A&L Goodbody

A&L Goodbody LLP has been ranked as the most attractive employer for Irish law students, pipping Arthur Cox and Matheson to the top spot. The annual ranking has been published by employer branding agency Universum as part of its Most Attractive Employers Index Ireland.

A&L Goodbody (ALG) has announced a new partnership with homelessness charity Simon Community NI. The leading homelessness charity in Northern Ireland, Simon Community NI offers specialist support services including homelessness prevention, accommodation services, health, well-being and practice

A&L Goodbody LLP has provided pro bono housing law support to more than 500 people since the launch of a unique partnership with Mercy Law Resource Centre and Focus Ireland five years ago. Established in 2018 with the help of the Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA), a project of legal rights gro

A&L Goodbody's Belfast office has raised over £16,000 for social enterprise and wellbeing charity Inspire over a three-year partnership which has just concluded. The corporate law firm paid tribute to the "hugely beneficial and inspiring" partnership, which also saw ALG's 140-strong team i

A&L Goodbody LLP (ALG) has been recertified for the prestigious Business Working Responsibly Mark for the third time. The Mark is Ireland's leading accreditation of responsible business practice in corporate Ireland. It is awarded by Business in the Community and is verified following an indepen

The Northern Ireland office of corporate law firm A&L Goodbody (ALG) has teamed up with RenewableNI to mark Earth Day 2023. Taking place annually on 22 April, Earth Day is widely recognised as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year, as a day

There remains some way to go before Ireland has fully implemented the Collective Redress Directive, writes Orla Clayton. Over the course of 2022, we reported on the key steps in Ireland's implementation journey in relation to the EU Collective Redress Directive (EU) 2020/1828 — from the public

A&L Goodbody LLP (ALG) has appointed nine new partners and three new of counsel across its Dublin and Belfast offices.

A&L Goodbody yesterday welcomed over 250 people to its inaugural "Future of Tech Regulation" event in Dublin, which brought together leading regulators and industry experts to discuss and explore the impact of new and incoming legislation at Irish and European level. Key speakers at the event in

Olivia Boyle, solicitor in A&L Goodbody's Belfast office, examines recent case law on sexual harassment in the workplace. Two recent cases relating to sexual harassment in the workplace have highlighted how vital it is that employers are live to this issue and, more specifically, that any allega

Enda Hurley, partner at A&L Goodbody, considers a recent English court decision on the validity of a notice to quit. The Court of Appeal (CoA) in England and Wales recently considered the validity of a notice to quit and held that a notice addressed to the wrong recipient was invalid. The court,

A&L Goodbody has appointed Robbie O'Driscoll as head of its London office. Mr O'Driscoll, a partner in the firm's finance group, is relocating from Dublin to London to take on the leadership role. He succeeds Stephen Carson, who returns to the Dublin office after leading the London office for fi

A&L Goodbody partner Dario Dagostino and solicitor Aisling Ennis provide an update on developments in crypto-asset compliance. In a recent judgment, the English High Court made a number of findings which, going forward, may provide significant assistance to victims of crypto-fraud in recuperatin

Arthur Cox and A&L Goodbody (ALG) were Ireland's top M&A advisers last year by deal value and count respectively. According to Mergermarket, Arthur Cox advised on 39 deals worth €14.4 billion in 2022 while ALG advised on 43 deals worth €9.1 billion.

A&L Goodbody's outgoing managing partner, Julian Yarr, has bid farewell to the firm with a message urging lawyers to come to grips with the potential of artificial intelligence. Mr Yarr yesterday completed his third and final term as the firm's managing partner, having served in the role for 12