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Anthony O'Hanlon
Anthony O'Hanlon
Anthony is a Financial Services partner in the Investment Funds team at Mason Hayes & Curran. He provides advice on a wide of range of UCITS and AIF structures which employ a broad range of investment strategies including passive, smart beta, active, fund of funds, hedge funds, private equity and private credit. In addition to advising on collective investment schemes, Anthony regularly engages with the owners of fund service providers on the acquisition and disposal of Irish operations or Irish branches of entities domiciled in other jurisdictions. Anthony also regularly provides guidance on the addition of financing into Irish fund structures. Anthony is an active member of Irish Funds, the industry association with responsibility for promoting funds based in Ireland. Anthony was previously based in London and New York and regularly travels between and works with clients in those locations. Anthony has completed secondments in the product teams of two of the World’s largest asset managers and a well-known white label third party management company based in Dublin. Prior to joining the Firm, Anthony worked in the asset management departments of two leading Irish firms in Dublin.
Catherine O'Flynn
Catherine is a Partner in the Employment Law & Benefits team. Catherine has over 20 years’ experience practising exclusively in the area of employment law and has been involved in many leading employment cases. She is the former Chair of the Law Society of Ireland Employment and Equality Law Committee and in that role made various submissions to the Irish Government on matters of Irish employment law. Catherine advises on all contentious and non-contentious employment law matters with a particular expertise in equality issues and age-related matters. She advises clients in all sectors to include the regulated financial services sector and sports sector. Catherine regularly appears on national radio and in the national media/press as an employment law thought-leader.
David Gunn
David Gunn
David is a Partner in the Infrastructure, Energy and Construction teams at Mason Hayes & Curran. He specialises in project development and finance advising a wide range of clients. David has significant experience on the construction aspects of large scale infrastructure and energy projects and PPPs. The combination of his construction and finance experience makes him a trusted lead adviser on project finance matters. David successfully navigates the increasing legal and regulatory responsibilities involved in project finance for clients to help them evaluate and manage legal and reputational risk.
Deirdre Munnelly
Deirdre Munnelly
Deirdre is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Mason Hayes & Curran. Specialising in Insurance Litigation, she acts for clients in the defence of public and employer’s liability, professional negligence, and other insurance related claims. She has a particular expertise in dealing with the defence of defamation claims and also advises on insurance coverage issues. As well as dealing with claims, Deirdre provides regular training to clients on health and safety risk, statutory requirements and changes and developments in insurance defence litigation. She has a keen interest in emerging trends and innovations and how these can benefit her clients. She is also a CEDR accredited mediator.
Dorit McCann
Dorit McCann
Dorit is a Partner in the Competition & Antitrust and Public Procurement teams at Mason Hayes & Curran. Dorit possesses extensive experience advising on all aspects of EU competition and procurement law. She regularly advises clients on the competition law implications of commercial contracts, merger control, antitrust investigations, abuse of a dominant position, compliance and enforcement issues, State aid as well as competition litigation. She also advises clients on state aid matters and the impending Irish foreign direct investment screening regime. In addition, Dorit has an excellent track record of advising public and private sector clients in the public and utilities sectors on a wide range of procurement issues, including advising on procurement strategy and execution, drafting procurement documentation, advising on selection and award criteria, evaluation methodology and scoring matrix, debrief requirements and defending or initiating a legal challenge. Dorit is known for her keen eye for detail and pragmatic and solution-focused advice. She has practised law in England, Northern Ireland and Ireland for 25 years and is used to advising clients on cross-jurisdictional issues. Her experience allows her to draw on the practice in these jurisdictions and to develop strategies and solutions to difficult issues.
Elizabeth Ryan
Elizabeth Ryan
Elizabeth (‘Liz’) is a partner in the Employment & Benefits team. She supports employers in both the private and public sectors across a wide range of organisations. Liz has considerable experience in working with employers who are effecting change in the workplace. Liz provides non-contentious employment law advice to clients ranging from the practical application of employment statute to assisting clients in drafting employment contracts and policies. Liz also has considerable experience in acting for clients in contentious employment litigation before employment law fora and civil courts.Liz has advised on complex employee investigations to include those which have been instigated under an employer’s disciplinary, grievance, bullying and harassment and protected disclosures policies.
Ger Connolly
Ger Connolly
Ger is a partner in Mason Hayes & Curran's Employment Law & Benefits team. He advises employers in the public and private sector on all employment law and industrial relations issues. Ger acts for clients in various employment claims such as unfair dismissal, equality/discrimination, occupational stress, fixed-term and part-time work, restraint of trade, strikes and picketing. Ger has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of the termination of employment including redundancy and collective redundancy, unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and constructive dismissal. He provides expert support to the firm’s corporate clients on the various employment law issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions. This includes in-depth due diligence exercises, compliance reviews, negotiating employee-related indemnities and warranties and advising on the applicability of the European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003.
Hannah Devoy
Hannah Devoy
Hannah is a Partner in the Construction, Infrastructure & Utilities team at Mason Hayes & Curran. Her practice focuses on complex and high-value construction and energy disputes, often with an international component. Hannah has represented international and domestic clients in prominent construction cases before the Commercial Court. Significant recent cases have involved major PPP infrastructure projects in Ireland, disputes under the Irish public works framework, and complex bond claims, along with other high value construction claims for delay, loss and expense, variations, and defects. Alternative dispute resolution is a significant element of Hannah’s practice. She has represented international and domestic clients in arbitrations seated in Dublin and abroad, including under ICC and LCIA Rules. She also advises litigants on enforcement and set aside applications under the Arbitration Act 2010, and on bringing applications to stay proceedings to arbitration. Hannah has represented clients in both making and defending multi-million euro claims in mediation, conciliation, and in adjudication under the Construction Contracts Act. Over the past 3 years, she has acted in claims in adjudication with a cumulative value of over €55 million, and has successfully enforced favourable adjudicator’s decisions before the Irish High Court. As part of her energy practice, Hannah acts for major electricity generators in obtaining successful outcomes against SEMO under the I-SEM Trading and Settlement Code. In 2019 she represented a successful generator in obtaining a significant win and the first against SEMO since the introduction of I-SEM. Since 2019, she has assisted major generator clients in reversing difference charges imposed upon generators across multiple dispute processes under the Trading & Settlement Code. She regularly advises market participants on the I-SEM Capacity Market Code and acts for clients in disputes against the System Operators. Recently, she secured a successful outcome for a generator client in a Qualification Dispute relating to the T-4 2028/2029 Capacity Auction.
James Morrin
James Morrin
James is a Partner on the Dispute Resolution team at Mason Hayes & Curran. He advises on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution (including alternative dispute resolution) and has a particular focus on the law of corporate restructuring and insolvency. James has significant experience in high-value and complex disputes across a broad range of industry sectors. He specialises in contractual, shareholder, financial services, debt recovery and enforcement disputes, and his clients comprise financial institutions, corporates, private equity funds and shareholders. James also regularly acts for insolvency practitioners, companies and creditors in relation to solvency issues and in formal insolvency processes including receivership, liquidation, examinership, SCARP and related litigation. He regularly advises directors in relation to their fiduciary duties. He is also experienced in high value, complex, and multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation arising from supply chain disputes, shareholder disputes, professional negligence and civil fraud.
Jamie Fitzmaurice
Jamie Fitzmaurice
Jamie is a partner in the Real Estate team. He has significant cross border experience and specialises in portfolio acquisitions and dispositions for private equity buyers and REITs. Jamie regularly advises on the buying, selling and financing of large scale multi-family, PRS and BTR developments and has significant experience in forward fund and purchase structures. He is also a member of the our Retail team and has acquired specialist knowledge in landlord and tenant law particularly for prominent multinational and domestic retailers. A commercially intelligent and pragmatic approach are the hall marks of his advice. Translating complex issues into easily digestible advice that make decisions easier for clients is a core part of his practice.
Kevin Power
Kevin Power
Kevin leads the Healthcare and Medical Law team at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP, specialising in healthcare and life sciences law & regulation. He is a former practising medical doctor, which gives him a particular insight into the issues and challenges facing the healthcare sector.He advises a number of Ireland’s major obstetric, general and psychiatric hospitals in both public and private sectors, for the Clinical Indemnity Scheme, and for a number of leading Irish & multinational pharmaceutical, medical device, food companies and laboratories. He has particular expertise in the defence of complex high value clinical negligence cases, advocacy and product liability litigation. Kevin also advises a wide range of clients in the healthcare and life sciences sectors on various regulatory issues including advertising, product safety & recall and regulatory enforcement.
Liam Riordan
Liam Riordan
Liam is a Partner in the Employment Law and Benefits team. He specialises in education law and has extensive experience advising the full range of educational institutions. Liam advises on a wide range of issues that arise from the day-to-day interaction of teachers, students, parents and management. He frequently supports clients on the operation of disciplinary procedures and grievance procedures. He has also advised on the investigation of complaints including bullying/harassment complaints as well as on dealing with statutory bodies. Liam has represented Boards of Management in all the relevant employment fora up to and including the Supreme Court. He works closely with the relevant management bodies representing management in the education sector. Few lawyers in Ireland can rival his depth of expertise and breadth of knowledge in the education sector.
Liam Brazil
Liam Brazil
Liam is a Partner on the Corporate team. He advises clients in relation to with their corporate business affairs. He acquires and sells companies and has a reputation for being focused, practical and having the temperament to get the deal done. Liam’s work can range from helping clients to establish their businesses using corporate structures, to assisting clients with taking in investment or funding. He also advises on re-structuring ownership arrangements and on the acquisition and selling of companies. In corporate transactions, clients can face any number of issues to deal with. Liam’s role is to guide the client through the issue and to find, where possible, a practical and commercial solution. While his practice is broad, Liam has worked quite extensively on renewables transactions, acting for developers, investors and financial institutions.
Niall Michel
Niall Michel
Niall is a litigation partner in the Public, Regulatory & Investigations team at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP. Amongst other things, he shares his industry-leading experience with clients in the regulatory sphere. A large part of his practice is in the areas of sectoral and professional regulation, professional discipline and judicial review. In particular, he advises clients extensively in the areas of financial services, utilities, aviation and legal services regulation, navigating complex issues, including compliance, regulation, supervision, investigation and enforcement. He advises clients in the proper conduct of investigations and inquiries. This includes guiding clients on the exercise of regulatory powers, the procedures to be followed, and the respective parties’ rights and obligations. Niall is also an expert in information-provision, access and disclosure generally, such as in regulatory and dispute-resolution contexts - including confidentiality and privilege – as well as in Freedom of Information. Niall conducts all related dispute-resolution, as well as being active in judicial review and public procurement litigation generally.
Oisín Tobin
Oisín Tobin
Oisín is a Partner in our Technology and Privacy and Data Security teams. He is an expert in formulating and implementing global privacy and data transfer strategies. He is known for his work advising and defending the world’s leading technology companies. Oisín works with companies on the development and rollout of innovative technologies with a focus on privacy by design. He also acts for businesses under investigation by European data protection authorities and in data privacy-related litigation. He has a reputation as the go-to lawyer for commercially driven privacy and technology law advice in difficult cases. He regularly represents many of the internet’s best-known companies and frequently acts as a trusted advisor at senior level. His time as Head of our San Francisco office means that he has an innate understanding of the needs of fast paced technology companies.
Peter Johnston
Peter Johnston
Peter is a Dispute Resolution Partner. He advises domestic and international clients on complex commercial disputes, and contentious regulatory matters. Known for his commercially focused advice, Peter has extensive experience in advising clients on matters involving financial services litigation and shareholder disagreements. Peter leads large-scale projects associated with all legal aspects of regulatory inquiries. In addition, he has comprehensive experience in matters involving expedited case management in the Commercial Court. Peter advises professionals and their insurers in professional negligence claims and partnerships in various professions. He has wide-ranging experience in property disputes, and advises airlines, lessors and financiers on a range of contentious issues and disputes in the aviation sector.
Rory Kirrane SC
Rory Kirrane SC
Rory Kirrane SC is Head of the Construction, Infrastructure and Utilities Department and co-heads the Energy team at Mason Hayes & Curran. He has represented numerous international clients on high-value strategic projects in the Renewable Energy, Technology, and Real Estate sectors including a number of multi-billion euro investments. He was appointed Senior Counsel by the Government of Ireland in 2020, the first occasion this position has been conferred on solicitors. Rory has extensive experience in both contentious and non-contentious Energy and Construction issues. He is the go-to advisor for high value and strategically important developments in Ireland due to his commercial mindset. He frequently represents clients in all forms of ADR, particularly arbitration, and has appeared before Ireland’s Commercial Court as advocate. He is widely recognised as a superb negotiator and advocate for clients. Rory has represented clients in court processes on a wide range of commercial matters and is frequently called as an expert witness. Rory often represents major electricity generators in dispute processes under Ireland’s Single Electricity Trading and Settlement Code against the Market Operator relating to balancing market price spikes. He has secured novel and significant outcomes in favour of generators.
Eoin Cassidy