RDJ - Key Persons


Aideen Farrelly

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Cork Office
  • Member of the Firm
Aideen is a member of the firm's Real Estate team and has experience working on a wide range of real estate transactions in relation to both residential and commercial property. She has acted for a variety of clients including banks and other financial institutions, receivers, property developers and private clients. Aideen also has experience in advising on commercial leasing and other landlord and tenant matters. In her role, Aideen has responsibility for managing both acquisitions and property sales. Some of her experience includes reviewing deeds and other documents of title, advising on title issues, reviewing and drafting security documentation, advising on planning matters, property registrations, and the drafting and negotiating of contracts for sale. Education Bachelor of Law (L.L.B) - Trinity College Dublin

Aisling Barry

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor
  • Senior Associate, Dublin Office
Aisling is a Senior Associate on the Real Estate team. She advises on all aspects of property law, with a particular focus on residential developments. She has experience advising a wide variety of clients including telecommunication companies, pension funds and receivers in the acquisition and disposal of commercial and residential properties. Aisling has advised landlords and tenants in all aspects of commercial leasing and also advises lending institutions in the finance of residential and commercial property. Education University College Cork (BCL) (LLM)

Aisling Breen

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)

Aisling O'Donovan

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:

Alan Cronin

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)

Alex Whelan

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor, Cork Office
Alex practises across the areas of Real Estate and Banking and Finance, advising clients on a wide range of commercial and residential property transactions including acquisitions, sales, commercial leases, and other Landlord and Tenant matters. She also has experience advising both developers and landowners in renewable energy developments. Alex acts for financial institutions, property developers and corporate borrowers in a range of commercial lending transactions. She also advises on the property aspects of corporate and finance transactions. In her role, Alex has gained experience advising on property and probate related disputes and litigation and has previously acted for Insurance Companies in defence of a variety of claims. Education University College Cork, BCL (Law and French)

Amy Roberts

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)

Anna Sreenan

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor
  • Solicitor, Cork Office
Anna is a Solicitor practising in the firm's Healthcare Litigation team. Her practice focus is on advising on clinical negligence cases, Coroner's inquests and healthcare inquiries. Her clients include public and private healthcare enterprises, insurance companies and the State Claims Agency. Anna is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and regularly attends Courts of all levels Education University College Cork (BCL)

Annmarie Buckley

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
  • Solicitor
  • Solicitor, Cork Office
Annmarie is a solicitor in the firms Dispute Resolution team. Annmarie works on the commercial litigation team assisting on complex disputes. She works with the team on insurance defence in particular professional negligence claims involving construction and legal professionals, as well as disputes on cover. She has 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 and arbitration. Education National University of Ireland Maynooth (BCL Law and Economics)

Antoinette Vahey

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Galway Office
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.

Aoife Brannigan

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate, Dublin Office
Aoife is an Associate practising as part of the firm's Real Estate team. She has experience working on a broad range of matters including advising clients on large scale residential transactions, commercial property transactions and real estate financing. Aoife acts for a wide range of clients including local authorities, approved housing bodies, corporate bodies and property developers. Aoife was part of the team who advised on the sale of Airton Plaza, a 328-unit residential development to Clúid Housing Association and has advised Oaklee Housing AHB on multiple bulk acquisitions of social and cost rental units. Aoife is a committee member of both the Society of Young Solicitors and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Young Leaders Ireland branch. She is also an active volunteer with ALONE, a charity which focuses on keeping the elderly connected with the community. Education Bachelor of Law with Economics (BCL) - University College Dublin

Aoife O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate, Galway Office
Aoife is a Senior Associate in our Healthcare Team with specialist experience in acting for medical professionals, institutions and their indemnifiers in Ireland. Aoife has extensive experience in advising healthcare professionals in both public and private Hospitals in the defence of medical claims in the Irish Courts. Aoife also advises healthcare professionals and hospitals at coroner's inquests. She has negotiated settlements with and without counsel and has also experience in mediation. Aoife also practises in the Cyber and Data Protection Department. Aoife also advises both private and public organisations in relation to compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018. Education University of Galway (BCL) University College Cork (LLM) Law Society of Ireland (Certificate in English and Welsh Land Law)

Arabella Carr

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)

Ashling Walsh

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.

Brendan Cunningham

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.

Brendan O'Connell

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Brian Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Brian Morrissey

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Brian Quinn

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Bryan McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
  • Partner in Charge

Carol Long

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Catriona Crumlish

Job Titles:
  • Health Service Executive - Court of Appeal
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Cian Fenton

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate

Clair Burke

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Conor Moran

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor

Daisy Magahy

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Damian Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Darryl Broderick

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate
  • Solicitor
  • Company Secretarial Executive

Deborah Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Denise Kennedy

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Diarmaid Gavin

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner in Charge

Doireann Hurley

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Donal Twomey

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Elena Vassileva

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Emma Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Eoin Tobin

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate

Erc Walsh

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Evan Collins

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Evan Fitzgerald

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Evin McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Finola McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Gillian Keating

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner in Charge

Graham Delaney

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Gráinne Finn

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Jack Bergin

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Solicitor

James Leahy

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Jamie Olden

Job Titles:
  • Company Secretarial Executive

Jennifer Cashman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Jennifer Drury Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor

John Cuddigan

Job Titles:
  • Partner

JP Gilmartin

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate
  • Partner in Charge

Leanne Connell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Lisa Mannion

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Louise Boughton

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Senior Associate

Louise Smith

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Maria Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Marianne Lonergan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Marie Gavin

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Marion Meehan

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate

Mark Barrett

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Mary Purtill

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Padraic Brennan

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Patrick Ahern

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Chartered Tax Adviser

Peter Lennon

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Richard Martin

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Ricky Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Construction Consultant

Ronan Geary

Job Titles:
  • Construction Consultant
  • Partner in Charge

Sean O'Reilly - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate

Shane O'Connell

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Shane O'Connor

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate

Sharlene Minehane

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Sharon Burke

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Company Secretarial Executive

Stephanie Coughlan

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Senior Associate

Tadhg Ó Scanaill

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor

Tom Fox

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor

Tomás McDonagh

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Uilliam Ó Lorcáin

Job Titles:
  • Partner