Ms Catherine Dowling > ByrneWallace LLP > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile

ByrneWallace LLP’s intellectual property team boasts significant expertise in contentious IP matters, regularly representing clients in trade mark and copyright litigation before the Commercial Court. In addition to this, the team has an enviable non-contentious offering, advising both private and public sector clients on design protection, IP commercialisation, and due diligence. The practice is led by the duo of life sciences expert Colin Sainsbury and Mark O’Shaughnessy, who specialises in IP disputes. Victor Timon and Catherine Dowling are also recommended.

ByrneWallace LLP‘s practice acts for a broad range of public and private sector employers to assist with issues from the entire spectrum of pension law matters, including drafting and amending pension schemes, pensions regulatory and taxation applications. Practice head Liam Connellan has significant experience in assisting scheme trustees, pensioner associations and individuals with the pension aspects of M&A and corporate transactions, and disputes. Catherine Dowling and Aisling Brennan are key names of note within the team.

Managing partner Feargal Brennan heads up ByrneWallace LLP‘s corporate, commercial and M&A practice, which is well known for assisting life sciences, energy, food, hospitality, and technology sector clients. The team has been kept busy advising on headline life sciences deals and a wide range of cross-border M&A transactions. Colin Sainsbury and Catherine Dowling bring expertise in handling life sciences transactions, and Victor Timon focuses on technology deals. Gillian O’Shaughnessy has a solid track record in handling healthcare and energy transactions.

ByrneWallace LLP has a prestigious history in public sector health and social care. It has a large team that is highly rated for healthcare litigation. It has acted for clients in numerous landmark child protection and healthcare law cases over the years. It routinely handles a high volume of child protection cases on behalf of the state and represents clients in wide-ranging areas from data breaches to judicial review and investigations. In life sciences, the firm fields another sizeable team with senior and highly-specialised practitioners, covering M&A, financings, license agreements and joint-venture agreements, among other areas. Colin Sainsbury is hugely experienced and a leading figure in the life sciences area. Also immensely experienced, Sinéad Kearney SC leads the health and social care team and is an authority on child protection and childcare law. Olive Doyle is rated for mental health law and Eoghan Wallace is another prominent name in child protection and childcare law. Catherine Dowling is noted for life sciences transactions.