EY Law Ireland

At EY Law Ireland, we align with the wider EY global purpose of building a better working world. We are a stand-alone law firm, regulated by the Law Society of Ireland and offer a full array of legal services. We are a member firm of a wider global network of EY law firms. Our team of Irish lawyers work with our clients locally and internationally to meet their ongoing legal and commercial objectives for their businesses.

We listen to our clients and understand their needs. Our advice and strategies for clients is bespoke to our clients' needs.

We work collaboratively with clients to offer client-focused efficiencies with the ability to seek all professional services from EY and EY Law Ireland.

Our unique, end-to-end legal services offering helps clients navigate a rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape in Ireland, which is enhanced by direct access to 3,400+ EY Law professionals across over 90 jurisdictions. Our lawyers understand the critical interplay between law, finance and tax in today's economy. By partnering with other EY experts across the EY network, we offer a multidisciplinary, one-stop-shop, integrated approach. This help clients navigate complex commercial and legal issues quickly, efficiently and helps reduce the gap between business advisors and legal counsel to increase efficiency and speed to market.

In Ireland and globally, we disrupt conventional siloed professional services and offer sophisticated clients a compelling alternative. We attract ambitious talent who partner with our growing client base to deliver long-term sustainable value. EY Law invests heavily in our people and in technology as we shape the future of the provision of professional services, and together with our clients build a better working world.

As a market disruptor, we have strategically developed our key legal practice areas, leveraging the expertise of our partners at EY Ireland. This strategic alignment empowers our lawyers to deliver bespoke, market-leading legal advice that factors in the crucial interplay between law, finance, and tax in today’s dynamic economy. By seamlessly integrating with EY experts across our global network, we offer an unparalleled, multidisciplinary one-stop-shop solution. This ensures our clients can adeptly navigate complex commercial and legal landscapes with exceptional speed, efficiency, and precision.

At our core, we are a disruptive full-service legal services provider supported by the scale, technology and expertise of a global Big4 firm. We are able to creatively apply our resources, methods and technologies beyond traditional law firms to more extensively and fundamentally alter the way in which legal services are delivered to our clients.

As a recent entrant to the Irish market, EY Law Ireland is undergoing significant growth and expansion, driven by our commitment to delivering exceptional legal services. This growth is further bolstered by our ability to leverage the extensive expertise of over 200 legal professionals at EY Law UK. By collaborating closely with our UK counterparts, we are able to offer a broader range of specialised legal knowledge and innovative solutions, ensuring that clients benefit from a truly integrated and comprehensive service offering.

EY Law Ireland's practice areas are:

M&A and Transactions

• Mergers and Acquisitions – domestic and cross-border, including legal due diligence, deal negotiation and execution
• Guiding our clients from deal 'design' stage, through negotiation to implementation and integration
• Joint ventures and shareholders Agreements
• Private equity and venture capital
• Analysing corporate group structures
• Streamlining or rationalising groups to facilitate pre-sale planning and optimise tax and other efficiencies
• Providing strategic advice and corporate governance support to boards
• Post-deal integration
• Corporate Advisory including Company Law, Commercial Law, Shareholder controversy, corporate governance, insolvency and restructuring and EU competition law and merger control

Employment Law

• Advising on investigations/disciplinary processes
• Discrimination/equality queries
• Whistleblower investigations
• Litigation arising from employment (Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court)
• Employment due diligence for asset and share deals
• Managing consultation requirements
• Advising on industrial relations engagement issues
• Post-deal workforce integration
• Collective redundancies
• Advising on communication strategy
• Supporting with selection process, managing appeals and subsequent litigation
• Post re-organisation integration and managing people issues

Technology and Commercial Law

• Technology - ICT contracts, software licensing and services, SaaS, software partner arrangements, reseller arrangements, managed services, licensing
• Outsourcing arrangements
• Commercial joint ventures
• Cyber security and operational resilience
• Data Protection and Privacy
• Artificial intelligence
• Intellectual Property and Digital Assets
• Contracts and Supply Chain
• Platform and Content Regulation
• Consumer Regulation

Corporate Governance and Compliance

• Incorporations and dissolutions of corporate entities and registrations and de-registrations of branches
• Annual compliance support
• Board and Officer changes
• Company name or registered office changes
• Arranging approval of powers of attorney or other delegated authorities
• Updating company constitutions
• Assisting with changes to share capital
• Internal capital contributions/share issuances/declaring dividends
• Providing director duty training to boards of Irish companies
• Provide Board and Committees support in relation to their meetings

Real Estate and Development Law

• Acquisitions and Disposals - acting for purchaser and vendor in respect of properties such as office blocks, wind farms, renewal projects, shopping centres, development sites, social housing, private residential schemes, nursing homes, hospitals, multi-use developments, standalone retail units, hotels and leisure facilities and private residential schemes
• Commercial Leasing - Our advice extends to advising on agreements for lease, occupational leases, side letters, deeds of variation, assignments, underleases, surrenders and/or supplemental leases.
• Development of commercial and/or residential schemes - Acting for developers and property owners in setting up and implementing commercial developments and schemes, residential, mixed-use, retail, office, industrial, logistics and hospitality
• Advisory -All real estate aspects of large-scale infrastructure and other capital investment projects

Private Client Law

• Wills
• Estate and succession planning
• Establishment and administration of trusts
• Probate and administration of estates
• Capacity issues – including advising on Enduring Powers of Attorney
• Contentious trust and estate matters
• Charity law, the establishment & administration of charities

Tax Strategy and Disputes

• Providing objective insights into the full range of tax issues
• Advising on all categories of disputes with the Revenue Commissioners
• Preparation of submissions and representation at the Tax Appeals Commission and the Courts
• Providing tax and legal opinions