We are pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Conway as Partner within our real estate and planning department. Tom specialises in advising on investment and real estate finance, acting for national and international investment funds across a broad range of asset classes, pillar and US / UK banks, private equity investors and institutional landlords […]

Pictured receiving their awards (l-r): Environment and Climate Partner, Alice Whittaker, Managing Partner, Philip Lee, Corporate Associate, Sophie O’Connor and Property Partner, John O’Donoghue    We are pleased to announce that Philip Lee was awarded ‘Law Firm of the Year’ at the Irish Law Awards in June 2019.  Our property team was also recognised as […]

As published in The Irish Examiner, 10 June 2019.   Who’d be a politician? Despite being dubbed the most powerful woman in Brussels, Margrethe Vestager may soon be out of a job. Her five-year mandate as the EU’s Competition Commissioner comes to an end in October. Regardless of her high profile it seems unlikely that […]

Seventeen years after the seminal decision in SIAC Ltd v Mayo County Council 1 which established the test of ‘manifest error’, the Supreme Court has returned to examine the test by which a Court can review a public procurement process. Recently, Mr Justice Donal O’Donnell handed down a unanimous judgment in a procurement challenge brought by […]

Philip Lee, as founder and managing partner of the firm, has many accomplishments to his name. The most recent occurred during the June Bank Holiday weekend in Cognac, France where he won a Gold Medal in the European Fencing Championships.  The title win is a first ever for an Irishman. Philip, from Pembroke Fencing Club in […]

As published in the Sunday Business Post on June 2nd 2019: Brexit continues to dominate the headlines, and is likely to do so for the foreseeable future. It is significant for many facets of Irish society, but one interesting question arises in relation to Irish employment law. While exact statistics are obviously unavailable, it definitely […]

As published in The Irish Independent, May 18 2019. Shane Phelan and Caroline Crawford of The Irish Independent look at the EU probe into insurance cartel claims, featuring EU and Competition Partner Ronan Dunne. Article available here.

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As published by The Sunday Business Post, May 5th 2019. The first step to creating a restrictive covenant that will hold up in court is to ensure you actually need one. One of the most difficult issues in employment law is also one of the most relevant for employers.  That’s the question of whether it’s […]

As published in Gulf Times, May 1st 2019. Amid uncertainty about the future of London as a financial hub after the UK will have left the European Union – and particularly in case of a no-deal Brexit – Ireland readies to fill the gap that is likely to occur in Islamic finance for EU clients. […]