IRELAND Law and Practice Contributed by: Grainne Callanan, April McClements and Aisling Kavanagh, Matheson LLP
Matheson LLP was established in 1825 in Dublin and has offices in Cork, London, New York, Palo Alto and San Francisco. The firm employs more than 800 peo- ple across its six offices, including 120 partners and tax principals, as well as 540 legal, tax and digital services professionals. Matheson services the legal needs of internationally focused companies and fi- nancial institutions doing business in and from Ire- land. The firm counts more than half of the world’s
top 50 banks, seven of the world’s ten largest asset managers, and nine of the world’s top ten most inno- vative companies among its clients, and has advised the majority of Fortune 100 companies. The team’s expertise spans more than 30 practice groups, in- cluding finance and capital markets, insolvency and corporate restructuring, asset management and in- vestment funds, commercial real estate, litigation and dispute resolution, insurance, and tax.
Authors
Grainne Callanan is a partner in the financial institutions group at Matheson LLP and leads the firm’s Cork office. She specialises in corporate and regulatory insurance and has advised a wide range of
April McClements is a partner in the Disputes and Investigations group at Matheson LLP and specialises in insurance disputes. She advises on the full spectrum of insurance disputes, in particular complex
leading domestic and international financial institutions on all aspects of financial services law and regulation, including authorisation and establishment, corporate governance and reorganisations, combined cross-border M&A, compliance, and regulatory matters. Grainne is on the Advisory Board of the International Bar Association’s Insurance Committee. She regularly lectures for the Law Society of Ireland and the Insurance Institute of Ireland.
coverage disputes. She also advises on policy wording interpretation and drafting, D&O claims, professional indemnity claims (including any potential third-party liability), cyber and emerging risks, and subrogation/recovery claims. April manages large-scale complex commercial disputes, including high-profile Commercial Court litigation and arbitrations under international rules and domestic legislation. April has been involved in most of the precedent-setting insurance disputes in Ireland over the last number of years.
Aisling Kavanagh is a partner in the Disputes and Investigations group at Matheson LLP. She specialises in insurance disputes and has particular expertise in large-scale complex litigation and ADR, including
mediation and arbitration. Aisling advises a wide range of clients on insurance issues such as policy wordings, coverage, policy disputes, and subrogated recovery actions.
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