Ms Ashling Walsh > RDJ LLP > Cork, Ireland > Lawyer Profile

RDJ LLP
85 South Mall
T12 TP8D
Ireland
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Work Department

Insovency and Corporate Restructuring

Position

Ashling leads the Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring Team, practising across the areas of corporate, commercial and insolvency. She uses her extensive knowledge of Irish company law to significant advantage in advising clients on both sale and acquisition sides of distressed companies.

Ashling’s practice includes advising on all types of restructurings and insolvency law matters and has vast experience in advising insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, liquidators, examiners, receivers, debtors and distressed companies. She has many years of experience acting for financial institutions in the context of debt settlement arrangements and has advised in relation to a number of significant receiverships and liquidations. She also regularly advises on both examiners and petitioners with respect to the examinership regime.

Ashling is recognised as a leading lawyer for Insolvency in The Legal 500 and is a member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners (ISIP). She lectures on the Law Society PPC 2 Insolvency course and has presented at a number of external seminars on insolvency matters. She has also co-written two chapters of the most recent edition of the Law Society’s insolvency manual.

Career

Prior to joining Ronan Daly Jermyn, Ashling worked for several years with a leading international bank in Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre and qualified as a solicitor in January 2004. She practised for two-and-a-half years in the Financial Services Department of a leading Dublin firm, gaining expertise in general commercial law matters, with a particular emphasis on investment funds law.

Memberships

Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland.
Member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners.

Education

University College Cork (BCL)
University College Dublin (Diploma in Business Studies)
Law Society of Ireland (Diploma in Applied Finance)

Lawyer Rankings

Ireland > Insolvency and corporate restructuring

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.