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Maples Group

Maples Group

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Ireland

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Employment

Maples Group provides comprehensive employment law advice, with expertise spanning high-stakes contentious matters, strategic advisory work, and TUPE-related issues. The team is led by Karen Killalea, who advises on a wide range of topics, including employment contracts, gender pay gap reporting, sensitive workplace investigations, and employee privacy concerns. Ciara Ní Longaigh is also a key contact, known for her work on unfair dismissal claims, disciplinary and grievance processes, and bullying allegations.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team are responsive and quickly gets a sense of the urgency of any requests for advice. They understand the risk profile of our company and position their recommendations based on that knowledge. And, they're nice people to work with!’
  • ‘Maples stands out for its genuinely client-centred approach and the depth of expertise each team member brings that we have interacted with.'
  • ‘Karen Killalea is incredibly responsive, detailed, pragmatic and commercial. She has taken the time to understand our business, our commercial drivers, and our risk profile, and applies that understanding to the guidance and advice she provides. She communicates incredibly clearly and crisply in writing and in person.’
  • ‘Excellent team providing top quality, commercially helpful advice.’
  • ‘Our experience with Maples has been excellent. They combine deep technical expertise with practical, commercially minded advice. Their team is consistently responsive, thorough, and proactive in anticipating potential issues before they become problems.’
  • ‘Responsiveness and availability, even under time pressure. Clarity of advice, with complex legal issues explained in plain, actionable terms. A proactive approach, ensuring we are protected and positioned well ahead of key decisions.'

Key clients

  • Advanced Manufacturing Control Systems Limited
  • Shine Analytics Limited
  • Applied Materials Inc.

Work highlights

Acted as lead counsel to technology company Shine Analytics Limited on its recent acquisition by Wolters Kluwer for €425m.
Advised AMCS on its acquisitions of Selected Interventions and Mandalay Technologies.
Advised Partsol on the establishment of its EU headquarters in Dublin.
Practice head

Karen Killalea

Other key lawyers

Ciara Ní Longaigh

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