BHSM LLP

Partner, Head of Employment & Benefits

Additional Practice Areas:

Employment & Benefits Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring Healthcare Insurance & Professional Indemnity Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Richard is a Partner and Head of our Employment and Benefits Department.

Richard has significant experience acting for employers and employees in contentious and non-contentious matters. He advises on all aspects of the employment relationship, including obligations, rights and entitlements arising under employment legislation. Richard advises on all workplace employment issues, employee grievances, workplace investigations, disciplinary issues, employment equality issues, redundancies and industrial relations matters, together with employment law disputes that come before the Workplace Relations Commission and the Courts

Richard also has considerable experience in Commercial litigation advising clients in high value and complex High Court and Commercial Court cases. He advises commercial clients in High Court actions for breach of contract and lending institutions in breach of undertakings and professional negligence actions. Richard advises lending institutions and commercial clients in high value enforcement and debt recovery claims and also advises insolvency practitioners in Liquidations, Receiverships and Examinerships.

Richard advises lending institutions in the enforcement of mortgage security and in the area of Receiverships in Ireland. He also regularly acts for lending institutions and credit servicing firms in Personal Insolvency matters before the High Court, Circuit Court and Court of Appeal. He is also experienced in the area of landlord and tenant disputes.

Richard is a Recommended Lawyer in the Legal 500 EMEA Guide.

English

Law Society of Ireland Employment Law Association of Ireland Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners

Bachelor of Laws (LLB), National University of Ireland, Galway Bachelor of Arts, Legal Science, National University of Ireland, Galway Law Society of Ireland, Certificate in Commercial Contracts Qualified as a Solicitor in Ireland, Law Society of Ireland The Honourable Society of Kings Inns, Advanced Diploma in Applied Employment Law Law Society of Ireland, Certificate in Immigration Law & Practice