Ms Julie Murphy-O'Connor > Matheson LLP > Cork, Ireland > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Julie Murphy-O'Connor

Work Department
Partner in Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department and Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Law Group
Position
Julie is a partner in Matheson’s Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. Julie regularly advises on fraud claims, freezing orders, injunctions, asset recovery and tracing, trust issues, directors’ duties and enforcement matters. Her practice includes high-stakes, complex Commercial Court disputes for international companies and financial institutions.
Julie was named Client Choice Award Winner for Asset Recovery (Ireland) in 2020. Julie is a strong advocate of alternative dispute resolution, which provides the means to resolve disputes in a cost-effective, time-efficient, confidential and creative manner. She is a Council member of the Irish Commercial Mediation Association. Julie is consistently ranked as one of Ireland’s top restructuring and insolvency lawyers by international legal directories. She was a council member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners from 2011 – 2014, acting as Secretary and as Chair of its Educational Sub-Committee during that period. Julie is co-author of the Commercial Litigation Association of Ireland’s Practitioners’ Guide to the Commercial Court in Ireland and of the Law Society of Ireland’s Insolvency Law text book. She is a frequent contributor to Irish and international legal publications and is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences. Julie is also a non-executive director of Coillte DAC.
Education
Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland; Academy of Private International Law, the Netherlands; Leiden University, the Netherlands (Erasmus); Trinity College Dublin (LLB).
Lawyer Rankings
Ireland > Insolvency and corporate restructuring
Matheson LLP has worked on many of the largest insolvencies and restructurings in Ireland of recent years. It is noted for domestic and cross-border insolvencies, examinerships, receiverships, restructurings and schemes of arrangement. Brendan Colgan has worked on a series of major cross-border restructurings, examinerships, liquidations and schemes of arrangement. Julie Murphy O’Connor is co-head of the commercial litigation group and noted for contentious insolvencies, while consultant Tony O’Grady is an eminent figure in the market. Kevin Gahan is a fast emerging talent, particularly in cross-border restructurings. Senior associate Kathryn Rice also impresses.
Ireland > Dispute resolution
(Leading partners)Matheson LLP has a stable and large team of dispute resolution specialists, remaining noted for its strength in financial services cases, along with regulatory enforcement and investigations for financial services businesses and large corporates. It has achieved further prominence in representing aircraft lessors in four of the six proceedings in Ireland relating to irrecoverable aircraft in Russia; it is the only firm in Ireland to act for more than one client in this headline case. The firm continues to make an impression in technology and data privacy disputes, and is at the forefront of media, motor industry and insurance coverage cases. Nicola Dunleavy
is a recognised leading figure in the market along with Julie Murphy O’Connor and regulatory investigations specialist Karen Reynolds, who also earn accolades. April McClements is noted for insurance coverage cases and Michael Byrne for TMT disputes, while Deirdre Crowley handles contentious data privacy, cyber and AI-related litigation.
Lawyer Rankings
- Dispute resolution Ireland
- Insolvency and corporate restructuring Ireland
- Leading partners Ireland > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Asset finance
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- EU and competition
- Fintech
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Insolvency and corporate restructuring
- Insurance
- Investment funds
- Media and entertainment
- Planning and environment
- Projects and PPP
- Public sector
- Real estate
- Tax
- Telecoms
- Transport