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Arthur Cox Offices

10 EARLSFORT TERRACE
DUBLIN 2
D02 T380
Ireland
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Mr Richard Ryan

Work Department
Competition and Regulated Markets
Position
Richard is Head of the Competition and Regulated Markets Group. He is admitted to practice in Ireland and New York.
He advises on all aspects of EU and Irish competition / antitrust law including investigations and dawn raids by the European Commission and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission of Ireland (CCPC), competition litigation, merger control, competition aspects of commercial agreements and behaviour, EU State aid law, competition compliance programmes, leniency applications, complaints and sectoral studies by regulators. He has been involved in a large proportion of the leading antitrust, merger control, and State aid cases in Ireland over many years.
Career
Admitted to the New York State Bar in 2000 and as a solicitor in Ireland in 2003. Joined Arthur Cox in 2000.
Memberships
Member of Law Society of Ireland
Member of Irish Society for European Law
Member of Irish Centre for European Law
Member of Association of European Lawyers
Member of American Bar Association
Member of International Bar Association
Education
LLB (Trinity College Dublin) 1998; Diploma in Finance Law (Law Society of Ireland) 2003; Diploma in Economics for Competition Law (King’s College London) 2008.
Lawyer Rankings
Ireland > EU and competition
(Leading individuals)Arthur Cox has a fully rounded practice with an especially strong record in investigations, state aid and competition litigation. The firm remains at the forefront of merger control matters, including deals driven by private equity buyers. The firm has landed engagements in the vast majority of Ireland’s major competition investigations. Richard Ryan is head of competition and regulated markets at the firm, and has an outstanding reputation in state aid and competition investigations. He leads a team that represents an array of top domestic and international corporates. Patrick Horan is an emerging talent, as is senior associate Simon Breen.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Construction
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- EU and competition
- 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
- White-collar crime