Walkers advises on fund finance, acquisition finance, commercial lending, and corporate finance mandates for a variety of clients. The team is jointly led by Andrew Traynor, who handles a wide range of complex cross-border finance, fund finance, structured finance, and derivatives transactions, and Noeleen Ruddy, who specialises in securitisations, CLOs, and debt offerings.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Everyone in this group at Walkers is extremely professional and proactive. They do a great job of communicating what they're working on, what they need from us, why they made certain changes in their drafts and what is occurring on our deals that we are not privy to.'
- ‘The lawyers at Walkers Ireland stand out for their professionalism, accountability, legal rigour and proactiveness.'
- ‘Super helpful, nothing too much trouble, good bandwidth.’
- ‘Noeleen Ruddy - very responsive and helpful, knows our mutual client really well, Paddy Rath, very helpful and commercial.’
- ‘Noeleen Ruddy is a standout partner. Has stood up an excellent team that has had to adapt to the high intensity/deal flow.’
- ‘The Walkers team are responsive and collaborative, with great expertise on Irish law matters.’
- ‘Ian McNamee and Karen O'Connell have been very helpful and great to work with.’
Practice head
Andrew Traynor; Noeleen Ruddy
Other key lawyers
Paddy Rath; Karen O'Connell; Ian McNamee