Philip Lee LLP offers exceptional guidance to prominent residential developers, investors, public entities, and government agencies involved in PRS and social housing transactions. The practice also covers sales, acquisitions, and landlord-tenant issues across various sectors, including office spaces, healthcare, hospitality, leisure, and energy, with a key focus on the housing sector. John O’Donoghue heads up the department and has expertise in handling residential developments, further assisted by Elaine Whelan.
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Testimonials
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- ‘John O’Donoghue, Elaine Whelan, and their team work hard, meet deadlines, and ensure all our closings go smoothly. Good attention to detail and understanding of the property/transaction.’
- ‘Elaine Whelan is fantastic, very responsive, follows up and tracks all deadlines and pre and post-contract matters that need to be closed off. Great communication, always meets deadlines, organised, gets ahead of closings and completion checklists. She is commercial and practical in dealing with matters that arise during transactions. Very knowledgeable and solution-focused.’
- ‘They provide quality, educated advice to us at key commercial stages of the process. They know how to deliver and are commercially very strong within the property.’
- ‘The real estate team is led by John O'Donoghue. His simple, logical, relaxed but constructive approach is reflected in his team.’
- 'The people are easy to deal with, responsive, particularly at short notice, good market knowledge. Always willing to get the job done.'
- 'Very personable, always available and knowledgeable.'
Key clients
- O’Flynn Group
- Heygaz Biomethane
- Apleona Ireland Limited
- Housing Agency / Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
- Housing Commission
- Focus Property Investment ICAV
- Cairn Homes plc
- Corrib Oil Ireland Limited
- Power Capital Renewable Energy
- Galway City Council
- Great Northern Distillery
- Allied Irish Banks. p.l.c.
- Carysfort Capital/Angelo Gordon
- Power Capital Renewable Energy
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
John O’Donoghue