Legal

The Business Post has compiled a list of Ireland’s leading legal practitioners across real estate, planning, insolvency, tech, intellectual property, employment and other sectors

For anyone involved in business in Ireland, interacting with the law is inevitable.

Many owners, executives, investors, shareholders, and employees will experience this interaction amidst a wave of other regulatory and administrative requirements, but it will rarely go unnoticed.

In some cases, businesses will find themselves deeply entangled in Ireland’s legal system if challenges need to be defended, corporate entities need to be restructured, or big deals need to be closed.

Ireland has a wealth of legal talent well-versed in catering to the needs of domestic and international businesses. To showcase some of these, the Business Post compiled a list of 100 top lawyers working in sectors that our readers most frequently engage with.

These include real estate, planning, insolvency, tech, intellectual property, employment, and many others.

We asked C-suite executives, in-house counsel, and a variety of other legal sources who they rate as the top legal practitioners in their relevant field.

The list presented here is a collection of the names we kept hearing, described as people who were at the top of their game. The only requirement for inclusion was that they be specialising in a business sector and a partner in a private firm. We have also included a category of senior counsels practicing in commercial sectors to showcase some of the brightest and busiest talent at the Bar.

It should go without saying, but I am going to say it anyway, that this list could be significantly longer if it was not numerically constrained as there are hundreds more talented legal eagles working hard around the country. This is the first publication of such a list and we look forward to building on it for future editions.

With nearly 40 women on this list of 100 legal powerhouses, it is also more balanced than the equity partnership levels of most Irish firms and the gender breakdown in the senior bar. Perhaps that is an indication that clients will continue to be the ones driving change in this regard.

The lawyers on this list work hard for their clients and while many are recognised by third-party ranking firms, much of their work goes unnoticed by the general public.

I believe this list is representative of the most skilled business lawyers and I am proud to present it to our readers.