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Elaine McGrath

Elaine McGrath

Work Department

Commercial and Business Law Department

Position

Partner & Head of Commercial and Business Law Department

Career

Expertise 

  • Corporate Transactions

  • Partnership Law

  • Commercial Contracting

  • Intellectual Property

Experience

  • Joined Reddy Charlton in 2004 and is a partner in the commercial law team

  • Advises in all aspect of commercial and business law 

  • Recently acted in the sale of an Irish technology company which was acquired by the US leader the sector

  • Recently acted in the acquisition of an oil distribution company for a client

  • Acts for a large US venture capital firm in relation to its Irish investments which to date have numbered in excess of 40 transactions

  • Advises one of the country’s leading waste management companies in relation to both their customer and supplier contracts

  • Advises one of the country’s leading giftware manufactures in relation to its IP matters including franchising, licensing, digital asset management, trademark and design protection and enforcement 

  • Has lectured on various topics of commercial and intellectual property law

Recent Work Highlights  

  • Acting in the sale of multiple veterinary practices including Riverview Veterinary Group on its sale to Vet Partners;

  • Advising Bright Motor Group on the acquisition of the retail business of Gowan Motors;

  • Advising a number of accountancy practices in relation to mergers including PKF O’Connor Leddy & Holmes Limited accountancy and tax advisory firm on its recent sale to Azets;

  • Advising a number of solicitors practices in relation to their partnership agreements and succession planning; and

  • Advising Digital Rehabilitation Limited in relation to a seed funding round of circa €2million;

  • Advising GAA in relation to its contractual arrangements with NFL for the staging of an NFL game at Croke Park

Publications

  • Co-author of the chapter on consumer law in the Law Society Business Law Manual, Oxford University Press

  • Click here to read a series of articles by Elaine McGrath

Languages

English, French

Education

  • Degree in Law & European Studies from University of Limerick

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Business & IT from Dublin Business School

  • Diploma in Legal French from the Law Society  

  • Registered as a European trademark attorney since 2008 

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