services, and shareholder disputes.
Fintan Clancy
Fintan specialises in tax. He represents companies on the tax issues arising from transactions such as acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations, migrations, securitisations, IP on-shoring and financings.
Fiona Egan
Fiona is a senior associate in our Infrastructure, Construction and Utilities Group and advises clients from across the industry on the development and management of infrastructure and construction projects, including the avoidance and resolution of disputes which arise.
Fiona advises on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering law matters in both the public and private sectors, as well as on energy law and renewables projects and related disputes. Fiona has experience in various forms of dispute resolution including settlement initiatives, mediations, adjudications, arbitration and court proceedings. In non-contentious matters, Fiona advises contracting authorities, employers, contractors, sub-contractors and funders, and has experience of providing advice across a range of sectors. Fiona regularly advises on drafting and negotiating various contract documents for construction and infrastructure projects of all sizes.
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.
Geoff Moore
Geoff is our Managing Partner. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and private equity.
Gillian Beechinor
Gillian is a senior associate 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 lease and leases
Golda Hession
Golda is Of Counsel in the Corporate and M&A Department, 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 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.
Ian Dillon
Ian is a partner and head of the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group with experience in all aspects of Irish fund law and regulation.
Imelda Shiels
Imelda is a partner in the Finance Department.
Imelda advises both borrowers and financial institutions on a wide range of domestic and international financing transactions, including secured and unsecured lending, syndicate finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, development finance, working capital finance and debt restructuring.
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 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.
John Matson
John is a corporate partner and is Head of International at the firm. He specialises in corporate law and has a broad corporate and commercial practice including advising upon domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and other complex corporate transactions.
John Walsh
John has wide experience in all aspects of commercial property law including advising on the construction law aspects of commercial transactions. John’s clients include developers, tenants, and purchasers. He has wide experience in relation to property investment and financing of new developments.
John Donald
John is a partner in our Restructuring and Insolvency Group and advises clients on all aspects of Irish insolvency and restructuring law and procedures, and related special situations and transactions.
Karen Killoran
Karen is a partner in the Construction and Engineering Group.
Kate O'Donohoe
Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations
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.
Kenneth Egan
Head of the Real Estate Group, Kenneth specialises in property development and investment, and advises on title, leasing, funding and construction issues.
Kevin Langford
Kevin Langford is a partner in the Employment Law Group. He is an experienced employment lawyer who places a lot of emphasis on offering practical and pragmatic solutions to clients.
Kevin Lynch
Kevin is a partner in and Head of the firm’s Banking & Finance Group.
Kevin Murphy
Kevin is a partner in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group.
Laura Rafferty
Laura is Of Counsel in the Environment & Planning Group. Laura is a former Senior Associate and Barrister whose practice and experience covers all areas of environmental, planning, infrastructure, and health and safety law.
Laura has extensive experience across the full spectrum of Planning, Environmental and Health & Safety law and has played a key role in advising on some of the most complex and significant transactions and litigation over the last five years. She has a special focus on risk assessing major infrastructural, housing and energy projects. Laura regularly advises on contentious and non-contentious matters arising out of the pre-planning, planning, development and funding of projects with a regular focus on housing and renewables. She also has a particular specialism in the adversarial areas of planning judicial review, injunctive relief and criminal enforcement proceedings.
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.
Maeve Crockett
Maeve works in the Infrastructure, Construction and Utilities Group advising on construction and infrastructure projects across a wide range of sectors.
Maeve has experience advising clients across a wide range of sectors on both contentious and non-contentious issues, drafting contract documents including principal contracts and ancillary documentation, as well as advising clients on issues arising during delivery of projects, general contract management and financing of projects.
Maeve Moran
Maeve is partner in the Corporate and M&A Group. Maeve advises on public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments, equity capital markets and corporate reorganisations.
Maura McLaughlin
Maura has been a partner since 2007. Prior to joining Arthur Cox, she worked for Linklaters’ London office.
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 Coyle
Michael is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and M&A Group.
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 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.
Olivia Mullooly
Olivia is a Partner in the Technology and Innovation Group and head of the Intellectual Property team, advising on intellectual property, data protection and information technology matters.
Orla O'Connor
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.
Patrick Horan
Patrick is a partner in the Competition and Regulated Markets Group. His practice covers the full range of EU and Irish competition law.
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 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 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 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.
Rob Corbet
Rob Corbet is Head of our Technology & Innovation Practice, a market leading team dedicated to specialist data protection, IT and Intellectual Property law.
Robert Cain
Robert is Head of our Financial Regulation practice, specialising in Irish and European financial services regulation.
Ronan Scanlan
Ronan is Of Counsel at Arthur Cox and a member of the Competition and Regulated Markets Group. His practice covers the full range of EU and Irish competition and telecoms law.
Ronan has 15 years experience of Antitrust and Competition Law, Policy and Practice, with a focus on merger control, abuse of dominance, antitrust investigations and litigation. He has previously served at a senior level in the Competition and Markets Authority in London, during which time he led high-profile merger investigations (with a focus on the telecoms space) and dawn raids on behalf of that authority (in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors).
During his time with the CMA, he was also seconded to the Irish Competition Agency (the ‘CCPC’) and worked closely with the European Commission on both merger and antitrust investigations. His international experience of competition law, enforcement and capability building includes time in China (working with Mofcom, the Competition Regulator) and on secondment to a law firm in India. Prior to joining Arthur Cox in 2022, Ronan worked at another Irish law firm, where he brought regulatory appeals in the Irish High Court on behalf of both Three Ireland and Sky Ireland.
He holds a Masters Degree from King’s College London in EU Competition Law and, since 2020, has been named as a ‘Rising Star’ in the Legal 500.
Ruth Lillis
Ruth has extensive experience advising the firm’s clients on all aspects of domestic and international finance across a variety of sectors with a particular focus on aviation, transportation and asset finance.
Ruth regularly works on complex leasing and asset financing transactions and advises clients on a broad range of transactions. Ruth has advised extensively on loan and lease restructurings during the Covid-19 pandemic and this has provided her with unique experience in the market.
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.
Séamus Given
Séamus is Head of our Employment Group. He has more than 30 years’ experience in advising on all aspects of employment law and industrial relations law and crisis management issues.
Simon Hannigan
Simon is a partner in the Real Estate Group and advises on all aspects of commercial real estate including development, construction, property finance, commercial, landlord and tenant and portfolio acquisition.
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
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 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 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 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 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.