Our People

•  Law Society of Ireland
• Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
• The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Irish Property and Facility Managers Association
• Urban Land Institute
• British Council of Shopping Centres

John is a Partner in our Real Estate Department. He has extensive experience in the commercial real estate market acting for investors, state bodies, banks, occupiers and individuals.

John acts for a number of well-known retailers and leads our Retail Group – a client centred and sector focussed team of specialist lawyers familiar with the retail market and retail client needs.

As well as being a solicitor John is also a chartered surveyor and is a member of twenty years standing of both the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland. As a chartered surveyor he acquired specialist experience over ten years working as a senior asset manager  in Ireland’s property investment industry.  John was a member of the property investment policy committee of a major institutional investor.

Areas of Expertise:

• Commercial real estate
• Retail real estate
• Lettings
• Landlord and Tenant
• Lease re-gearing
• Fixed charge receiverships
• Portfolio and asset management
• Sales
• Acquisitions
• Developments

John regularly contributes to publications of relevance to his practice and presents to client, professional CPD and industry seminars.

Representative Matters:

• The Retail Group is the sole legal advisor to a number of large international retailers active in the Republic of Ireland; examples include acting:
• for a major international retailer in establishing its first Irish store;
• for a gents fashion chain (6 units opened in last eighteen months);
• for a children’s wear specialist retailer in its establishment in Republic of Ireland;
• in portfolio restructuring and lease re-gearing for a major international retailer;
• in current lettings and estate management for a specialist retail service provider;
• for the receiver in the disposal of leases in the Hughes & Hughes Bookshops receivership;
•  for the liquidator in the disposal of leases in the Budget Travel liquidation;
• John is the Real Estate lawyer to the Grangegorman Development Agency. The Agency is the statutory body responsible for the redevelopment of a 73 acre Dublin City Centre site as a campus for the Dublin Institute of Technology and a mental healthcare facility for the Health Service Executive. The projected build out value is €1.5 billion making it one of the largest urban regeneration projects in Europe
• Acted for a global social networking provider in its continued expansion in Dublin;
• Acted for a well-known IT hardware provider in taking substantial facilities in a South Dublin Business Park;
• Acting for a bank in on-going portfolio management matters;
•  John leads a Real Estate team in completing a significant due diligence and issue remediation for a bank in the transfer of loans to the
  National Asset Management Agency

Recommendations:

Chambers and Partners, Europe 2011.
John is recommended in the Real Estate category, where he is described as benefitting from “being a chartered surveyor as well as a skilled property lawyer, and he has a particularly strong retail practice.”

Chambers Europe - The World's Leading Lawyers, Chambers and Partners, 2010.
John is recommended as a Leader in his Field in the ‘Real Estate’ category.  ‘The five-partner team also includes John Minihane, whose “patience and determination are invaluable in getting deals over the finish line” according to sources.

Legal 500 – Real Estate, 2009.
John is recommended as “bolstering the property offering” of the Real Estate department.