Head of employment, Patrick Walshe, was pleased to contribute the Ireland chapter of Multilaw’s “How to Hire and Fire: A Global Guide 2021”. This guide has been put together by international employment law experts from over 55 countries to assist in answering cross-border employment law questions. The Ireland chapter can be viewed on the Multilaw […]

This year marks 10 years since the MUDs Act came into operation.  The MUDs Act introduced a limited statutory regime to manage multi-unit developments and regulate the ownership and management of common areas for the benefit of all residents through an Owners’ Management Company (“OMC”).  An OMC is defined in the Act as “a company […]

Irish solar PV developer Power Capital Renewable Energy (PCRE) has acquired a majority stake in 400 MW of projects under development by Irish firm Terra Solar. PCRE intends to complete development of the solar farms located in counties Cork and Wexford in partnership with Terra over the next five years. The deal takes PCRE’s total […]

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (“DPER”) recently published a request for tender (“RFT”) for the establishment of a framework of external experts to undertake an external assurance and review process (“EAP”) on major public investment projects. The EAP will be utilised for major infrastructure projects estimated to cost in excess of €100 million. […]

Biopharmaceutical company Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics has completed its acquisition of engineered cellular medicine company Novellus Therapeutics Limited. This acquisition advances Brooklyn’s evolution into a platform company with a pipeline of next-generation engineered cellular, gene editing and cytokine programs. Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics acquired Novellus for $125m which consisted of $23 million in cash and 7,022,230 shares of Brooklyn […]

Corporate partner Eoghan Doyle was pleased to contribute a practice note to Thomson Reuters Practical Law on structuring and drafting a completion accounts and a locked box mechanism in the context of a share or asset purchase transaction in Ireland. Full practice note available here.   Reproduced from Practical Law with the permission of the […]

The highly anticipated Supreme Court decision in NECI v The Labour Court, The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Ireland and The Attorney General[1] was delivered on 18 June 2021. We have set out below the background to this case, a summary of the High Court and Supreme Court decisions and the implications of the […]

Irish specialist software integration firm, SL Controls, has been acquired by NNIT Group, a leading Danish supplier of IT services to the global life sciences industry. The acquisition of SL Controls will further strengthen NNIT’s solutions within production IT and will provide SL Controls new opportunities to continue its growth globally. The deal represents an […]

As published in The Business Post, June 27 2021. The courts and statutory tribunals tend to take a zero-tolerance approach to any infringement of an employee’s rights in this situation. Maternity leave is very much in the news right now. For the first time in the history of the state, a serving cabinet minister has […]

Partner and head of EU, Competition and State Aid, Ronan Dunne, joined Gavin McLoughlin on Sunday’s Taking Stock show to discuss the latest competition law/antitrust developments concerning Big Tech in the EU and USA. Listen back to Ronan’s interview here.