Accenture boasts one of the largest in-house legal teams in Ireland, and is fully equipped to support the myriad of legal requirements of a company which reported total employee numbers...

Established in 2014 and headquartered in Dublin, Accipiter is the wholly-owned aircraft leasing company of CK Asset Holdings Limited. Over the past four years, Accipiter has transitioned from a start-up...

Coming in for particular praise from nominating sources on the back of an established record of innovation, the Aer Lingus legal team also successfully supports and manages the myriad of...

Following the 2017 acquisition of International Lease Finance Corporation, AerCap became the largest aircraft leasing company in the world. Currently headquartered in Dublin and listed on the New York Stock...

AIG’s Ireland offices contain a number of highly qualified lawyers, who are able to fully support the diverse operations of the extensive insurance and financial services firm in Ireland. Legal...

Alkermes is a global biopharmaceutical manufacturing, research and development company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with a research facility in the US state of Massachusetts, as well as a manufacturing plant...

AIB is one of Ireland’s largest banks and one of the largest investors in Irish business as well as being a strong player in the commercial banking and financial research...

With Pioneer Investments acquired by Amundi in late 2016, Colm Callaly (global legal, global head of distribution legal, head of legal Ireland) and his legal team have gone from operating...

2018 has already proven to be an historic year for Apple, with the company famously becoming the first public US-headquartered company to be valued at over $1trillion in August. Its...

Head of legal affairs Emily Ennis refers to the ‘massive pace of change’ and rapid global expansion of ARI when discussing its legal team’s growth. The winning of a number...

As the third largest insurer in Ireland, AXA Insurance provides a whole range of products to customers across the country. A subsidiary of the French insurance giant AXA, the company...

The Bank of Ireland legal function, ultimately overseen by group general counsel Gabrielle Ryan, consists of one the most highly-respected legal teams in Ireland , providing a wide range of...

Representing over 70 domestic and multinational member institutions the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) is the representative body for the banking, financial and payment industries in the country. The...

Richard Henry, head of legal and corporate affairs, has led the legal team of two lawyers and two support staff at Beauparc Group through a period of development and change....

Since 2000, Davina Saint has served as general counsel and head of legal responsible for the legal team at BNP Paribas Group in Ireland, covering the team’s framework, corporate governance...

Owned by the Centrica group, Bord Gáis Energy (Bord) is an industry-leading Irish natural gas and electricity company and supplier of energy services operating in the Republic of Ireland since...

Anna-Marie Curry, company secretary and general counsel, leads the legal team at Bord Na Móna, an Irish publicly owned energy company with its origins in peat production which has grown...

UK telecommunications company BT has a major presence in Ireland, employing 600 people across five cities in the country and serving 1.2 million customers. It is a leader in Ireland...

Company secretary David Johnston leads the legal team in Ireland at C&C Group, which consists of four lawyers, one assistant company secretary, one paralegal and one administrator. C&C Group operate...

CarTrawler is one of the largest business-to-business travel technology platform companies, serving almost a billion passengers annually. Its online platform provides car rental and train booking software to travel booking...

Eadaoin Rock, general counsel, leads the 35 lawyers and six support staff that make up one of the largest and most accomplished legal teams in Ireland. The legal department is...

In common with their contemporaries in the financial services sector across Europe, Citi’s Ireland-based in-house lawyers have been dealing with an ever-increasing set of regulatory requirements of late, with this...

The legal team at Clanwilliam Group, a rapidly expanding global healthcare services and technology business headquartered in Dublin, is closely aligned with the Group’s rapid expansion which has seen the...

As one of Ireland’s largest commercial forestry businesses Coillte manages approximately 7% of the country’s land. The company is owned by the state and operates via three distinct businesses: the...

The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) is the independent national regulatory authority for the electronic communications and postal sectors and, as such, faces challenges not typically encountered by private operators....

Niamh Flood, director of legal services and head of data protection at CRH leads a legal team that provides expert guidance on all legal matters necessary for the continued success...

Sinead Gillen, general counsel since 2011, leads the legal department at Dairgold Co-Operative Society. Founded in 1990 from the merging of Mitchelstown and Ballyclough cooperatives, Dairygold is the largest farming...

The Davy Group is a financial services umbrella company for Ireland’s leading provider of stockbroking, wealth management and financial advisory services. The Group is divided into asset management, capital markets,...

The legal department of the Irish international sales, marketing and support services group DCC ensures the smooth, from a legal perspective, operation of the company’s four distinct business divisions –...

As legal director at Dell Technologies in Ireland since 2005, Philip Clesham uses his almost 15 years of experience at Dell and his considerable legal and scientific background, originally having...

Diageo’s ownership of major Irish brands Guinness and Baileys Irish Cream means it occupies a special place in the Irish business landscape. Indeed, regional counsel, Richard Kindred mentions that perhaps...

Ding was founded in 2006 to change billions of lives by accelerating mobile access and is the number one international mobile top-up platform in the world. Today, Ding’s users have...

Terence G O’Keeffe, is the law agent to the largest local authority in Ireland, Dublin City Council who are responsible for delivering services to the citizens of Dublin in the...

Dunnes Stores, an Irish retail institution for over 70 years, is still a family-run and privately owned operation, yet is one of the largest and most important retailers in Ireland...

The multinational power management company Eaton entered the Irish market in 2012 following a $1bn acquisition of Cooper Industries. Immediately following this transaction, the company changed its domicile from the...

The Irish telecommunications company and former state-owned monopoly Eir is currently in a process of transformation following a recent takeover by French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel. Besides being heavily relied...

Upon its inception in 2014, Ireland’s state-owned gas and water utility company Ervia brought together the country’s existing gas utility (renamed Gas Networks Ireland) and newly created water utility Irish...

Alan Daly, group head of legal, leads a team of 38 solicitors, 12 legal executives and eight legal secretaries at ESB (The Electricity Supply Board) providing advice and transactional support...

Based across Ireland and the US, Etsy’s legal function has been a key component of its marked success and rapid expansion in the e-commerce sector over recent years. Having carved...

Suzanne Tucker, general counsel at EY Ireland leads the legal team of five lawyers covering all elements of in-house legal matters for the company. She oversees a team that covers...

Associate general counsel and director Peter O’Neill heads Facebook’s Ireland-based international commercial advertising team, which supports the Facebook’s sales business in all jurisdictions apart from the United States and Canada....

Eleanor Daly, general counsel at FEXCO since 2011, currently leads the legal department at the Irish-based financial services company. Fexco is one of the world’s leading FinTech companies with operations...

Dublin based FPG Amentum is an independent provider of services to aircraft equity investors as well banks and debt investors in the aviation sector. Ranking as one of the top...

Michael O’Hara, group general counsel of Glanbia, leads a team of four solicitors in Ireland and a separate legal and regulatory team in the US comprising five lawyers and ten...

Neil Culkin explains that Google’s EMEA Headquarters in Dublin is home to some of the company’s core functions and accordingly the in-house legal team is comprised of a number of...

Goshawk is a thriving emerging business in the aviation industry specialising in commercial aircraft leasing with 183 planes worth over US$9.1bn in its portfolio. With offices in Dublin and Hong...

The Dublin-based Hawthorn Life operates as a European subsidiary of Columbia Insurance Company, a Berkshire Hathaway organisation. At present it supports and manages an existing book of variable annuities (including...

Having been present in Ireland for over 160 years, Dutch lager brewer HEINEKEN is today one of Ireland’s leading beer and cider companies. The highly-skilled legal function of the company...

Senior legal counsel and company secretary Anne-Marie Dempsey and legal counsel Jennifer Lee run the legal operations of Horizon Pharma which has gone through a recent major growth period. The...

Revolutionary online marketing and sales platform Hubspot is highly valued by its customers for allowing them input to their online presence via an assortment of innovative content management, social media...

As a division of IAC (Nasdaq: IAC), IAC Applications is part of a family that includes many of the most successful internet brands in the world, including Match, Tinder, Vimeo...

ICBC International Leasing Company’s Dublin-based legal team is highly praised by nominators as a ‘great team which excels in aircraft leasing, portfolio sales and other company activities’. The leasing arm...

Global pharmaceutical technology company ICON specialises in drug development solutions and services, biotechnology and medical devices and is headquartered in Dublin. Led by chief administrative officer, executive vice president and...

The Irish legal team of Investec Bank plc comprises a number of well-regarded solicitors in addition to a legal executive and a trainee solicitor, geared up to fully support all...

David Boyle has been general counsel at Irish Life since 2013, leading the legal department of the leading life assurance and pension company in Ireland established in 1939. Irish life...

John Sisk & Son’s head of legal and risk Kate Maton reports that the company’s cross-jurisdictional legal team has ‘recently implemented considerable improvements in the company’s approach to risk awareness...

Kerry Group is a major Irish public food company that owns a number of prominent brands, all widely recognised by consumers in the country. Headquartered in Tralee, County Kerry, the...

Since its establishment in the 1960s in Ireland, the building materials company Kingspan Group has grown into one of the largest businesses in the country with operations spanning Europe, North...

Alan Johnston, chief counsel and company secretary, leads the Liberty Insurance legal team of two lawyers and one support staff member. He describes it as ‘a lean legal team’, and...

The entire LinkedIn EMEA legal and public policy (L&PP) team is based in Dublin, and provides specialist advice to the LinkedIn business to help deliver its vision in region. The...

Led by highly-respected chief legal officer and senior vice president corporate affairs Tom Maher, the newly-expanded Mainstay Medical legal function has recently seen new legal talent added to the team...

General counsel Roisin Sweeney explains that Marlet Property Group’s market is ‘very fast moving’, requiring the company’s in-house legal team to be both agile and well-prepared in order to keep...

Mercury Engineering has had a very busy first half of 2018, as head of legal Darren Isaacson goes into. ‘We have undertaken some very high profile data centre projects in...

‘Cross-functional team work’ is what comes to John O’Halloran (Metlife’s head of legal for EMEA)’s mind when discussing successful collaboration and internal innovation. ‘We continuously seek to improve and standardise...

Rebecca Radloff has been senior attorney and head of legal at Microsoft Ireland in Dublin since 2016, with attorney experience at Microsoft since 2008 and previous private practice experience in...

Michelle O’Donnell has led the legal function at Musgrave Group – an institutional Irish food retail and wholesale company orperating with the largest market share in the sector – since...

The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has one of the largest in-house legal teams in Ireland, with 48 individuals across four divisions: residential delivery; deleveraging; litigation, asset management and investments;...

Led by UK-based Mark Maurice-Jones, Nestlé’s Ireland-focused legal team has been extremely proactive in terms of process improvements lately, especially in the area of internal compliance. ‘About a year ago’,...

Valerie Barlow is the head of legal at New Ireland Assurance, supported by three qualified lawyers, namely Shane Carragher, Richie Dingley and Patrick Collins, who are all of equal rank....

The transaction legal team at Nordic Aviation Capital (“NAC”), led by group vice president Marc Op de Weegh, manages all legal matters for a global fleet of over 400 aircraft,...

General counsel Gemma Neylon leads a team of five lawyers at OpenJaw Technologies, a market-leading travel retail technology development company based in Dublin which provides online and big data solutions...

Miriam Caley, head of legal Ireland, has led the legal department at Optum Ireland – a leading health services and technology company and part of UnitedHealth Group – since 2016...

OtterBox’s small but highly skilled legal team is led by general counsel Claire Lyons, who has overseen EMEA legal duties for over five and a half years, prior to which...

Under the stewardship of group general counsel and company secretary Edward Traynor since April 2015, the Paddy Power Betfair legal team has had a major impact on the successes of...

Through its multiple subsidiaries, the US international pharma manufacturer Perrigo sells its products primarily in North America and Europe with a growing presence in other markets such as Australia, Israel...

Legal director Rory Sullivan and legal counsel Muireann Mangan continue to provide commercially-focused advice to a broad range of Pfizer clients in Ireland across R&D, manufacturing, sales and finance in...

Project Management Group is a leading multinational construction and project delivery company operating across Europe, the US and Asia. Over its 45 year history, the company has been involved in...

PwC’s Ireland-based in-house legal team is undergoing an increase in capabilities and ‘very much evolving and establishing itself’ according to general counsel Elizabeth Davis. Still a relatively small team at...

The lean but highly capable Rabobank in-house legal team, led by head of legal Colin Fuller, is one of the foremost in its sector in Ireland. It has become recognised...

Led by long-standing chief legal and regulatory officer and company secretary Juliusz Komorek, Ryanair’s legal team is one of the most experienced and versatile in its sector in Europe. Handling...

Originating from the UK, registered in Jersey, headquartered in Ireland and with an operational base in the US, Shire Pharmaceuticals is a truly global pharmaceutical business whose products include well-known...

General Counsel, Audrey Marie O’Sullivan established and leads the legal function at Vodafone and ESB joint venture SIRO, a project aiming to provide Ireland with transformational broadband services). O’Sullivan, in...

Launched in October 2015, SKY Leasing has experienced tremendous growth, rising to a prominent position in both the Irish and US markets. Headquartered in Dublin, SKY strengthened its international development...

Leading the legal team since 2002, Catharine Ennis is chief legal officer and company secretary, since 2007, responsible for legal, compliance and human resources at SMBC Aviation Capital. The company...

Established in 1934, the Irish Smurfit Kappa Group has grown into one of the largest paper-based packaging companies in the world. At present the company operates a wide network of...

The Standard Chartered legal team in Ireland, which focuses solely on aviation finance, operates as a flat structure with three senior legal counsel based in Ireland who report into the...

The legal department at Storyful consists of two top quality lawyers, namely general counsel Emmet O’Grady and senior legal counsel Angeline O’Connell. The function was established by O’Grady in October...

Tesco’s legal function in Ireland is headed by Sarah Gallagher, who oversees a team of 15 individuals across legal, compliance and risk. She relates that the team has been undertaking...

The contracts office at Trinity College Dublin has a team of ten members and is led by the head of research contracts Mary Tracey, together with the deputy head of...

Damien Moynagh’s UDG Healthcare legal team is a forward-thinking and technologically literate one, with Moynagh listing adaptability with technology as among the primary characteristics he looks for in the team’s...

Founded in 1836 and currently part of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group, Ulster Bank has grown into one of Ireland’s “big four” commercial banks that serves over a...

Operating as a statutory corporation whose members are appointed by the Minister of Health, VHI Healthcare currently ranks as the largest health insurance company in Ireland. Its legal team is...

Peter McCarthy, legal director, leads a team of three lawyers and Roisin O’Reilly, his personal assistant, at the multi-national media giant, Virgin Media in Ireland. After the acquisition of both...

With nine lawyers and one company secretary, Vodafone Ireland’s in-house legal function has grown significantly in recent years, as the company continues to innovate in new markets and technologies. Supported...

Feidhlimidh Wrafter remains head of legal of Western Union Payment Services Ireland Limited (WUPSIL), Western Union’s principal European retail money transfer regulated entity, providing legal coverage of its corporate and...

David Dobbyn, senior director and regional counsel of EMEA and India, is the individual responsible for the company’s team in Ireland, consisting of himself and Lorraine Cannon-Lalor, legal counsel EMEA....

Customer service software producer Zendesk’s EMEA legal team is based in Dublin and headed by senior corporate counsel Rachel Tobin, and has been integral to some major successes by the...

Nicola O’Connell, general counsel Ireland, leads a team of ten lawyers and three non-lawyers based at Zurich’s business in Ireland. The Irish legal team continually adapts to changes within the...