Arthur Cox

Environmental and Planning

Danielle is a partner and Head of the Environment and Planning Group and is a founder member of the firm’s Food and Agribusiness Group.

Danielle has a broad-based projects and infrastructure practice. She has more than 19 years’ projects experience in Ireland, advising on the full ‘life cycle’ of largescale project delivery; securing consents, financing, constructing and operating, and on all contentious and on-contentious planning and environmental issues.

She is a Board member of Wind Energy Ireland, a Council member of the Marine Renewables Industry Association and a member of the Environmental Policy Committee of IBEC. She is a member of the Net Zero Committee of Wind Energy Ireland. She sits on the Environment and Planning Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. She is also a member of the Energy Law Group of some 500 leading lawyers in the energy sector in Europe and Africa (Arthur Cox is the sole Irish representative law firm in this network).

She is ranked as a ‘Leading Individual’ in environmental and planning law and maintains an excellent reputation as one of Ireland’s top lawyers in this space and the leading lawyer in the renewables sector in particular.  She has been centrally involved in almost all of the largest, most complex and first-of-a kind infrastructure projects in Ireland for many years, particularly in the areas of energy, renewables, food and agriculture, telecoms, manufacturing, digital infrastructure, health and education.

Member of Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association (former Council Member) Member of Irish Environmental Law Association Member of International Project Management Association (IPMA) Member of the Executive Committee of the Energy Law Group, an association of leading independent energy law firms in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Council member of Wind Energy Ireland Council member of the Marine Renewables Industry Association

LL.B, 2004, Trinity College Dublin Diploma in Applied Finance Law, 2007, Law Society IPMA Certified Diploma in Project Management, 2011 Professional Certificate in Law on the Regulation of Food Safety (Distinction), 2013, University College Dublin Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 2008