We have a strong reputation for providing tailored, intuitive and solution-focused service, bespoke to the needs of our corporate and commercial clients to enable them to achieve their goals.

Our extensive resources ensure the provision of first-class client service, marrying legal expertise with the development of strong personal relationships at every level.

Our specialist services include advising in relation to:

  • Joint ventures, strategic alliances and other collaborative structures
  • Partnerships
  • Overseas clients setting up operations in Ireland
  • Commercial contracts
  • Corporate finance (both debt and equity)
  • All aspects of the Companies Acts
  • Corporate mergers, migrations and demergers
  • Corporate governance and compliance matters for private, public and state companies
  • Directors’ duties and responsibilities, including under the Listing Rules and the ESM Rules
  • General advice on share capital and shareholder rights
  • Succession planning for businesses

Experience

  • Siro (joint venture between ESB and Vodafone) on a wide range of commercial agreements for the implementation of a new fibre network throughout Ireland.
  • ISE and SIX listed Aryzta on contractual issues involved in the full life cycle of a number of delivery services and supply contracts.
  • A complicated joint venture for the sale of insurance products in the UK and Ireland.
  • The boards of large Irish companies on directors’ compliance statements.
  • Numerous international clients on the corporate and commercial aspects of their Irish operations.
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Richard Curran

Partner
Corporate and Commercial

rcurran@lkshields.ie
+ 353 1 637 1514

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+ 353 1 637 1514

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+353 1 637 1538

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+ 353 1 637 1546

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+ 353 1 637 1522

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+353 1 6385826

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+353 1 637 1582

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+ 353 1 638 5851

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+ 353 1 638 5844

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+353 1 638 5832

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+ 353 1 638 5849

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