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Addleshaw Goddard Offices
TEMPLE CHAMBERS
3 BURLINGTON ROAD
DUBLIN 4
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Doug Smith
Work Department
Restructuring
Position
Doug Smith is a Partner and head of the Firm’s Corporate Restructuring Group. He has a broad range of experience in the area of commercial law and specialist knowledge of corporate restructuring law and insolvency law. He represents companies in financial difficulty, creditors of companies in financial difficulty, insolvency/restructuring office holders and the executives of companies in financial difficulty. He is involved in most of the significant Irish restructuring and insolvency cases in one capacity or another. He has also been involved in cross-border restructurings and insolvencies.
Education
Admitted as a solicitor in 1997
B.A. (1990) & LL. B (1993) University College, Galway
Lawyer Rankings
Ireland > Insolvency and corporate restructuring
(Hall of Fame)Addleshaw Goddard has a dedicated corporate recovery group, led by the highly-rated Doug Smith. It has made a further impact in cross-border schemes of arrangement, alongside its traditional diet of examinerships, liquidations, receiverships and bankruptcies. It represents most of the accountants that undertake insolvency engagements in the Irish market and acts for many of the banks that operate in the non-performing loan portfolios field. Personal bankruptcy is another forte. Legal director Jonathan Lynch is another senior member of the team. Terry Leggett has retired.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Ireland > Insolvency and corporate restructuring
- Insolvency and corporate restructuring Ireland
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Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Information technology
- Insolvency and corporate restructuring
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Construction
- Data privacy and data protection
- Energy and natural resources
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Planning and environment
- Public sector
- Intellectual property