Capital markets in Ireland

‘The team are very accessible and responsive and they are great at delivering practical and commercial advice on the tricky issues. Their experience and technical expertise is very impressive.’

‘They work hard to get to know you and build trust. They are knowledgeable, commercial and motivated.’

‘Collaborative approach to working with clients, good oversight of other legal firms when working with multiple parties.’

‘Strong commercial legal opinions and quick turn around times.’

‘Sinead O’Connor, Jack Sheehy and Peter Walker are always approachable and knowledgeable.’

‘One unique aspect of the firm is it employs a senior adviser, Eugenée Mulhern, who has over 20 years corporate finance experience. Eugenée is able to apply her detailed knowledge of the Listing Rules with her vast knowledge of precedent transactions over the past two decades.’

‘I worked primarily with Darran Nangle, partner. Darran was very responsive, very knowledgeable and very keen to assist. Eugenée Mulhern, senior adviser, assisted when a detailed knowledge of the listing rules was required. Eugenée was extremely thorough with her approach and gave very detailed advice.’

‘Technically but also commercially very experienced and very strong. Proactive, responsive, extremely pleasant to deal with, strategic thinkers and problem solvers. Value for money.’

‘Understand their immediate and connected client needs within the deal situations, and well versed in working alongside London Magic Circle firms harmoniously as well which is important for ultimate deal execution.’

‘Cormac Kissane is an experienced and talented partner and an excellent relationship manager. Aiden Small is very well-connected in the London market and popular with clients.’

‘Excellent subject matter experts, really ahead of impending developments in the area, practical and commercially astute’

‘Equity markets – Strength and depth of the team – the leading capital markets team in Ireland.’ 

‘Debt capital markets – the debt capital markets team are at the forefront of any developments within the Irish market. They have a notable wealth of knowledge of the capital markets space and the team are always well informed and responsive. The team always deliver a best in class service.’

‘Phil Cody and the team at Arthur Cox are extremely responsive and attentive. The advice is excellent and based on valuable experience on regulatory matters.’

‘Phil Cody is my go to lawyer in this team, he impresses everyone on the deal with his commercial approach and deep market knowledge while also being superb on technical issues.’

‘The team is very responsive and always delivers practical, commercial and reliable advice. All members of the team are extremely engaging and a pleasure to work with.’

‘The team are excellent all rounders and collaborators and their depth of technical expertise and experience is very impressive.’

‘The team are very responsive and accessible and very good collaborators. They build trust quickly. They identify the important issues and are excellent problem solvers.’

‘McCann’s team is responsive, thorough and excellent at providing technical legal advice in an easily digestible form. The team is thoroughly personable and a pleasure to work with.’

‘Quick to respond, good depth of knowledge on any issues we raise with them.’

‘Judith Lawless – always the brightest person in the room! Although clearly extremely intelligent, always explained complex concepts in easily understandable clear terms. Judith is an exceptional lawyer – really impressive both technically and commercially, in understanding the client’s business.’

‘Hugh Beattie is a real standout for me. He’s all over the detail and gives the big picture view, as and when needed. He’s a real pleasure to work with and someone I’d always like to team up with on a deal.’

‘Hugh Beattie has always made himself available to assist on any issues.’

‘I work with their CLO team and they have built a real niche in this area and are without doubt in the top tier of leading law firms in Ireland in terms of CLO expertise. They have the transactional expertise, coupled with the key tax expertise, and seamless integration with their listing and corporate services department. A winning one-stop shop for CLOs.’

‘Walkers has a leading Irish capital markets practice with particular strength in structured finance, including CLOs and insurance-linked securities, both of which I work on as transaction counsel.’

‘Andrew Traynor: Friendly and approachable. Work with him on many CLO and structured finance transactions for mutual clients. Have asked Andrew more than once for a ‘second opinion’ on Irish law issues that have arisen on other matters on which Walkers are not acting, because of his deep legal and wide market knowledge.’

‘Garry Ferguson – partner – expert in his field and solid partner on all aspects of CLO issues. Great person to deal with and fully engaged.’

‘Noeleen Ruddy and Paddy Rath are a great team of partners that work well together. Both are very attentive and pragmatic both on deal and off deal. Very clued into the market and collaborative with all deal parties.’

‘Paddy Rath, Andrew Traynor, Noeleen Ruddy, Ian Mcnamee are our main contacts. They are all top professionals who invest in relationships and build them over time. They also make it easy for their clients by being proactive with points and actively driving resolution while not resorting to aggressive practices common in the legal world.’

‘Noeleen Ruddy: Extremely knowledgeable and always solutions oriented. Gives advice before issues arise rather than only afterwards. Along with head of Dublin office Garry Ferguson leads Walkers market-leading insurance-linked securities practice.’

‘We worked with Matt Hedigan and Michael Caulfield. Both had an excellent understanding of the particularities of a continental jurisdiction such as Greece and their drafting in the Irish law documents of the transaction was also very clear. They were available at short notice most of the time.’

‘William Fry’s coverage is more coordinated and proactive than our prior legal advisors. The ability to access a top class slate across multiple fields is very helpful.’

‘Mark Talbot is precise, commercial and frequently displays an understanding of our business and transactions that is beyond counterparties’ expectations. I have yet to come across better Irish corporate/capital markets legal advice.’

‘We have worked with the same team of three for over two years now. Part of the team is a partner, a senior associate and a senior consultant. The combination of those three individuals gives us a wide range of knowledge for our multi-issuance platform.’

‘Great work, very efficient, and very available, even at the last minute. We really appreciate working with Dillon Eustace in Ireland.’

‘Efficient and friendly professionals who never fail to deliver a high standard of service.’

‘Conor Kiernan is super efficient, very professional and knows very well the funds practice in Ireland. Conor Keaveny is also very available when we need.’

‘Dillon Eustace employees are go-getters, they go out of their way to give the highest level of service to their clients. Special mention to John-Hugh Colleran.’

‘The team is deep and has a longstanding experience in all areas of capital markets including particularly European CLOs. They have a great US CLO practice out of Cayman and their Dublin office complements this well for the European CLO practice. Outside of CLOs, where they are pre-eminent, they have an excellent general structured finance and financing practice.’

‘We work with Stephen McLoughlin and Cal Kennedy. Both are excellent, extremely responsive and know both the technical law and their markets extremely well. They are great fun to deal with and don’t take silly points, having an excellent judgement as to what is important on a deal that comes from seeing such a large swathe of their market.’

‘They are prompt, responsive, a delight to interact with, extremely reasonable in their fees, highly knowledgeable, and ready to chisel advice to fully correspond to the client’s needs.’

‘A very client centric firm. Distinguished itself with an excellent understanding of and ability to influence legislative change as well as a strong understanding of and linkage to the policy formation process at a national level.’

‘MHC’s capital markets practice brings the perfect balance of managing the important legal matters of a transaction or a programme, with the commercial objectives of each of the parties involved. MHC is able to bring the relevant expertise to cover legal, tax, structuring and other issues. MHC can cover as well any international queries and support as needed.

‘Regarding innovation, I believe MHC has always been willing and able to adapt and even pioneer in the work we do within capital markets. They are readily available to think outside the box and implement technology to make our capital market processes most efficient, which is crucial to us since we have a volume business.’

‘MHC is a pleasure to work with. All team members are extremely helpful and very quick in replying to any questions/matters raised. Everybody in MHC is very kind and willing to assist. Their knowledge in the field of Capital Markets is deep and there is a great collaboration amongst the team members.’

‘Daragh O’ Shea – he is simply the ‘dream’ of a General Counsel who wishes to have someone of his caliber to trust on every count – time and availability, reliability of judgement, quality of deliverables, utter trustworthiness, and complete value for most reasonable fees.’

‘In terms of individuals, Daragh O’Shea has been a great and commercial partner to work with. Marc Wilkinson is a stand out associate and works extremely hard to maintain a high standard and to take a collaborative and commercial approach to working with us. Samuel Monteith is another associate that puts a great deal of effort and thought into his daily work.’

‘All team members of MHC provide high quality service. I would distinguish Samuel Monteith and Eoin Traynor. I am always impressed by their detailed and prompt responses to any question that either parties or us might have in the transactions we work with them. They will deal with everything (comments on the docs, billing queries etc.) in an effective and prompt way.’

‘BW knows our business and retains a great deal of ‘corporate memory’ of our company and its transactions over the years. It is sensitive to costs and timing of payment which is a great benefit to us.’

‘Competent and prompt service. Client friendly approach.’

‘The team has a very good grasp of the commercial and legal intricacies of structured finance vehicles.‘

‘The team has an excellent overview over complex investment structures and they are able to deliver both useful legal and practical advices. The team stands out by being better than their competitors to understand both the practical and commercial challenges in the specific investments.‘

‘We have worked with the DLA Piper team in multiple jurisdictions on a variety of transactions. They stand out in providing seamless services between their offices with a main contact point. Very knowledgeable partners, open to be contacted and can escalate if certain matters need to be resolved.‘

‘Matt Cole is an excellent lawyer and a large personality.‘

‘Conor Houlihan stands out as a very seasoned lawyer with a broad knowledge base, commercial sense, eye for details, and a good sense for finding the weak links in the legal arguments of counterparties in contract negotiations.

‘Elaine Cummins is thorough and detailed in her analysis and with a a commercial view for suggesting what is needed or nice to push for in tricky documentation work.‘

‘Excellent client focus, extensive expertise and knowledge.’

‘Super smart, understand the problem and have the solution readily available.’

‘Personal service, nothing is too much trouble, really friendly to deal with and prioritise the important stuff well.’

‘Solid knowledge of and document drafting for Irish based investment funds.’

‘Practical business solutions.’

‘The team at LK Shields has a good hands-on approach, it provides practical solutions for transactional queries and is responsive when needed.’

‘David Williams; Trevor Dolan, and Garry Wynne: Always accessible, and deliver on commitments at all times.’

‘Garry Wynne is very knowledgeable when it comes to the capital markets transactions. He goes above and beyond to ensure the client is satisfied and to advise the clients in terms of legal structuring of transactions.’