Louise O'Byrne

Employment / Health and Safety

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.

BCL, UCC 2002 – 2005Diploma in Commercial Litigation, Law Society of Ireland 2007 – 2008Diploma in Corporate Law and Governance, Law Society of Ireland, 2008 – 2009Diploma in Employment Law, UCD, 2010 – 2011CEDR, Accredited Mediator, 2016