Irish firm Byrne Wallace has appointed Central Bank of Ireland general counsel Joseph Gavin as head of its financial services practice. Gavin was also chief legal adviser to bank governor Patrick Honohan for five years, advising during the post-2008 Irish banking crisis in one of the most significant economic meltdowns of the recession in Europe. […]
A&L Goodbody was named European Firm of the Year at The Lawyer European Awards last night, becoming the first Irish firm to take home the top honour in the sixth edition of the Continent’s biggest legal awards. A&L Goodbody also picked up Irish Firm of the Year and European banking and finance deal of the […]
Irish firm Mason Hayes & Curran has reported a 25 per cent increase in turnover for 2014, with revenues rising to €60m (£43.7m) from €48m in 2013. Figures supplied for The Lawyer’s upcoming European 100 report shows that the firm added 67 staff on a full-time equivalent basis last year, with headcount rising from 333 FTE […]
McCann FitzGerald has been appointed as the adviser to Allied Irish Banks (AIB) on its proposed capital restructuring by the Irish government. The mandate follows news last week that fellow Irish firm William Fry had won the tender process to act for the government on the work (13 February 2015). The proposed restructuring could include […]
William Fry has emerged as the winner of the Irish Department of Finance’s tender to appoint a legal adviser to work on the potential capital restructuring of Ireland’s investments in Allied Irish Banks (AIB). The department carried out a mini tender competition earlier this month among the members of its legal advisory panel. That was […]
Irish firm Arthur Cox has appointed the general counsel of exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider Source, Adrian Mulryan, as a partner in its London funds team. Mulryan joined Source as its general counsel in 2009 from the Royal Bank of Scotland where he was head of retail issuance. He began his career at Irish firm LK […]
Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst, Dillon Eustace and William Fry have won key mandates advising on the £680m acquisition of the Jurys Inn hotel chain by US private equity group Lone Star. The hotel chain is being sold by the consortium of investors that currently owns it, including Oman Investment Fund, Mount Kellett Capital Management, […]
How was 2014 for Irish firms? And how is 2015 shaping up? Looking at elements such as workflow and financial performance, how would you say 2014 was for the firm? John Cronin, chairman, McCann FitzGerald: Very satisfactory. We’ve been recruiting record numbers: our trainee intake increased by over 40 per cent in 2014 and solicitor […]
The Irish legal scene is short of people after the downturn, with opportunities aplenty for lawyers with skills in the hot practice areas Ireland is once again a land of opportunity for lawyers looking for jobs as work picks up in Dublin, both cross-border and domestic. Firms are back on track in terms of recruitment, […]
Property prices are rising again and this time Ireland’s lawyers are confident it is no bubble, while talk of an early wind-up for Nama hints at austerity’s end Ireland’s ‘bad bank’, the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) was controversial when it was set up in December 2009, but just under four years down the line […]
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, alongside Irish heavyweights A&L Goodbody and Arthur Cox, are leading on the mammoth $42.9bn (£25.3bn) merger of medical technology giants Medtronic and Covidien. The transaction will see Medtronic buy Covidien for $42.9bn in cash and stock, with the merged entity relocating its corporate headquarters […]
Kennedys has formally merged with its Dublin associate office O’Hare O’Connor Walshe (OHOCW) to create Kennedys Ireland. It is Kennedys’ ninth international office and gives the firm seven additional partners in the Irish capital. Senior partner Nick Thomas commented: “The decision to take our relationship with OHOCW forward by establishing Kennedys Ireland at this time […]