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 is a transactional lawyer and 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. He has particular interest and expertise in the area of landlord and tenant law.

As John is both a chartered surveyor and a property specialist lawyer he has a unique understanding and market knowledge. Before becoming a lawyer John acquired a deep knowledge of property as an investment asset over ten years working as a senior asset manager with one of Ireland’s then largest banks. John was also a member of the property investment policy committee.

Areas of Expertise:

• Commercial real estate
• Retail real estate
• Loan portfolio acquisition and disposal
• 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; project 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.

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.