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Matheson, in association with Trinity College Dublin (TCD), has named law student Niall Brennan as the 2020 winner of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship. The scholarship is open to second-year undergraduate law students at TCD who are either on the Higher Education Access Route (HE

Our fortnightly round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Arthur Cox and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised Phoenix Tower International on a major agreement with eir to own and operate wireless tower sites.

Major Irish law firms including Matheson, William Fry and Eversheds Sutherland are continuing to make strategic hires and welcome newly-qualified solicitors, trainees and interns in spite of the COVID-19 crisis, Irish Legal News can reveal. Top-level hires completed in recent weeks have included con

Matheson will welcome dozens of newly-qualified solicitors and student interns this summer in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, managing partner Michael Jackson has said. The firm has over 700 employees working from home and has been working hard to translate its in-person training and development pro

A round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. European law firm Fieldfisher has advised Simply Blue Energy on a joint venture agreement with Total to develop floating wind projects in the Welsh waters off the Celtic Sea.

Matheson has announced the appointment of four new partners, bringing the firm within touching distance of 100 partners. The appointment of David Jones, Kimberley Masuda, Susanne McMenamin and Philip Tully follows four other partner appointments in the past six months, namely David Fitzgibbon in Jan

A round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Eversheds Sutherland has advised London-based investment firm Blantyre Capital on its multi-million pound investment into UK and Ireland offsite construction specialist McAvoy Group.

Matheson has become the first organisation in Ireland to be awarded the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard by The Irish Centre for Diversity. The Gold Standard is awarded to organisations that can clearly show how diversity and inclusion form an integral part of their business.

A&L Goodbody has become the first law firm in Ireland with more than 300 practising solicitors, according to new figures. The firm, led by managing partner Julian Yarr, employed 313 solicitors with practising certificates (PCs) at the end of December 2019, according to yearly figures published b

Matheson has announced the appointment of David Fitzgibbon as a partner in the firm's corporate M&A team. Mr Fitzgibbon is an experienced M&A and capital markets lawyer, having advised on many of Ireland’s largest and most notable transactions.

A round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Fieldfisher Ireland recently advised aerospace and industrial engineering company TEAM Accessories Limited on a €5 million funding deal.

A round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Matheson recently acted as Irish legal and tax counsel, and Irish listing agent, to the securitisation of around 3,000 UK SME loans originated via Funding Circle.

Matheson partner Tara Doyle has been named "Legal Adviser of the Year" at the 2019 Women in Finance Awards Ireland. Ms Doyle, head of the firm's asset management and investment funds department, has won the award for the second consecutive year.

Matheson has announced the launch of a multi-disciplinary Digital Services Group tasked with deploying advanced digital technology and agile processes on complex and large-scale legal matters. The new group is led by Tom Connor and consists of 17 professionals, including lawyers, AI software develop

Financial services experts explored the Central Bank of Ireland's new Senior Executive Accountability Regime (SEAR) at a conference jointly hosted by Matheson and UCD Sutherland School of Law today.