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Arthur Cox’s team is ‘best in class’, say clients. In 2011, it was appointed to provide all legal services nationally to the Health Services Executive and was the first law firm in the world to advise on a sovereign bailout under the European Financial Stability Facility. Pat O’Brien has ‘a good tactical brain’.
ByrneWallace has one of the largest dedicated healthcare teams in the country and remains a leading adviser to the HSE, with Sinead Kearney the lead partner. Michelle Ní Longáin advises the HSE and various local authorities on employment matters.
McCann FitzGerald has a broad-based practice with particular strength in legal and statutory drafting services. Clients include Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg), Courts Service, and National Roads Authority. Michelle Doyle provides ‘first-class service’, and Sean Barton is recommended for his regulatory and governance expertise.
A&L Goodbody advises various government bodies including the Department of Finance on standard contracts for all public works and handling a number of contentious proceedings for the HSE. The team advised NAMA on the restructuring of a large property development portfolio owned by David Daly.
Mason Hayes & Curran’s large, dedicated team ‘gets to the essence of the issue’ for clients such as include ComReg, State Claims Agency and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Practice head Edward Gleeson, Ian O’Herlihy and Niall Michel are recommended.
Matheson Ormsby Prentice leverages its leading energy and dispute resolution practices to represent public sector clients such as Bord Gáis, Bord na Móna and the Commission for Energy Regulation. It also won a place on the Courts Service panel in 2011. Michael O’Connor leads the team.
Philip Lee’s new clients include Irish Sports Council, Shannon Foynes Port Company and An Bord Bia, and it continues to advise the HSE on various matters. Sarah Johnson heads this highly rated team.
William Fry is one of Ireland’s ‘most efficient and competent firms’, say clients. Its clients include ESB, Commission for Aviation Regulation, FAS, and IDA Ireland. Commercial litigator Carol Plunkett leads this multidisciplinary team, which includes 12 partners.
Niall O’Brien’s team at Beauchamps Solicitors won appointments to the panels of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the Health Information and Quality Authority.
Eugene F. Collins represents Coillte Teoranta, the European Commission, and the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland. Margaret Austin leads the team.
Eversheds represented the Financial Services Ombudsman in a number of contentious matters and advised Bord Gáis on a wind farm.
Hayes Solicitors’ expertise in the healthcare sector attracts a number of bodies including the State Claims Agency and the Medical Protection Society.
Well known for its expertise in public administrative law Holmes O’Malley Sexton acts for the Collector General, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, the Irish Greyhound Board, and University of Limerick.