RDJ - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Associate, Cork Office
Aisling is an Associate in the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution department, specialising in insurance defence work, personal injury cases and material damage claims.
She has experience in all aspects of litigation procedure and practices in all Court jurisdictions. Aisling has a particular focus in the area of insurance fraud, defending fraudulent and exaggerated claims.
Outside of the firm, Aisling is a member of the Younger Members Committee of the Law Society of Ireland and a member of the Health and Safety Lawyers Association of Ireland Committee.
Education
B.A. Law and Accounting (University of Limerick)
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner, Cork Office
Aisling is a Partner, practising as part of the firm's Banking and Finance team. She advises several leading domestic and international banks, financial institutions and non-bank lenders in relation to bilateral and syndicated facilities. Aisling provides banking legal advice to some leading Irish corporates, property investors and developers.
Aisling advises on a broad range of banking-related matters. She has particular expertise advising on the finance elements of investment and development real estate transactions. She has also advised international entities on various consumer and regulatory issues in relation to the Irish lending market and has advised a number of Irish and international banks on their standard loan and security documentation. Aisling trained and spent over seven years practising with a top five Irish law firm. She was also selected for a secondment with the legal department of leading European bank.
Experience
Aisling's widespread experience includes:
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
- Senior Associate, Cork Office
Alan is a Senior Associate in the firm's Corporate and Commercial team. He has advised on aspects of commercial transactions in a variety of sectors, including for private equity firms, SMEs and large multinational entities engaging in multi-jurisdictional transactions.
Alan also has extensive experience advising employers and pension trustees on day-to-day commercial and pension issues including those involving large multi-employer pension schemes and cross-border pension schemes, both as an in-house and private practice lawyer. He has advised pension schemes in the legal sector, acting for both employers and trustees on high-profile investigations from the UK Pensions Regulator and the Irish Pensions Authority, and has regularly advised on specific pensions aspects of commercial transactions.
Education
University College Cork (BCLC)
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Company Secretarial Executive, Cork Office
Amy is part of RDJ's Corporate Governance & Compliance team. She has extensive experience assisting clients with a broad range of company secretarial services such as company registrations, annual returns, compliance filings and reports.
Amy ensures her clients are kept up to date on their obligations through regular bespoke corporate governance awareness training and briefings. Amy also facilitates clients with the updating of statutory registers using our governance software package, Diligent.
Amy also works with the Banking & Finance Team and provides support in connection with the team working on transactional banking, acquisition finance and real estate finance, mainly to the business banking units of the core banks, but also working on financing for alternative lenders.
Her duties and responsibilities include drafting security documents, closing lists, corporate supporting documentation and coordinating drawdown and distribution of funds - both in conjunction with other team members and working off her own initiative.
Education
University of Limerick (Exercise & Health Fitness)
University of Limerick (Health Related Exercise for Children Specialist)
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
- Solicitor, Cork Office
Annmarie is a solicitor in the firms Dispute Resolution team.
During her training with RDJ LLP, she worked closely with the commercial litigation team assisting on complex disputes involving construction and legal professionals. She has gained valuable experience handling defence litigation cases in the High Court (including the commercial court), Circuit Court and District Court, as well as consideration experience in alternative dispute resolution including multi-party mediations.
Education
National University of Ireland Maynooth (BCL Law and Economics)
Antoinette is a Partner, practising as part of the Employment law team. She brings practical and strategic legal advice to clients in a range of areas such as wrongful and unfair dismissal; discrimination; absenteeism and work-related stress; performance management; temporary and contingent workers; collective redundancies; restrictive covenants and severance agreements.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate, Dublin Office
Aoife is an Associate practising as part of the firm's Real Estate team. Aoife has experience working on a broad range of matters including advising clients on commercial property transactions and real estate financing. She also advises both landlords and tenants in respect of commercial leases.
Aoife acts for a wide range of clients including private clients, corporate bodies and property developers. In her role she has experience reviewing title documents and preparing reports for clients as prospective purchasers/lenders, reviewing and negotiating contracts for sale, commercial leases and loan documents and attending to property registrations.
Education
Bachelor of Law with Economics (BCL) - University College Dublin
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Solicitor
- Solicitor, Cork Office
Arabella practises in the firm's Corporate & Commercial Department. Having trained with RDJ, she has gained experience across all areas of corporate law, including mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, corporate governance and commercial contracts.
Arabella has acted for a wide range of clients including emerging companies, multinationals and private individuals.
Education
University College Cork (BCL)
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner, Cork Office
Ashling leads the Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring Team, practising across the areas of corporate, commercial and insolvency. She uses her extensive knowledge of Irish company law to significant advantage in advising clients on both sale and acquisition sides of distressed companies.
Ashling's practice includes advising on all types of restructurings and insolvency law matters and has vast experience in advising insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, liquidators, examiners, receivers, debtors and distressed companies. She has many years of experience acting for financial institutions in the context of debt settlement arrangements and has advised in relation to a number of significant receiverships and liquidations. She also regularly advises on both examiners and petitioners with respect to the examinership regime.
Ashling is recognised as a leading lawyer for Insolvency in Chambers Europe and The Legal 500 and is a member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners (ISIP). She lectures on the Law Society PPC 2 Insolvency course and has presented at a number of external seminars on insolvency matters. She has also co-written two chapters of the most recent edition of the Law Society's insolvency manual.
Education
University College Cork (BCL)
University College Dublin (Diploma in Business Studies)
Ashling Walsh focuses on making sure to provide clients with as much information as she can. She is exceptionally hard-working..
Ashling Walsh is a pragmatic and strong operator with very deep insolvency technical knowledge, excellent work ethic and market presence.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Partner
- Partner, Cork Office
Brendan is a Partner, practising as part of the firm's Banking and Finance team. He has experience advising in commercial property and banking acting both on behalf of banks but also on behalf of property developers, large companies, receivers, liquidators and examiners. Brendan specialises in all aspects of banking and finance, focusing on transactions in the areas of corporate lending, acquisition finance, asset financing, secured and unsecured lending, property finance, the restructuring/enforcement of loans and loan portfolio sales and purchases.
Brendan is a Past President of the Southern Law Association, a member of the Council of the Law Society for the last 12 years, a former chairman of a division of its Regulation of Practice Committee and current vice- chair of its Education Committee. He is recommended as a leading Banking and Finance lawyer in The Legal 500.
Experience
University College Cor k on multiple significant financing matters related to campus expansion, student accommodation and development of research centres as well as acquisition of additional sites required for the expansion of the university. Representative matters include advising
in connection with Guarantees being made available by UCC to Bank of Ireland to secure substantial overdrafts to entities controlled by UCC including IMI, Mardyke Leisure (UCC) DAC and Campus Accommodation (UCC) DAC.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner, Cork Office
Brendan is Head of RDJ's General Litigation and disputes practice. He has huge depth of expertise and breadth of knowledge in the area of defence litigation.
Brendan is a highly talented litigator who has gained considerable experience in dealing with the conduct of litigation and dispute resolution on behalf of insurance companies, municipal authorities and state bodies, in the area of motor, employer liability, public liability and products liability claims.
He also has specialist expertise in advising educational institutions and sporting bodies, in respect of internal disputes and disciplinary issues. Brendan has advised boards of major sporting bodies and boards of management on contentious matters.
Education
University College Cork (BComm)
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Associate, Galway Office
Brian is an Associate, practising as part of the firms Dispute Resolution team. He specialises in insurance defence litigation. Brian advises on public liability, road traffic accidents and employer's liability for global insurers and local authorities
Brian practiced in a leading law firm in the south west of Ireland for a number of years, specialising in insurance defence litigation, prior to joining RDJ.
Education
Limerick Institute of Technology BBS (Law and Taxation)
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Partner, Cork Office
Brian is a Partner, practising as part of the Dispute Resolution team. He has extensive experience in defence litigation, handling a diverse portfolio of cases primarily in the Circuit and High Court. Brian advises insurance companies and self-insured multinational companies in the area of personal injury litigation, product liability and material damage claims.
He has extensive experience in defending high value major loss claims in the High Court, dealing with a wide range of expert witnesses based both in Ireland and the UK in defending these claims.
Brian also has experience in defending fraudulent and exaggerated claims and dealing with Special Investigation Teams in various insurance companies.
Education
University College Cork (BCL)
Law Society of Ireland Certificate in Civil Litigation
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Partner, Dublin Office
Brian is a Partner, practising as part of the firm's Banking and Finance team. He advises both Irish and international financial institutions and borrowers in relation to a large range of domestic and cross-border corporate finance transactions including leveraged acquisition finance, development finance, debt restructuring and refinancing, senior and mezzanine financing and capital markets transactions. Brian strives to achieve the best outcome for his clients by partnering with them to find simple solutions to complex problems.
Before joining RDJ, Brian qualified into the banking and finance group of another top-tier Irish law firm in 2013, Brian spent a number of years working in the leveraged finance team of the London office of a leading US law firm before returning to Ireland.
Education
University College Dublin (Bachelor of Business and Law)
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Senior Associate
- Partner in Charge
- Partner in Charge, Dublin Office
Bryan is Partner-in-Charge of RDJ's Dublin office, practising across the areas of corporate, commercial and finance. Bryan brings years of transaction insights to our teams, having advised across jurisdictions on mergers, acquisitions, equity investments, restructurings and financings. Focused on bringing all areas of the deal to a close, Bryan delivers results with unrivalled commerciality.
Before joining RDJ, Bryan was Chief Legal Officer of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC). His pragmatic and practical steering of IBRC through change and uncertainty led to him being recognised by Legal Business as a Rising Star on its GC Power List and described as "very experienced and practical, with a truly in-depth knowledge of banking law and a good appreciation of the need for clear and prompt instructions". Bryan was also endorsed as "proving himself robust in steering IBRC through a very difficult period of change and uncertainty" and that "one of his resounding achievements has been his management of internal matters at the bank following the special liquidation of IBRC".
Bryan has been recognised as a leading lawyer by The Legal 500 for his work in multiple practice areas, including; Corporate and M&A, Commercial Law, Banking and Finance, and Information Technology. Clients recognise Bryan as a 'strategic legal thinker and commercially astute'
Carol is part of RDJ's Corporate Governance & Compliance team since 2006. She has extensive experience in providing a broad range of company secretarial services to clients which include company formations, annual compliance (Annual Returns and AGM documents), maintenance of statutory registers, CRO filings and RBO registrations.
Carol ensures that our clients are kept up to date on their obligations and made aware of their annual compliance and RBO deadlines. Carol also works with several other teams in RDJ including Corporate and Commercial, Tax, Banking and Property, assisting with CRO filings and the updating of statutory registers.
Prior to joining RDJ, Carol worked for 7 years in Ernst & Young, as part of the Company Secretarial team, providing company secretarial services to a wide range of clients.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
- Company Secretarial Executive
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner in Charge
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner in Charge
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- Company Secretarial Executive
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- Senior Associate
- Partner in Charge
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- Associate
- Senior Associate
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- Partner
- Chartered Tax Adviser
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- Partner
- Construction Consultant
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- Construction Consultant
- Partner in Charge
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Company Secretarial Executive