McCann FitzGerald LLP

Employment, Disputes

Stephen is our Managing Partner.

Before commencing as Managing Partner, Stephen had many years’ experience as a strategic adviser at the highest level in client organisations, guiding them on the people aspects of their significant corporate transactions, organisational change and most critical disputes. Stephen has specialist skills in whistleblowing and investigations into protected disclosures and white-collar crime. He has significant expertise in the employment and industrial relations aspects of acquisitions, mergers, outsourcings, procurement and restructurings; including on redundancy law, union issues, consultation and TUPE.

He is one of the leading experts in the Irish market in whistleblowing investigations, with expertise in the highest level investigations across different industries, economic sectors and different legal issues. Stephen is co-author of the chapter on Ireland in the International Comparative Legal Guide to Employment & Labour Law 2018 published by the Global Legal Group and was educated in UCD and DePaul University in Chicago.

Qualified 2010

BCL (Int) UCD (2006), Adv. Dip. in Corporate, White Collar and Regulatory Crime (King's Inns, 2013), AITI Chartered Tax Adviser (2015)