Niamh Gibney > Reddy Charlton LLP > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile

Reddy Charlton LLP
12 FITZWILLIAM PLACE
DUBLIN 2
Ireland

Work Department

Commercial Department

Position

Partner & Registered Trade Mark Agent

Career

Expertise 

  • Corporate Transactions
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Intellectual Property
  • Insolvency, corporate restructuring and refinancing
  • Commercial Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Experience

  • Joined Reddy Charlton in 2013
  • Qualified as a Registered Trade Mark Attorney in 2014
  • Qualified as a Solicitor in 2016
  • Particular expertise in arbitration and mediation to include representing clients in the arbitration and mediation of shareholder disputes, breach of contract actions, construction disputes, and in property arbitrations relating to compulsory purchase and the acquisition of lands
  • Advises on all aspects of bankruptcy law, receiverships, court liquidations and creditors’ voluntary liquidations
  • Represents liquidators in restriction and disqualification applications
  • Acting for the petitioning creditor in court liquidations and bankruptcies
  • Particular expertise in advising on trademark and design registrations, infringement of trademarks, designs and patents, breach of copyright and passing off actions

Recent Work Highlights

  • Advised a client with significant property portfolio on large scale corporate re-structuring and re-financing programme
  • Advised shareholders of medium size retail business on sale of their shares(consideration in excess of €5m)
  • Regularly advises Official Assignee in Bankruptcy on all aspects of administrationof bankruptcy estates
  • Advising Newbridge Silverware, GAA and a number of small, medium and large enterprises on protection of their intellectual property
  • Advising the petitioning creditor in compulsory liquidation
  • Advising clients in multi-party mediations involving multiple sets of proceedings
  • Advising a PLC in property arbitration concerning compulsory purchase and acquisition of its lands

Publications

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Languages

English, Irish

Memberships

  • Dublin Solicitors Bar Association
  • Dublin Arbitration Forum
  • Adjudication Society
  • National Association of Women In Construction

Education

  • Bachelor of Civil Law, University College Dublin
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Arbitration, University College Dublin
  • Masters in Mediation and Conflict Intervention, National University of Ireland Maynooth
  • Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland
  • Registered Trade Mark Attorney, Irish Patents Office
  • Admitted to the roll of Solicitors in England and Wales in 2017

Lawyer Rankings

Ireland > Commercial, corporate and M&A

Reddy Charlton LLP counts sports sector matters as a key area of instruction, however the practice has seen an uptick in work involving asset deals and cross-border M&A. The team regularly acts for professional and amateur sporting associations, organisations and clubs, including the Gaelic Athletic Association, in a range of corporate and commercial matters. Elaine McGrath heads up the practice, which includes the ‘always approachableNiamh Gibney, who is ‘very knowledgeable in her field‘.