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As mergers, acquisitions and strategic representation arrangements have altered the Irish legal scene, the Big Four accountants haven’t been slow to see the opportunity to transform themselves from audit firms to multidisciplinary professional services operations. Having made their first foray

EY Law Ireland has appointed barrister and former tax appeals commissioner Conor Kennedy as head of its tax strategy and disputes practice. Mr Kennedy will provide EY clients with tax opinions on transactions and also advise on developing the optimum strategy to resolve Revenue-related queries.

Peter Bolger has joined EY Law Ireland as a partner and head of the firm's technology and commercial practice. Mr Bolger has more than 20 years' experience advising on all aspects of technology law, IP and commercial agreements.

EY's partners will vote on the firm's break-up after leaders approved the split at a meeting this week. Speculation of the big four firm's restructuring has been going on for some time as conflicts between the auditing business and advisory arm are thought to prevent greater growth.

EY Law Ireland has celebrated after coming in first in the Legal Challenge at the sixth annual Dragon at the Docks boat race. The legal practice, which launched just under a year ago, was among sponsors of the competition, which took place last Thursday.

Irish companies continued to attract near-record levels of M&A activity in the first four months of 2022, despite the challenging geopolitical and macro-economic global backdrop, according to data from EY Ireland. There were 60 Irish M&A deals with a combined value of almost $3.3 billion USD

In-house lawyers are worried about business leaders underestimating reputational and compliance risks around sustainability, according to a new study from EY Law and the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. Only 15 per cent of respondents to a survey of 1,000 general counsel and chief

Rob Haniver has joined EY Law Ireland as associate partner for technology and commercial law. Adding to the team’s existing expertise in real estate, employment and corporate M&A law, Mr Haniver's practice will focus on data protection, privacy and security, internet and consumer laws, eme

EY Law Ireland, which opened its doors last October, has announced plans to increase its headcount from 15 to 50 by 2025. The legal division of the accountancy giant currently has 200 lawyers in the UK and Ireland, but told Law.com that this could rise to 1,000 in the coming years.

EY Ireland has announced the launch of a new legal practice led by Alan Murphy, the former managing partner of Eversheds Sutherland Ireland. By launching EY Law Ireland, EY said it has become Ireland’s only global and multidisciplinary professional services firm to offer a law firm as an integ