Practice Areas

Our Banking and Financial Service Teams act across a range of activities including acquisition and leveraged finance, asset finance, debt capital markets, project finance, transaction restructurings, refinancing, and legal assistance arising as a consequence of the establishment of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) in Ireland.  Our clients include a number of prominent domestic and international banks that are active in the areas of corporate and securities work, project and asset finance.  We are actively involved in providing legal assistance to a number of participating institutions in the NAMA process and NAMA directly.

Our experts are engaged to provide innovative and creative solutions to the complex legal issues and to project manage large portfolio review and restructurings for lenders and cross border corporate clients. The current difficult trading environment has created the need and the platform for clients to seek advice in the context of lenders managing their debt books and also for corporates seeking sophisticated restructuring advice. 

We are also active in the highly specialised areas of corporate acquisition and leveraged finance particularly for international private equity and corporate clients, global corporate restructuring aligned with corporate migration into Ireland.  The projects and renewable energy sector continues to be strong with both domestic and international lending institutions. 

Our practice group is diversified and continues to expand to deal with the range of clients and industry sectors which participate in the core business of lending to facilitate business growth and development in Ireland. Our experts, Partners and lawyers are well established and very experienced in the areas of project finance for energy and construction projects and refinancing; leveraged finance for corporate; and asset finance for large value aviation assets and to provide project management skills to large scale projects.

Recommendations:

Legal 500, Banking and Finance 2010
"Mason Hayes & Curran is recommended for 'first-class commercial advice' and 'speedy and professional responses'."

Which Lawyer? Practical Law Company, 2008.
The PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook, one of the leading guides for in-house counsel recently “highly recommended the firm within the ‘banking and finance’ category”. MH & C was the only firm in Ireland to be highly recommended within this category.

Chambers Europe - The World's Leading Lawyers, Chambers and Partners, 2008.
This “efficient and pragmatic” banking and finance team handles a range of financing matters, including acquisition, property, asset and aviation financing. The firm also enjoys a good profile in the project finance sector, particularly in the renewable energy sphere, and is increasing its focus on the funds and financial services sector. Clients praised the lawyers’ “speedy response times.” “They understand our needs and just get on with it,” said one interviewee.

If you feel that you would like to find out more about how the Financial Services team can assist you with your complex financial transactions please do not hesitate to contact one of the team members shown adjacent.

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Our People

• Christine O'Donovan
  Head of Department
  
• Daragh Bohan
  Partner
• Fionán Breathnach
  Partner
• Mark Browne
  Partner
• William Carmody
  Partner
• Michael Hanley
  Partner