David Heneghan > Addleshaw Goddard > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile

Addleshaw Goddard‘s employment group assists domestic and foreign clients with a range of individual and collective employment law matters, from day-to-day advice to major corporate transactions to complex employment investigations. The team regularly handles board-level disputes before the Supreme Court, High Court, Labour Court and WRC. Maura Connolly, who specialises in handling contentious and non-contentious employment law aspects, co-heads the practice with David Cantrell, who has vast expertise in assisting multinational employers with immigration issues. Key names within the practice include David Heneghan, who provides support on employment-related immigration matters, and Lorna Osborne, who focuses on pension law matters.

Addleshaw Goddard has dispute resolution at the heart of its Dublin practice, with a large team of senior, mid-ranking and junior lawyers. It represents a mix of domestic and international businesses and financial institutions, the latter group growing as a consequence of the Dublin office’s integration into the international firm. Public and state bodies are also part of the client base. Professional negligence, financial services disputes, media and broadcasting, product liability and personal injury, banking enforcement and regulatory cases form a large proportion of the practice. Ronan O’Neill remains a big name in the market, including in financial and regulatory cases. Caoilfhionn Ní Chuanacháin is a leading talent in financial services litigation, property cases and professional negligence. Department head Maura Connolly is noted for employment and regulatory disputes, while Paul Dempsey is rated for insolvency and debt recovery cases. David Heneghan was promoted to partner in 2023 and Terry Leggett has retired.