Established 1825
Tel: +353 1 232 2000
Email: dublin@matheson.com
Website: www.matheson.com
Contact: Tom Hayes, Partner and Head of Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department
Number of partners: 19
Languages: English
Practice Areas: • Banking and financial services • Capital markets • Commercial and transactions • Commercial arbitration • Competition/antitrust • Construction • Energy • Healthcare • Insolvency • Insurance • Intellectual property • International arbitration • Labour and employment • Pensions • Product liability • Public procurement • Real estate • Shipping • Supreme Court • Tax • Technology and telecommunications • White collar crime
Office Locations: Dublin, Cork, New York, London, Palo Alto, San Francisco
Established in 1825 in Dublin, Ireland and with offices in Cork, London, New York, Palo Alto and San Francisco, more than 670 people work across Matheson’s six offices, including 86 partners and tax principals and over 440 legal and tax professionals. Matheson services the legal needs of internationally focused companies and financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland. Our clients include over half of the world’s 50 largest banks, 7 of the world’s 10 largest asset managers, 7 of the top 10 global technology brands and we have advised the majority of the Fortune 100.
Our expertise is spread across more than 30 practice groups, including Finance and Capital Markets, Corporate, International Business, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology and Innovation, Intellectual Property, Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring, EU and Competition, Asset Management and Investment Funds, Employment, Pensions and Benefits, Commercial Real Estate, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Healthcare, Insurance, Tax, Private Client, Energy and Infrastructure, FinTech and Life Sciences. We work collaboratively across all areas, reinforcing a client first ethos among our people, and our broad and interconnected spread of industry and sectoral expertise allows us to provide the full range of legal advice and services to our clients.
Last updated 4th October 2018
Ireland
Matheson is a well-established Irish law firm with a special focus on insurance disputes, healthcare litigation and professional discipline disputes.
The firm’s commercial litigation and dispute resolution team is supported by 19 partners and over 100 lawyers. Bryan Dunne heads the commercial litigation department. Key names across the firm’s dispute resolution team include Sharon Daly, Nicola Dunleavy and Michael Byrne.
Matheson regularly represent clients in the financial institutions sector in Ireland and internationally. The firm advised Sky Ireland in a statutory appeal against the Commission for Communications Regulation.
The healthcare group at Matheson has three partners and eight lawyers dedicated to its cases and is headed by Rebecca Ryan. Tom Hayes is another key figure in the firm’s healthcare litigation department. The Healthcare Group at Matheson works on a cross-departmental basis and work with members from the firm’s employment, litigation and intellectual property groups. The healthcare group represent clients in regulatory investigations before Healthcare regulatory bodies.
During the research period, Geraldine Carr was promoted from senior associate to partner in the commercial litigation team.
Ireland
Commercial and Transactions
| Tier 1 |
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| A&L Goodbody |
| Arthur Cox |
| Mason Hayes & Curran |
| Matheson |
| McCann FitzGerald |
| William Fry |
| Tier 2 |
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| Beauchamps |
| Eugene F Collins |
| Maples and Calder |
Competition/Antitrust
| Tier 1 |
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| A&L Goodbody |
| Arthur Cox |
| Matheson |
| McCann FitzGerald |
| William Fry |
| Tier 2 |
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| Mason Hayes & Curran |
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| Beauchamps |
Intellectual Property
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| A&L Goodbody |
| McCann FitzGerald |
| William Fry |
| Tier 2 |
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| Arthur Cox |
| Matheson |
| Attorney | Ranking | Practice Area |
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| Byrne, Michael | Dispute Resolution Star | Commercial and Transactions, Intellectual Property, Product Liability, White Collar Crime |
| Daly, Sharon | Dispute Resolution Star | Commercial and Transactions, Insurance |
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