• Energy
• Financial Services

• Real Estate and Development Finance
• NPLs
• Restructuring and Distressed Assets
• Structured Finance and Securitisation
• Infrastructure, Energy and Environment

Micheál advises the following:

• Financial institutions
• Funds
• Corporates
• Private equity on real estate finance
• Syndicated credit facilities
• Tax driven financing structures
• Acquisition finance
• Development, construction and project finance

Authorships

• Chambers Global Practice Guide – Banking and Finance – Ireland Chapter 2018
• "Society of Young Solicitors Ireland - Scholars, Youth & Success Since 1965" (Co-Editor)
• Contributor to The World Bank/International Finance Corporation's "Doing Business" Series
• University College Cork’s Cork Online Law Review (Editorial Committee)

Engagements

• Micheál has spoken at conferences organised by the American Bar Association (Section of International Law), UKTI, British Irish Chamber of Commerce, Society of Young Solicitors Ireland, Dublin Solicitors Bar Association and AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers)
• Micheál has lectured on the Irish Law Society’s Certificate of Banking Law and Practice course

Education

• Law Society of Ireland, Blackhall Place (Solicitor)
• University College Cork (LLM)
• University College Cork and St Louis University School of Law (BCL (Intl))

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ireland
• Solicitor of the Senior Courts, England and Wales
• British and Irish Chamber of Commerce (Council Member and former director)
• International Bar Association
• Society of Young Solicitors Ireland (Past Chair)
• Ireland Network Great Britain (Past Chair)

• • Advised a major European bank on its acquisition of DEPFA BANK plc, and its subsidiary DEPFA ACS Bank DAC, from Germany’s FMS Wertmanagement AöR. DEPFA Group.
  • Advised EdgeConneX, a leading US co-location data centre provider in relation to the acquisition, construction, financing of a significant data centre campus in Dublin.
  • Advised Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. on the Project Bay loan portfolio sale, involving in excess of 2,300 individual assets.
  • Advised Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. and HSBC plc in respect of the restructure of facilities advanced to a leading Irish manufacturer and secured over assets located in the UK, Europe, the US and the Channel Islands.
  • Advised Permanent tsb on the €2.1bn Project Glas loan portfolio sale, the largest non-performing sale of its kind in the Irish market.
  • Advised an international investment bank on the re-financing of the acquisition by a US private equity fund of an Irish development finance focussed direct lending platform.
  • Advised a large US private equity fund with respect to the acquisition and financing of a number of high profile loan portfolios (performing, non-performing, secured and unsecured) in Ireland, Northern Ireland and across Europe (using Irish structures).
  • Advised Goldman Sachs Asset Management in respect of its investment in the €900m Fairfield Real Estate Finance backed development finance platform Initiative Ireland, which aims to finance the construction of 7,500 private, social and affordable homes in Ireland. This deal was recognised as one of Finance Dublin’s Deals of the Year for 2022.
  • Advised Citibank on behalf of a syndicated lending group who recently provided financing to IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC (a subsidiary of Alleghany Capital) in order to fund their acquisition of Irish company, Anchorbuoy Limited and the Linesight group of companies.
  • Advising an alternative investor on its agreement to acquire, finance and structure its purchase of a Spanish non-performing loan portfolio
  • Advising an alternative investor on the acquisition of a portfolio of non-performing loans with a gross book value in excess of €2.3BN through an Irish securitisation platform
  • Advising a large European bank on its acquisition of an Irish mortgage provider and its entry into the Irish mortgage lending market
  • Advising a large European bank on its acquisition of a significant continental European consumer finance business (c.€5BN)