• Company Law
• Corporate Governance

Education

• Newcastle University , BA (Hons)
• Manchester Metropolitan University, PGDL, LPC

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ireland
• Law Society of England and Wales

• • Acted as lead counsel and project manager managing the implementation of a corporate reorganisation a large global pharmaceutical multinational which included the coordination of the transfer of group subsidiaries in 17 jurisdictions
  • Assisted in the design and implementation of a post-acquisition group restructuring centred around the simultaneous domestic merger of 12 Irish companies using the domestic merger process and summary approval procedure provided in the Companies Act 2014
  • Lead the intergroup transfer of the internal financing function of a worldwide chemicals company from Belgium to Ireland
  • Provides assistance on discrete technical company law issues to identity or resolve questions of financial assistance, distributions and prohibited loans to directors
  • Advises State owned and quasi-State agencies in relation to their corporate governance, constitutions and adherence to the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies
  • Advised I-RES REIT on the implementation of a project over two years to revise and standardise the governance structures of 16 owner management companies that it controls. The scope of this project required the drafting of standard documents and the documenting of recommended processes so that the owner management companies became governed by constitutions with consistent terms and so that I-RES REIT could have certainty over the extent of its control of these companies at member and board levels. Continues to provide ongoing corporate governance advice to those OMCs.