Beauchamps LLP

EU & Procurement

Partner, EU and Procurement

Áine is a partner in our EU and Procurement team. Áine is qualified in Ireland and the UK and has over 18 years' experience working in the area of EU procurement law, having advised public sector and utility sector clients across Ireland, the UK, and internationally. Áine’s work entails advising on all aspects of the public procurement life-cycle, from project inception and scoping, to pre-OJEU market engagement, to advertisement and choice of process right through to contract award and standstill. She also advises on post-contract modifications, as well as assisting clients on challenge-proofing their processes. Áine has particular expertise in advising central government agencies, including the OGP and the NDFA, and clients operating in the utility and energy sectors.

Áine authored the chapters on public procurement in Ireland in recent editions of Getting the Deal Through and Chambers Global. She is a regular commentator on procurement law in the press and on social media and has contributed to the leading academic journal on procurement law, the Public Procurement Law Review, edited by Professor Sue Arrowsmith. An accomplished public speaker, she regularly provides training to clients and public sector organisations.

Prior to training as a solicitor, Áine was an academic and university lecturer in French, working in universities in the UK and France, and has a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast.

• Member of the Law Society of Ireland

• Member of the Law Society of Northern Ireland

• Member of the UK Procurement Lawyers’ Association

• Member of the Irish Society of European Law

• Member of the Irish Centre of European Law

• Contributor to the Public Procurement Law Review edited by Professor Sue Arrowsmith

• BA Hons in French and Modern English (Trinity College Dublin, 1992)

• PhD in French (Queen's University Belfast, 2000)

• Postgrad Diploma in Law (with Distinction), (University of Northumbria, 2001)

• Diploma in Legal Practice (with Distinction), (University of Northumbria, 2002)

• Certificate in Commercial Contracts (Law Society of Ireland, 2016)