Maples Group

Property

Diarmuid is head of the Dublin Commercial Property team at Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm. Diarmuid advises on all types of commercial property transactions. He has extensive experience counselling private equity and institutional investors on all property law aspects involved in the acquisition, management and disposal of real estate assets and loan portfolios. Diarmuid also specialises in commercial landlord and tenant law, advising some of the country’s largest landlords and tenants on their commercial property portfolios. He has many years of experience advising leading private equity and institutional clients on their respective property portfolios across all industry sectors including office, retail, logistics and PRS.

Diarmuid joined the Maples Group in 2012, having previously worked for a large domestic Irish law firm. Prior to that, he qualified as an accountant in 1997 and spent several years working for one of Ireland’s leading multinationals, before qualifying as a solicitor in 2004. Diarmuid has been recommended in independent legal directories, including Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 where he is described as having "attention to detail in completing due diligence, his business acumen and his industry knowledge are second to none"; "offers five star quality in technical knowledge, commercial awareness, effectiveness and client service"; and "he is always contactable and is commercially minded with a knack for problem solving".

University College Cork, BCL (First Class Honours), 1999 Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, ACMA, 1997 University College Cork, B.Comm (Hons) 1994.