Matheson LLP

Head of Corporate and Commercial Department

Robert O'Shea is a senior partner in the Corporate department at Matheson.

He is a former member of the firm's Management Committee and was head of the Corporate Department from 2017 to 2023. Robert spent over 15 years as Head of Matheson's International Business Group where he advised many of the world's leading technology and life sciences companies on Irish corporate matters.

Robert has extensive experience in leading multi-jurisdictional transactions and has advised in relation to some of the largest inward investment and restructuring projects in Ireland.  In particular he has extensive experience drafting and advising on the legal documentation associated with cross-border restructurings and inward investment projects and the complex legal issues that can arise in re-organisation projects.

Robert is a member of the Law Society of Ireland, the Law Society of England and Wales and an associate member of the American Bar Association (ABA).  Robert has published and presented on a variety of corporate and international business law topics both in Ireland and overseas.  He has also lectured extensively on various corporate and commercial law topics for the Law Society of Ireland, as well as at Irish universities and industry associations such as International Fiscal Association.  In 2019 Robert was also appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board of the University of Galway School of Law.

Harvard Law School ("Leadership in Law Firms" programme); Qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales (non-practising); Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland; University College Galway and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (LLB); University College Galway (BA in Legal Science and History).