Appointments

International law firm Addleshaw Goddard has announced the appointment of chartered accountant Cormac Doyle to head up its new tax practice in Ireland. Mr Doyle joins from accountancy firm Crowe Ireland and has more than 20 years' experience across aspects of tax, domestically and internationally. H

O'Flynn Exhams Solicitors LLP has welcomed solicitors Helen Cosgrave, Maggie Kelleher-Byrne and Ray Murphy to the firm. Ms Cosgrave, who joins the firm's commercial property department, has extensive experience in advising both corporate and private clients in relation to acquisition, financing, dev

Global law firm Eversheds Sutherland has appointed Lisa Boyd as partner in its procurement team in Belfast. Ms Boyd brings over 17 years of experience advising businesses and large organisations on all aspects of public procurement law and construction. The firm said the addition of a procurement pa

Arthur Cox managing partner Geoff Moore has been reappointed to serve a second four-year term. Mr Moore has served as the firm's managing partner since 2019 and as a partner since 2007. Prior to his current role, he served as co-head of the firm’s corporate/M&A group, specialising in merge

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Laura Herangi as a partner and head of the firm’s data solutions group. Ms Herangi has expertise in all areas of data retrieval and management. She primarily advises clients in the management of large-scale discovery projects, informati

Intellectual property law firm FRKelly has expanded its operations in Cork. The appointment of David Keane as partner in the Cork office highlights FRKelly's enduring investment in the region. He brings a wealth of IP experience from roles in both in-house and law firm roles.

Dublin law firm Whitney Moore has announced the appointment of two new joint managing partners. Emma Richmond and Cillian Balfe will succeed John Lynch from January 2024.

Gemma Freeman, a restructuring & insolvency partner, based in Dentons' Dublin office has been appointed to the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) board as its European regional director for 2024. For over 30 years, IWIRC has been connecting restructuring,

UCD Sutherland School of Law has welcomed Dagmar Schiek to the faculty as full professor of EU law and labour law. Professor Schiek joins UCD from University College Cork, where she held the Synnott Family Chair in EU law and directed the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence EU Integration and Citizens&

John Fuller has been elected as president of the Southern Law Association (SLA). Mr Fuller, a partner in the corporate and commercial department of J.W. O'Donovan LLP in Cork, succeeds Emma Meagher Neville, who he supported as vice-president over the past year.

ByrneWallace has appointed Orla Riddell as a partner in the firm's tax team. Ms Riddell is a dual-qualified solicitor and tax advisor specialising in corporation tax and works across a broad range of industry sectors. She has several years’ experience advising clients on all aspects of taxatio

Solicitor Kevin O'Keeffe has been appointed to the board of directors of Dyspraxia/DCD Ireland. Mr O'Keeffe is a solicitor in the debt recovery and mortgage litigation team at Lavelle Partners LLP, where he works principally on behalf of banking clients.

A&L Goodbody has appointed four new partners across its Dublin, Belfast and London offices as well as a new of counsel in Dublin. The new Dublin partners are Chris Bergin in the asset management and investment funds team and Aideen Burke in the commercial and technology team, while James Flanaga

King's Inns student Norah O'Brien has been elected as auditor of the Law Students' Debating Society of Ireland (LSDSI). A graduate of the University of Limerick, Ms O'Brien is studying on the modular barrister-at-law degree at the King's Inns while working as a judicial assistant to a High Court jud

William Fry partner and former managing partner Myra Garrett has been appointed to the board of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) for a five-year term. The NTMA is a State body which operates with a commercial remit to provide asset and liability management services to the government. I