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Arthur Cox Offices
10 EARLSFORT TERRACE
DUBLIN 2
D02 T380
Ireland
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Laura Rafferty
Work Department
Environment and Planning
Position
Laura is Of Counsel in the Environment & Planning Group. Laura is a former Senior Associate and Barrister whose practice and experience covers all areas of environmental, planning, infrastructure, and health and safety law.
Laura has extensive experience across the full spectrum of Planning, Environmental and Health & Safety law and has played a key role in advising on some of the most complex and significant transactions and litigation over the last five years. She has a special focus on risk assessing major infrastructural, housing and energy projects. Laura regularly advises on contentious and non-contentious matters arising out of the pre-planning, planning, development and funding of projects with a regular focus on housing and renewables. She also has a particular specialism in the adversarial areas of planning judicial review, injunctive relief and criminal enforcement proceedings.
Education
- BCL (European), 2007, University College Dublin
- Barrister-at-Law degree, 2008, The Honourable Society of King’s Inn
- Called to the Bar of Ireland, 2008
- Called to the Bar of Northern Ireland, 2012
- Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 2015
- Member of the Law Society of Ireland
- Member of Irish Environmental Law Association
- Member of Health and Safety Lawyers of Ireland
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- EU and competition
- Fintech
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Information technology
- Insolvency and corporate restructuring
- Insurance
- Investment funds
- Media and entertainment
- Pensions and employee benefits
- Planning and environment
- Projects and PPP
- Public sector
- Real estate
- Tax
- Transport
- White-collar crime