KPMG in Ireland

KPMG Law LLP advises on the full range of international business reorganisation matters and has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border mergers, investment arrangements and separation exercises and integrations. KPMG Law LLP also assists with tax structuring issues, legal entity simplifications and provides corporate immigration and employment law advice. John Given heads the team, which, within KPMG’s multi-disciplinary offering, works seamlessly through tax, legal, accounting and regulatory issues to find solutions and efficiencies for our clients.

KPMG legal services was established in 2014 and while KPMG legal services is new, our experience is not. Our legal team has joined us from leading Irish and international firms and corporates with extensive experience and credentials in their areas of practice. Our offering is underpinned by top quality lawyers and KPMG’s global footprint with over 2,800 legal professionals across 81 countries globally. Through collaboration and innovation, we combine expertise in law with business insight and technology-enabled solutions.

Structuring

As part of Ireland’s leading tax practice, our legal services structuring team works every day with preeminent Irish and international clients to implement and evolve complex group and capital arrangements, documenting and implementing domestic cross-border transactions and restructures in Ireland and as part of the international group structuring projects.

Michael Moore specialises in corporate and debt structuring and commercial contracting. Aisling Garry, responsible for research, implementation and roll out of technology initiatives, also focuses on corporate restructuring and investment arrangements.

Deals

As part of an international legal services network, we are committed to and focused on our clients’ aims, the delivery of effective solutions and pre-empting legal issues and obstacles in transactions. The team has particular skill in advising on domestic and cross-border corporate acquisitions, business sales and founder exits, shareholder agreements and joint ventures, capital raising and funding arrangements and management buy-outs and buy-ins.

KPMG Law head, John Given, is a key figure. Jacob Gray and Colm O’Connell also stand out for their M&A work.

Commercial and Regulatory

We work with leading Irish and international businesses, providing commercial legal and regulatory advice in an efficient and cost-effective manner. The advice and services we offer in the commercial arena are client-driven and are often provided in conjunction with other KPMG services such as transaction services, corporate finance, tax advice and the provision of advice for the financial services sector. We offer strategic and pragmatic advise on financial services regulatory legal requirements, information technology and software agreements and business structures and trading arrangements. Aisling Garry and Gillian Morrissey are both experienced in banking and financial services regulatory law.

Employment and Immigration

Led by Aoife Newton, KPMG’s Corporate Immigration and Employment Law team is a dedicated division within Legal Services, covering the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. We offer practical legal advice on all aspects of Irish and European employment and immigration law and assist with the management of the human resource aspects of domestic and international restructuring. The team includes employment lawyers specialising in all aspects of the employment cycle – from recruitment to terminations, and immigration law specialists who manage and advise on all aspects of corporate immigration and co-ordinate clients’ global mobility matters.

Legal Company Secretarial

As your trusted company secretarial service provider and the largest provider of company secretarial services of any professional firm in Ireland, we can work with you to ensure your entities are best placed to meet the constantly increasing governance, company law and regulatory compliance burden. Outsourcing your Company Secretarial function to KPMG will give you direct access to highly experienced Chartered Secretaries who will provide guidance on the Companies Act, all related statutory instruments and EU directives. The team is managed by Salvador Nash who has particular experience in advising clients on share capital structure, share registration and implementation of share re-organisations. Salvador is a Fellow of The Chartered Governance Institute, he is President of the Institute in Ireland and a member of its Governance & Nomination Committee.  Salvador also represents the Institute on the Company Law Review Group, the statutory advisory expert body charged with advising the Irish Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation on the review and development of company law in Ireland. He is also Chair of its Corporate Governance Committee.