Our experience and knowledge of industry gives us a clear understanding of the legal and business world in which our clients operate.
We are a full service business law firm offering expertise across the full spectrum of legal services including Corporate, Commercial, Employment, Intellectual Property, Banking, Asset Finance, Aviation, Commercial Litigation and Commercial Property.
Most of the senior management team have actually worked in either industry or the banking sector and understand the need for quick and commercial decisions. Our clients recognise our commitment to providing excellent service and finding innovative solutions.
Our Partners are recognised within the industry as experts in their respective fields and regularly speak at events and contribute to publications and books.
We provide our clients with relevant advice on all areas of company and commercial law including but not limited to; the sale and purchase of companies and businesses, management buy-outs and buy-ins, public company advisory work and flotation, venture capital, private equity, corporate re-organisations, share buy-backs, banking and security arrangements, franchising and shareholders agreements.
We advise on all employment matters including drafting employment contracts, advices on statutory terms and conditions of employment, employee litigation in the Courts and Tribunals, industrial relations and actions, redundancies, restructuring, data protection and visa procurement.
We have experience in all areas of commercial litigation acting for a diverse range of clients in all Courts including the Commercial Division of the High Court. We have particular experience in acting in high value, complex litigation for plcs, SME’s and entrepreneurs.
We provide information technology and intellectual property services to almost all sectors in which we practise, including advices on trademark and patent registration.
Our mission statement is to achieve the best optimum results for our clients by providing commercially driven legal solutions so that clients can get on with the business of making profit.
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Aviation
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Commercial
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Commercial
Flynn O’Driscoll LLP act for both the private and public sector across a multitude of business areas and industries. Our experience in this area is diverse, ranging from advising international corporations to small family businesses. We provide both technical and practical advice on issues relating to the life cycles of all types of commercial contracts, from the procurement process, throughout contract negotiations, to enforcement or termination of contracts. Our team’s dedicated expertise in this area, coupled with our solution-based approach, means that at all times we ensure that contractual obligations protect our clients’ best interests and promote the desired commercial outcome.
Our key services include:
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- Confidentiality Agreements
- Outsourcing
- Trading Agreements
- Buying and Selling
- Agency and Distribution
- Franchise Agreements
- Standard Trading Terms & Conditions
- Sales and Marketing
- Freight and Transport
“The ‘top-notch’ team at Flynn O’Driscoll handles M&A, corporate structuring and commercial transactions, and has ‘excellent business acumen’. Clients include private equity firms, education providers and pharmaceuticals companies. Alan O’Driscoll heads the team, and consultant John Darby is also recommended.” The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2016
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Company Secretarial Services
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Company Secretarial Services
Flynn O’Driscoll LLP Company Secretarial Services team provides a full range of company secretarial services to Public limited companies, private limited companies, and non-profit corporations, both domestic and international.
Our key services include:
- Corporate transactions.
- Scheduling & facilitating board and general meetings.
- Annual company compliance responsibilities.
- Trustee services.
- Setting up a new company in Ireland.
- Registering a new branch in Ireland.
- Re-registration of different company types and changes to constitutions.
- Arranging notarisation and/or apostilisation of documents
- Tax registrations
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Construction & Engineering
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Construction & Engineering
Our team provides legal services to clients involved in construction and engineering projects. Timely advice during the course of construction and engineering contracts can assist with early resolution of problems and better management of time and cost issues.
We represent a broad range of interests, including construction companies, utility companies, contractors, sub-contractors and construction professionals.
Our key services include:
- public private partnerships
- contract interpretation
- structural liability and professional negligence
- joint ventures
- TUPE and related employment issues
- arbitration
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Corporate
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Employment
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Employment
Flynn O’Driscoll LLP have extensive experience in advising on all facets of the employment relationship from managing challenging interpersonal issues to dismissals and redundancies. We offer strategic and operational advices on a wide range of employment, equality and industrial relations law issues throughout the public and private sector. Our clients include many leading multinational and Irish companies, pension scheme trustees and public sector organisations.
Our key services include:
- The engagement, employment, organisation and management of employees
- Advising employees and employers on contentious matters where the employment relationship has broken down
- Drafting a full range of employment contracts as well as third party contracts for services, outsourcing arrangements, employment agency contracts
- Assisting with drafting and implementation of a full range of HR policies, IT acceptable use, dignity in the workplace, bullying and harassment, holidays and time off, hours of work
- Advices in relation to compensation and benefits- contractual terms, bonus and incentive schemes, “good” and “bad” leaver provisions
- Advices in relation to confidentiality, know-how protection, data protection, confidentiality, IP and freedom of information
- Advices in relation to TUPE Regulations and outsourcing arrangements
- Interaction and consultation with employees and employers in all labour fora and courts as well as mediations
Patrick Flynn and Alan O’Driscoll at Flynn O’Driscoll have ‘extensive experience and insight’. The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2016
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Energy & Resources
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Energy & Resources
Flynn O’Driscoll LLP is quickly becoming recognised as a first rate energy and resources practice in Ireland. We have developed our expertise in respect of the energy and resources sector in line with the growth, regulation and development of the energy sector.
Our key services include:
- energy regulation & compliance under national and EU law
- public procurement
- regulatory reform
- gas supply, connection and storage contracts
- electricity supply and connection contracts
- mergers and acquisitions
- EU and competition law
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Environment
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Environment
Flynn O’ Driscoll LLP is familiar with the commercial pressures that companies in this sector face and the stringent regulatory environment in which they operate. Our grasp of this complex area allows us to assist our clients make better business decisions. Legal matters in the waste sector require consideration of economic, environmental and market-related issues. We advise on all legal issues relevant to collection service, recovery and disposal operators active in the waste management and recycling industry.
Our key services include:
- regulatory advice
- planning applications and appeals
- licence and permit applications
- commercial recycling agreements
- contractual issues
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Family Businesses
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Family Businesses
Flynn O’ Driscoll LLP has a wealth of experience in identifying and solving the legal challenges facing sports clubs, societies and sporting individuals in the organisation of their activities as well as in matters of litigation. We provide specialist legal advice to sports associations, clubs (including League of Ireland and senior GAA), professional and amateur athletes across a variety of sports including soccer, GAA games, rugby, horse racing, cricket and golf.
Our key services include:
- protecting intellectual property and image rights
- litigation and dispute resolution
- drafting and negotiating player/manager contracts
- disciplinary codes of conduct
- sponsorship agreements
- rules and regulations
- property development and stadium management
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Banking & Finance
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Banking & Finance
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Flynn O’Driscoll’s Banking and Finance team represent a wide array of clients including corporate, mid-cap, SME, partnerships and personal borrowers, and domestic and international lenders on a broad range of financing matters. The team has a wealth of experience and expertise with transactional financing across a broad spectrum of industry sectors. A core element of the Banking and Finance team’s focus is the support of the corporate & M&A team in delivering a holistic business and finance solution to our valued clients.
Our key services include:
- Acquisition Finance
- Real Estate Investment and Development Finance
- Debt Restructuring and Deleveraging
- Portfolio and Bilateral Loan Sales and Acquisitions
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Food & Agriculture
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Food & Agriculture
The food and agri-sectors comprise a large sector of Irish business. Flynn O’Driscoll LLP has considerable experience in this area advising a wide cross section of businesses on trading in Ireland and overseas.
Our key services include:
- distribution and agency agreements
- long term supply contracts
- advices on co-operative law
- outsourcing agreements
- trade marks, patents and intellectual property protection
- financings and banking arrangements
- property issues
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FinTech
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FinTech
Our lawyers at Flynn O’Driscoll LLP have substantial knowledge and experience when it comes to FinTech and on advising the legal challenges concerning intellectual property, financial services regulation, data protection and privacy and e-commerce in financial services.
Our key services include:
- Intellectual Property protection, structures, and licensing arrangements.
- GDPR compliance, privacy structures, multi-jurisdiction data processing and transfer arrangements, and data security.
- Start-up and mature FinTech providers.
- Licensing, corporate structure and compliance issues.
- Negotiation and enforcement of joint venture, commercial and other strategic agreements.
- Private equity funds, venture capital investors and companies.
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Alan O’Driscoll, Cian O’Leary, David Ryan, Gavin Lawlor, Laura Myles
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Insolvency and Corporate Recovery
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Insolvency and Corporate Recovery
The Flynn O’Driscoll LLP’s Insolvency and Corporate Recovery team collaborates with a variety of stakeholders on all elements of insolvency and corporate recovery in order to find practical solutions to difficult financial and business situations.
Our key services include:
- Business restructures and corporate recovery
- Insolvency proceedings
- Disqualification of directors
- Examinerships
- Receiverships
- Bankruptcies
- Liquidations
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Alan O’Driscoll, Cian O’Leary, Gavin Lawlor, James Duggan
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Insurance and Reinsurance
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Insurance and Reinsurance
Flynn O’Driscoll LLP’s corporate, regulatory, and transactional insurance team advises on a wide range of industry participants, including life and non-life insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, private equity investors, and vital industry associations, as part of its integrated insurance transactional and regulatory practice.
Our key services include:
- Strategies for Restructuring including Portfolio Transfers, and Cross Border Merger Transactions
- Third Party Service Provider Contracts, including Outsourcing Arrangements
- Client Representation before EU and Irish Regulatory Bodies
- Effective Structuring of Distribution Channels
- Establishment & Tax Benefits and Incentives
- Product Structuring and Documentation
- Frameworks for Effective Compliance
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Regulatory Inspections
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Information Technology
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Information Technology
Flynn O’Driscoll LLP provides a comprehensive range of legal services to the information technology sector. Our clients are developers, distributors and suppliers of IT products, systems and services.
Our key services in this sector include:
- the procurement and delivery of IT systems and services
- outsourcing projects and managed services
- software development and distribution arrangements
- dispute resolution
- joint ventures and other strategic alliances, (merger and acquisition, business purchase and sale agreements, shareholder arrangements, governance terms)
- e-commerce and Internet-based businesses, including website development, hosting, and content management
- data protection, privacy principles and security
- project finance and other funding arrangements
- intellectual property management, enforcement and commercialisation
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Intellectual Property
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Intellectual Property
The intellectual property team at Flynn O’Driscoll LLP advises on the acquisition, exploitation, use and enforcement of intellectual property rights across the globe. We provide cost effective advice to clients in relation to both contentious and commercial matters for our clients and we strive to provide them with a complete legal service for their intellectual property and technology law needs. Our clients include leading domestic and international companies and we work closely with them to protect and enforce their valued intellectual property rights which include naming rights, sponsorship agreements, protection of domain names, trade secrets and confidential know-how. We also work closely with our clients in the advising on intellectual property issues arising out of joint ventures, technology transfer and other commercial arrangements.
We advise on intellectual property issues arising out of information technology and online transactions generally, including software licensing and development in all its aspects, outsourcing and business transformation.
Our key services include:
- Advising on copyright issues arising in a broad range of sectors
- Full trade mark and designs registration services
- Advising on the protection of trade secrets and confidential know-how
- Enforcing intellectual property against infringers
- Advising on intellectual property issues arising out of joint ventures, technology transfer and other commercial arrangements
- Dealing with issues arising out of computer contracts including sale of hardware and software licensing
- Advising on issues arising out of the internet, information technology and e-commerce generally
- Advising on passing off disputes
- Securing protection of domain names including preparing WIPO complaints
- Advising on IP exploitation strategies (licencing, assignment, franchising and distribution)
- Research and development contracts
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Life Sciences
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Life Sciences
Companies operating in the life sciences sector face specific challenges given the highly regulated environment in which they operate. At Flynn O’Driscoll LLP we provide expert advice on a range of issues including patent infringement litigation, intellectual property licensing, corporate and regulatory issues. We represent clients across the spectrum, from established indigenous and multi-national firms, to StartUp and early stage companies in every phase of the growth cycle. Our key services include:
Our key services in this sector include:
- Advice on patent law including infringement and invalidity
- Licensing of intellectual property
- Product liability
- Life science regulatory law
- Sector specific competition law
- Research and development
- Commercial agreements
- Corporate structuring
- Inward investment
- Funding raising and grants
- IPOs
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Litigation
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Media & Entertainment
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Media & Entertainment
At Flynn O’ Driscoll LLP we have a dedicated Media practice providing the highest quality legal advice to both individuals and companies involved in the media, entertainment and advertising industry.
Our clients include broadcasters, digital platform operators, distributors, film and television producers and financiers, theatre companies, advertising & media companies and publishers in addition to those working in the music and entertainment fields.
We also act for financial institutions and other investors in their investments into media related businesses both in Ireland and the UK.
Our key services include:
- content acquisition and distribution and licensing arrangements
- infrastructure and technology arrangements
- conditional access services agreements including EPG arrangements
- corporate acquisitions and debt finance
- joint ventures and strategic alliances
- internet advertising
- licensing, brand protection and passing off
- production and distribution arrangements
- film production finance, ‘Section 481 Financing’
- publishing agreements
- licence and label agreements
- brand issues
- infringements
- copyright breaches
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Medical & Pharmaceutical
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Medical & Pharmaceutical
Flynn O’ Driscoll LLP’s lawyers are experienced in assisting and advising clients on a variety of medical and pharmaceutical law matters including the exploitation of technology and/or products, product licensing, acquisition and enforcement of patents and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Our work with clients in the medical and pharmaceutical sectors has helped them concentrate on achieving their wider strategic objectives by ensuring that their day to day business issues, such as protecting intellectual property rights and licensing and distribution agreements are dealt with quickly and efficiently.
Our clients range from large pharmaceutical companies, universities, medical device companies, distributors, hospitals, pharmacies and medical centers.
Our key services include:
- license and know-how agreements
- distribution agreement
- research and development agreements
- outsourcing agreements
- regulatory
- joint ventures & strategic alliances
- patent and trade mark litigation
- dispute resolution
- data protection
- EU & competition law
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Private Equity
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Private Equity
Flynn O’Driscoll LLP’s private equity lawyers have substantial experience in working with International and Irish private equity houses concerning negotiating transactions and structuring. We offer authentic industry knowledge and experience, high quality services and commercial judgement.
Our key services include:
- Advising on leveraged buyouts and secondary buyouts
- Advising shareholders and management on a sale to Private Equity
- Advising Private Equity Houses on the acquisition of Irish businesses and subsequent bolt-on acquisitions
- Structuring investments and funding for Private Equity houses, shareholders and management
- Negotiating deal structures and implementing effective buy out and exit strategies
- Asset management and protection
- Fund formation and structuring
- Management incentivisation
- Recapitalisations
- Portfolio management
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Real Estate
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Real Estate
Flynn O’Driscoll LLP has considerable experience on the property law needs of clients, some of which are property development companies. It has been involved in transactions in Ireland and Internationally. Its key services include commercial leases and all aspects of financing and security in relation to property including compliance with the Companies Act.
Our key services include:
- Tax-based schemes
- Joint ventures and co-ownership schemes
- Acquisition and disposal
- Purchase, development, sale and leasing of commercial property
- Development & Co-living developments
- Planning and environmental issues
- Financing
- Joint ventures and ownership structures
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Property
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Renewable Energy
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Renewable Energy
Our experienced legal team is one of the few in Ireland that can provide multi-disciplinary legal advice in support of renewable energy projects in both Ireland and the UK having gained, in particular, significant experience of wind and solar projects.
We have experience of acting for all parties involved in successful projects including developers, banks, equity investors, contractors and suppliers. The support we provide spans the full range of legal disciplines from day-to-day real estate, planning, construction, commercial, corporate and employment issues, to specialist commercial litigation advice on complex and technical disputes. We also advise clients on project structuring and finance and have worked on a number of EIIS funded transactions.
We are professional and knowledgeable, yet still able to explain issues in a straightforward way and to suggest commercial solutions. We also benefit from a strong network of contacts and are always keen to add value by fostering introductions and connections, where possible.
Experience
Our legal team have experience of:
- The sale of the renewable energy business of Ervia (previously known as Bord Gáis) to Brookfield Renewable (including 17 wind farms) for approximately €700 million.
- Advising an Irish headquartered, independent global developer of renewable energy.
- Advising an Irish SPV in relation to equity investment in a large-scale wind farm in the Kalahari desert, Ghana.
- Advising a Spanish group on a joint venture agreement relating to a 10MW solar project in England.
- Advising investors in connection with the tidal lagoon project in Swansea, South Wales.
- A back-to-back purchase and sale of a solar SPV involving a well-known international solar fund collectively holding £7 billion of renewable and conventional energy projects.
- Working on various wind and solar transactions for the investment arm of a well-known green bank.
- Various acquisitions and sales of UK solar parks.
- Assisting a blue chip UK company on its acquisition of the UK’s leading specialist integrator and distributor of solar, thermal, photovoltaic power, heat pumps and under floor heating.
A selection of our renewable energy clients
- Vayu
- Pinergy
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Restructuring & Insolvency
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Restructuring & Insolvency
Our Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency teams provide a comprehensive service on all aspects of insolvency, corporate recovery and personal bankruptcy. Our teams are made up of restructuring and insolvency experts and lawyers from our corporate, finance, regulatory, employment, real estate and litigation groups. By drawing on a depth of extensive and relevant expertise from within the firm, we can provide appropriate multi-dimensional advice to our clients on the increasingly challenging and technically complex areas of insolvency and restructuring.
Our Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency teams advise on:
• General restructuring and reorganisations
• Debt and equity restructuring
• Intercreditor arrangements and agreements
• Financial restructuring
• Insolvency procedures – scheme of arrangement, examinership, receivership and personal bankruptcy
• Liquidations – Creditors, voluntary liquidation, members’ voluntary liquidation, court liquidation
• Distressed debt
• Advising directors, shareholders and creditors of entities in difficultiesPlease review our Restructuring & Insolvency page for more information
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Waste & Recycling
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Waste & Recycling
Flynn O’ Driscoll LLP is familiar with the commercial pressures that companies in this sector face and the stringent regulatory environment in which they operate. Our grasp of this complex area allows us to assist our clients make better business decisions. Legal matters in the waste sector require consideration of economic, environmental and market-related issues. We advise on all legal issues relevant to collection service, recovery and disposal operators active in the waste management and recycling industry.
Our key services include:
- regulatory advice
- planning applications and appeals
- licence and permit applications
- commercial recycling agreements
- contractual issues
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