Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Mason Hayes & Curran is a business law firm with 80 partners and offices in Dublin, London, New York and San Francisco. Key areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, securities law, tax, financial services and litigation across a range of sectors, including energy, healthcare, technology, real estate and banking.

The firm: Mason Hayes & Curran gives clients a clear understanding of their options. This allows them to confidently make good, informed decisions. It works collaboratively and openly. This creates a shared perspective and builds trust so that solutions to clients’ issues are developed quickly together. The firm is versatile, recognising each client’s preferred way of working and responding to it. Its lawyers give more than quality technical advice. The advice is grounded in wisdom gained by combined experience. It is commercial and strategically informed. The firm delivers it quickly and clearly. This approach is how it makes a valuable and practical contribution to each client’s objectives.

Types of work undertaken: Mergers and acquisitions: the corporate team at Mason Hayes & Curran has extensive experience on M&A transactions and offers partner-led teams backed up by the full resources of specialist areas in the firm. The team can advise buyers or sellers of both private and public companies throughout the M&A process, including on corporate finance, leveraged transactions, minority acquisitions, group re-organisations and tax-driven restructurings.

Securities law: the firm’s privacy and data security practice provides world-class expertise and strategic advice on all issues surrounding data protection compliance. With a client base ranging from the world’s best-known data driven companies, to high potential start-ups and government institutions, the firm offers clients unparalleled global expertise coupled with detailed local knowledge.

Tax: Mason Hayes & Curran’s tax group provides an internationally experienced team of partners and professionals to provide innovative and leading edge tax services to its international corporate and individual client base. The firm’s service offering is focused on companies and individuals using Ireland as part of its global tax management strategy. It regularly works with tax counsel from overseas practices on mergers and acquisitions, redomiciliations, asset finance, debt capital markets, debt structures and investment funds.

Financial services: the firm’s banking and financial services teams act across a range of activities including acquisition and leveraged finance, asset finance, debt capital markets, project finance, transaction restructurings and refinancing. Its clients include a number of prominent domestic and international banks that are active in the areas of corporate and securities work, project and asset finance. Its experts are engaged to provide innovative and creative solutions to the complex legal issues and to project manage large portfolio review and restructurings for lenders and cross border corporate clients.

Litigation: The firm’s dispute resolution team is routinely involved in high value commercial court litigation for banks, multinationals and insurers. It is regularly retained by State agencies and public bodies and frequently act in international commercial litigation and insolvency related litigation. The team has specific knowledge and experience regarding disputes in the financial services, insurance, construction, professional malpractice, education, medical and public service sectors.