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Aoife Bradley
Aoife Bradley
Aoife’s practice is primarily focused on contentious employment law matters and commercial litigation. Aoife is an experienced practitioner in the area of employment related disputes involving senior executives and pension and employee benefit related disputes. She has considerable experience in the area of unfair dismissal, employment injunctions, discrimination, redundancy, bullying and harassment and stress related matters, disciplinary investigations and proceedings. As part of her practice, Aoife regularly assists clients in developing risk management strategies in respect of employment and litigation issues. She also provides ongoing support to a range of domestic and multi-national clients on non-contentious employment law matters. Her approach is to provide practical advice and solutions that work for clients. Aoife also has considerable experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution to include contractual disputes, commercial disputes and professional negligence claims defending solicitors, architects and engineers. Aoife is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences on employment issues and has had articles published on a wide range of topical employment law related matters.
Ciara O’Kennedy
Ciara O’Kennedy
Ciara acts in a broad range of employment, commercial, contractual and tortious disputes. She advises on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues with significant experience in contentious employment matters and in particular resolving complex and sensitive disputes involving the senior executives and employee shareholders, to include the negotiation and drafting of severance packages relating to senior management exits and advising on all aspects of corporate governance issues associated with such exits. Ciara advises on all legal issues arising out of the employment relationship including employment contracts, TUPE disciplinary issues, dismissal, together with partnering with clients to implement remote working and hybrid working policies, tailored to the specific industry needs. Ciara is the Chair of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association Employment Committee and is a regular speaker at employment events.
Clare Dowling
Clare practises in commercial litigation, specialising in corporate insolvency and restructuring and commercial disputes. Clare has acted in large scale commercial disputes across a range of areas including shareholder disputes, property disputes and contractual claims. Clare advises on all aspects of debt recovery and enforcement issues. Clare has particular expertise in advising on liquidations, examinerships and receiverships as well as formal and informal restructurings and reorganisations. Clare also has wide experience of insolvency related litigation, acting for both insolvency office-holders and secured and unsecured creditors in disputes.
David Naughton
David Naughton
David Naughton is a Partner in the Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Investment Funds and Financial Services Regulation Team. David focuses his practice on investment fund formation, debt capital markets, financial services regulatory advice and insurance advisory matters. He primarily represents institutional and entrepreneurial investment managers, financial services firms and private investment funds in all aspects of their business. David’s experience includes structuring investment management firms, hedge funds, private equity funds, hybrid funds and funds of funds; and structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments. He frequently advises fund clients in the ESG and fintech spaces and is developing expertise in digital asset fund structures. David also acts for Irish and international issuers, originators, lead managers, arrangers, rating agencies and trustees on some of the most complex debt capital market issuances. He regularly advises investment management firms and their principals on financial services regulatory compliance. David also advises insurance and reinsurance companies, as well as intermediaries, on all aspects of their business including portfolio transfers, and regulatory matters. David is an active industry participant and contributes regularly to thought leadership pieces in leading Ireland based and international legal publications and journals.  He is also a frequent conference speaker and has delivered lectures on financial services law for the Law Society of Ireland.  He holds several senior positions on steering groups for Irish Funds and AIMA.
Emmet Scully
Emmet Scully
Emmet is an experienced corporate lawyer with expertise advising on a variety of M&A and private equity transactions, as well as corporate and private equity structuring. Emmet’s expertise includes corporate restructuring, private equity and venture capital transactions, venture capital investment structures, M&A transactions, joint ventures, and shareholders' agreements. Emmet is the co-author of "The Law and Practice of Irish Stamp Duty" and the editor of the annual stamp duty legislative update both of which are published by the Irish Taxation Institute. He regularly provides support to tax advisers and other solicitors on technical stamp duty issues. Emmet is the former Chairman of the Taxation Administration Liaison Committee Audit Sub-committee and former member of the Taxation Committee of the Law Society of Ireland.
Ian Lavelle
Ian Lavelle
Ian is a partner in our Litigation and Dispute Resolution department. He advises domestic and international businesses in complex litigation and regulatory investigations and inquires. He is accustomed to acting in strategically important cases before the higher courts in Ireland and England, having practised in London for seven years prior to re-joining LK Shields. Ian also advises clients in mediation, adjudication and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.  He is a strong advocate of these often more business-friendly means of disposing of disputes.
Jamie Ritchie
Jamie is a partner in the Infrastructure, Construction, Energy, and Projects team. He has played a central role in working with some of our largest domestic and international clients on their infrastructure, construction, and energy legal requirements. In non-contentious matters, Jamie acts for clients from across a multitude of sectors in relation to a wide variety of asset classes and infrastructure.  His work has encompassed numerous contractual structures and procurement models, including design and build, traditional format, EPCM and development agreements. He is also a specialist in all of the main standard form construction contracts utilised within the Irish market, including RIAI, Public Works, NEC, JCT and FIDIC as well as more bespoke contracts. In contentious matters, Jamie has represented both public and private sector clients in a diverse range of construction, procurement and energy related disputes.  He leads a multi-disciplinary team that regularly act for clients in arbitration, adjudication, conciliation, and mediation. Jamie acts on behalf of entities from every level of the contractual matrix, including project sponsors, funders, developers, employers, sureties, contractors, specialist suppliers and consultants.
Jane O’Grady
Jane is dual qualified as a solicitor and a trade mark and design attorney, with many years’ experience advising on commercial contracts, intellectual property, commercial agency and all aspects of technology law. Jane’s practice focuses on intellectual property and data protection and she has particular expertise in advising on the intellectual property and data protection aspects of acquisitions and sales. She is also proficient in advising on pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply agreements in addition to the legal requirements for medical devices and diagnostic technologies. Jane regularly advises on protection, commercialisation and infringement of intellectual property.  She also advises on all aspects of privacy law including GDPR compliance projects, data subject access requests and cross-border transfers of personal data.  Jane is a registered trade mark and design attorney in Ireland and the European Union. Jane has extensive experience acting for businesses on high value, complex contracts including cross-border agreements. She works closely with domestic and multinational clients in multiple sectors to deliver commercially focused solutions in their contractual arrangements. Jane’s work covers drafting and negotiating outsourcing agreements, software licences, service level agreements, website and app terms of use and end-user licence agreements. She also has expertise advising on a broad range of other commercial agreements including advising on distribution and supply agreements, and consultancy agreements for major pharmaceutical companies. Jane has published articles on her specialist areas in the Irish media and is the co-author of the Ireland chapter in the ICLG 2019 and 2020 editions of Trade Mark Laws and Regulations.
Jennifer Clarke
Jennifer Clarke
Jennifer is highly experienced in commercial litigation and dispute resolution and has particular expertise litigating high value commercial disputes before the High Court (including its Commercial Court division) and in appeals to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Jennifer acts for domestic and international companies in the commercial, banking, non-bank lending, construction and hospitality sectors. Through the processes of mediation, arbitration and negotiated terms of settlement, Jennifer has successfully resolved disputes on behalf of clients.
Jennifer McGuire
Jennifer is partner and Head of the Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) team. Jennifer advises leading Irish and international public and private companies and private shareholders on all aspects of corporate and commercial law and specialises in mergers and acquisitions. Jennifer has been lead Partner on some of the largest and highest profile deals the firm has been involved in domestically and internationally. Jennifer is a trusted advisor to her diverse range of clients who value her wealth of experience and commercial acumen. Jennifer has gained considerable experience in corporate and commercial law and particularly in transactional work both in Ireland and abroad. Jennifer has worked on several large, high profile and complex transactions in Ireland, the UK, central and eastern Europe, the Caribbean/Central America, Pacific Rim area, the Middle East and China. Jennifer also regularly advises on private fund raisings, shareholders/joint venture agreements, start-ups, corporate finance, management buy-outs, corporate reorganisations and commercial law. Jennifer has extensive experience advising on foreign direct investment, assisting international companies planning on doing business in Ireland and advising on related matters.
Jennifer O'Neill
Jennifer O'Neill
Jennifer is a Consultant in the Employment team. Jennifer is an experienced practitioner in the area of employment law and has considerable expertise advising clients on employment issues arising on the acquisition or sale of a business or corporate entity. This includes conducting in depth due diligence and risk analysis exercises and negotiating warranty and indemnity protection in asset and share purchase agreements. Jennifer regularly advises clients on the implications of the transfer of undertakings regulations whether on the outsourcing of services or the lease or sale of a business and assists employers with the related consultation and employee benefit issues. Jennifer provides both domestic and international clients with ongoing employment law support to include compliance with legal requirements on working time, leave arrangements, incapacity and disability issues, employment permits, compromise agreements, redundancies and drafting and/or reviewing contracts of employment, handbooks, policies and arrangements with independent contractors Jennifer has published employment law articles on a wide range of issues.
Jenny Ahern
Jenny Ahern
Jenny is a corporate banking specialist and has extensive experience in dealing with domestic and cross-border transactions involving multi-jurisdictional finance arrangements. Jenny advises both lender and borrower clients on notable acquisition and leveraged finance transactions as well as a range of corporate lending, commercial real estate, development finance and fund finance transactions. Her wealth of experience also includes advising on high profile debt restructurings and significant portfolio acquisitions and disposals.
Jill Callanan
Jill is a partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution team and advises on all aspects of commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Jill is an experienced litigator whose practice spans a broad range of complex commercial and regulatory disputes.  Jill has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial litigation, in particular contractual, shareholder and property disputes. Jill has also extensive experience representing parties before tribunals of enquiry and commissions established by the Oireachtas. Jill is also a leading member of the Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency team and has acted in some of the most high-profile insolvencies in recent years.  Jill has vast experience of advising in restructuring, examinerships, receiverships and liquidations on behalf of all stakeholders including companies, directors, officeholders, insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, shareholders and creditors.
Marco Hickey
Marco is a senior corporate partner who has advised on many significant transactions including complex restructurings, tax-driven transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He has acted for many large corporations, both domestic and international, private equity firms, entrepreneurs, investment managers and management teams (MBOs and MBIs). He has considerable experience in  EU and Irish competition law (antitrust) including merger control and State aid. Marco is also experienced in EU customs and trade law matters. Marco has advised extensively on various EU Block Exemptions Regulations including those applicable to the motor vehicle sector. Marco is an acknowledged expert on Irish competition law and has acted in some of the most significant complaints and merger reviews conducted under the Irish Competition Act. Marco has written extensively in the topic of EU, Competition and Regulated Markets and is the author of "Merger Control" which was published by the Thomson Reuters group in May, 2013. This book is the first book exclusively devoted to the competition law implications of mergers and acquisitions in Ireland.
Muireann Granville
Muireann is a Partner in our Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. Muireann advises on a wide variety of general and commercial litigation disputes including contract disputes, construction disputes and property litigation, disputes in relation to complex financial structures, professional negligence claims and intellectual property disputes. Muireann has worked on a number of complex high-value disputes before the Commercial Court and has particular expertise in the area of discovery, having managed several large-scale e-discovery projects. She regularly presents and publishes on the issue of legal professional privilege. Muireann has also advised in several mediations.
Peter O’Reilly
Peter specialises in property finance transactions and has extensive experience acting for financial institutions and alternative lenders in secured lending transactions including development finance and commercial property finance. Peter also advises corporate and high network clients on property aspects of secured lending transactions. Peter advises financial institutions on loan restructures and enforcement and works closely with receivers and other service providers in the realisation of secured assets.  Peter also acts for corporate and investor clients in a wide variety of commercial property and property development transactions. Prior to joining Byrne Wallace Shields, Peter worked in-house for one of the country’s main financial institutions.
Philip Daly
Philip Daly is a Consultant in the Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Corporate Team and Energy and Natural Resources Team. Philip's practice is primarily in the areas of Corporate and Commercial, and Energy and Natural Resources. He acts for a wide range of businesses with a particular number involved in the area of energy and natural resources. In corporate matters, Philip has acted for both buyers and sellers in transactions as well as advising on private equity funding rounds, shareholders agreements and corporate restructurings. Philip also advises a number of trade associations on their regulatory and corporate law needs. Given his significant experience and focus on the energy sector, Philip is the Head of the firm’s Energy and Natural Resources team. He advises a number of household names in the energy sector on their legal, contractual and regulatory needs.
Richard Curran
Richard Curran is a Partner and Head of the Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Corporate Team. Richard has extensive experience in corporate finance transactions. He practices in the areas of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions and also development finance. In corporate finance transactions Richard has acted for both buyers and sellers in M&A transactions across all sectors as well as advising in private equity transactions, shareholder arrangements and joint ventures. In development finance transactions, Richard acts for developers of residential and retail developments as well as in healthcare, student accommodation and renewable energy. Richard began his career at another leading Dublin firm and earlier in his career worked in London and Berlin with Hammonds, a leading UK law firm (now part of international firm Squire Patton Boggs). Richard is a Ministerial Nominee to the Company Law Review Group, an expert body established under the Companies Act 2014 to advise the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on company law. Richard is a member of the Council of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce.
Ruairi Mulrean
Ruairí practises in the areas of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and insolvency. Ruairí also practices in the areas of company and commercial law advising both international and domestic clients. In particular he focuses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and insolvency. Ruairí advises both domestic and international clients in a wide range of sectors including energy, waste and manufacturing. Ruairí has a particular interest in taxation being a member of the Irish Taxation Institute and has advised on various tax driven group reorganisations and the implementation of other tax driven structures.
Seanna Mulrean
Seanna practises in corporate and commercial law and is also a member of the firm’s  Infrastructure, Construction and Energy team. She has expertise in a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (in particular cross-border transactions) and advises on commercial contracts.  Seanna has acted for both buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions and advised on joint ventures and corporate restructurings. In  Infrastructure, Construction and Energy Seanna has experience advising on all stages of projects within the waste and wastewater, healthcare, telecommunications, energy and natural resources and transport sectors. Seanna advises on the key types of contracts and agreements most used during the projects and construction lifecycle.  She has advised on public procurement, supply agreements and the drafting and negotiation of construction contracts including those based on industry standards such as RIAI, FIDIC, and LOGIC. This experience in construction and projects means Seanna is well equipped to support clients in navigating the challenges associated with corporate transactions and commercial contracts in the Projects and Construction space.
Shane Neville
Shane acts for national and international businesses in a wide variety of commercial disputes and general litigation. Shane’s practice has a particular focus on advising insurers and defending insured businesses in professional indemnity and other financial-lines matters.  Niche areas of expertise of his include solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance regulations and partnership law. Shane’s commercial litigation experience includes acting for technology or “big tech” companies, acting in energy/oil-industry disputes and advising regarding contractual disputes.
Simon Mahon
Simon specialises in corporate banking, representing international and domestic banks, alternative lenders and borrowers on a wide range of financing transactions. Simon has extensive experience in all forms of secured and unsecured lending across various industries, including acquisition and leveraged financing, real estate and development financing, debt re-structuring, asset-based financing and cash-flow lending, on a bi-lateral and syndicated basis. Simon advises Irish and international financial institutions (both senior and mezzanine lenders), alternative debt providers and borrowers (both corporates and individuals, including international corporate groups borrowing through Irish subsidiaries) across a broad spectrum of corporate banking matters. He has a strong track record with a focus on transactional work encompassing all manner of banking facilities and other financial products in the corporate banking sphere.