Mr Darryl Broderick > RDJ LLP > Cork, Ireland > Lawyer Profile

RDJ LLP has considerable strength in handling a wide range of legal issues for broadcasting, print, and digital media companies, offering contentious and non-contentious services. The team represents clients in defamation proceedings, acting for plaintiffs and media outlets, and regularly advises newspapers on challenging reporting restrictions. Darryl Broderick leads the contentious media team, bringing extensive experience in managing reputation management and other media-related disputes before the Irish courts. Diarmaid Gavin heads the non-contentious media team, providing advice on media mergers, advertising compliance, content acquisition and licensing, data protection, and advertising law.

RDJ LLP has extensive experience in representing financial institutions in connection with borrower default and in advising companies in financial distress. Its broad client base encompasses financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, companies, directors and creditors. The firm has background in both domestic and cross border insolvencies and restructurings. It has remained active in examinerships and liquidations, along with SCARPs. Ashling Walsh heads the insolvency and corporate restructuring team, and has a background in advising financial institutions on debt settlement arrangements, bankruptcy arrangements and enforcement actions. Darryl Broderick and Michael Quinlan are also key partners.

The team at RDJ LLP handles an array of intellectual property matters for its broad client base, including the acquisition and commercialisation of intellectual property in Ireland. The non-contentious IP practice is headed by Diarmaid Gavin, a seasoned expert in knowledge transfer, collaborative research, and IP licensing, while the contentious IP practice is led by Darryl Broderick, a litigation specialist with a focus on media and intellectual property disputes.

RDJ LLP has made considerable progress in recent years, representing clients in a multitude of headline commercial cases, while remaining a force in professional negligence and aviation disputes. Data protection, insurance, contract disputes, judicial review, shareholder disputes, construction and healthcare cases are also areas of particular specialism. The firm continued to act for Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers in the headline cross-border proceedings before the Irish High Court, initiated by six Irish based aircraft lessors which had aircraft on lease to Russian airlines at the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Jamie Olden has an outstanding reputation for professional negligence cases, while Richard Martin is also highly rated. Ronan Geary heads the commercial litigation team and is noted for contract disputes and judicial review. Darryl Broderick is rated for TMT disputes, Ricky Kelly for cyber security incidents and Marianne Lonergan for a variety of contentious matters.