Paul Keane > Reddy Charlton LLP > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile

Paul Keane

Work Department

Corporate Law Department

Position

Consultant

Career

Qualified as a solicitor in 1979.

Expertise in Corporate Law, Commercial transactions and Professional Discipline and Regulation

Recent Work Highlights 

• Sale of Odenberg Engineering to Tomra for consideration in excess of €50m 
• Restructuring major Irish group through examinership
• MBO of leading Irish professional services provider
• Guidance to corporates and individuals facing insolvency
• Negotiations of event contracts with anticipated attendance of several hundreds of thousands
• Advising sports governing bodies on corporate governance
• Advising on partnership and other arrangements for establishment of Irish operations for an international regulated professional services provider
• Advised on the floatation of Zutec on the Nasdaq stock exchange, the first Irish company to do so.

Papers

• Has lectured widely in Ireland and abroad including international conferences organised by the European Commission
• Has written or co-authored numerous articles, conference papers and contributions including chapters in:-
  • the International Taxation of E-Commerce, published by Kluwer
  • the Business Law Manual published by Oxford University Press

Publications
Click here to read a series of publications by Paul Keane

Committees and Appointments

• Immediate Past Chairman of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland
• Chairman, Task Force of the Law Society in Ireland on Legal Services Regulation Act
• Member of the Council of the Law Society of Ireland
• Served as nominee of the Law Society to the network of experts on contract law established by the Commission of the European Union as part of its project on European Contract Law
• Member of the Private Law Committee of the CCBE which is responsible for considering European Contract Law project
• Chairman of Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Ireland
• Non-executive Chairman of Newbridge Silverware

 

Honorary Consul General of Sweden

• Since 2010, the Honorary Consul General of Sweden 

Languages

English, Irish, French, Intermediate Swedish and Italian.

Memberships

Law Society of Ireland
Associate of the Institute of Taxation in Ireland
Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Education

• Primary degree in Law, Trinity College, Dublin 
• Masters Degree in Law, London School of Economics 
• Diplome en Franí§ais Juridique