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Eavan Saunders
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Office Managing Partner
Career
Eavan is the Managing Partner of our Dublin office and country head of Ireland, joining Dentons in January 2020. An outstanding international lawyer and market leader, she has over 20 years’ experience working as a top-flight corporate lawyer in the City of London and more recently in Dublin. Eavan has won numerous awards and accolades over that period.
Eavan is admitted as a solicitor in both Ireland, England and Wales, having previously worked in London for a significant part of her career as a Senior Corporate Partner at global firm Ashurst.
Eavan has worked for some of the most sophisticated clients across many sectors including financial investors, global multinationals and for domestic Irish founder owned and operated companies. Eavan has cemented her position as the pre-eminent private equity lawyer in Ireland having led on the biggest sponsor-led transactions in the Irish market. She also has extensive distressed investment experience, in addition to her transactional M&A practice and complex advisory mandates for public and private sector clients.
Memberships
Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland, 1997
Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2000
Education
University College Dublin, 1993, BCL, Honors
Lawyer Rankings
Ireland > Projects and PPP
(Firms to watch)The trio of Colm Ó hUiginn, Eavan Saunders, and Siobhan Carlin co-heads the project and PPP practice at Dentons Ireland LLP
, which acts for a diverse set of international and domestic clients on various projects.
Ireland > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Leading partners)Dentons Ireland LLP has made a considerable impact on the market, in part thanks to the presence of two senior figures in Dublin managing partner Eavan Saunders and head of corporate Shane O’Donnell. The two are at the forefront of cross-border M&A, private equity transactions and venture capital investments, and have been joined in Dublin by Garrett Hayes, a former partner at McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP in London. Since launching a Dublin office in 2020, the firm has already advised on a series of headline transactions, including a number of deals for the Irish Infrastructure Fund.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Ireland > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Commercial, corporate and M&A Ireland
- Firms to watch Ireland > Projects and PPP