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The European Union (Occupational Pension Schemes) Regulations 2021 known as the IORP II Regulations were signed into Irish law on 22 April 2021. These regulations fully transpose the requirements of the European IORP II directive into Irish law. The IORP II Regulations are set to change the landscape of how Irish occupational pension schemes are operated and governed. Disclaimer: The contents of t...

In the final 'Back to Basics' episode for 2021, Suzanne Kearney, Of Counsel in the Corporate and M&A Department in Arthur Cox, is joined by Aisling Carey, Professional Support Lawyer in the Corporate and M&A Department in Arthur Cox and Tom Courtney, partner in Arthur Cox to discuss mergers involving private companies. In the last six years in particular, mergers have become a common feature of co...

In the latest episode of our Company Law, Back to Basics series, Suzanne Kearney, Of Counsel in the Corporate and M&A Department, Aisling Carey, Professional Support Lawyer in the Corporate and M&A Department and Tom Courtney, partner in Arthur Cox are focusing on shares and share capital as they consider the various types of shares which may be issued by a company, and the restrictions on the alt...

In our inaugural alliance podcast episode, Keith Donaldson, alliance committee member, is joined by Matt Kennedy, Policy and Research Officer at BeLong To Youth Services, and Kate Cummins, Youth Worker at BeLong To Youth Services, to discuss the organisations work, particularly a recent report produced and released last year titled 'The LGBTI+ Life in Lockdown'. The podcast looks at the challenges...

In this podcast Colin Rooney, Partner in the Technology and Innovation Group, will be discussing the use of electronic signatures with Maedhbh Clancy, Of Counsel in our Finance Department and Suzanne Kearney, Of Counsel in our Corporate and M&A Department. Maedhbh and Suzanne regularly encounter and consider various aspects of the execution of documents and deeds, including the use of electronic s...

In the latest episode of our Company Law, Back to Basics series, Suzanne Kearney, Of Counsel in the Corporate and M&A Department, Aisling Carey, Professional Support Lawyer in the Corporate and M&A Department and Tom Courtney, partner in Arthur Cox discuss the topic of members and directors meetings in private companies. They distinguish between private and public companies in this regard as there...

In December 2020, amendments to the Irish Investment Limited Partnerships legislation were enacted to reflect changes needed to update this legislation with features in other Irish structures (such as the ICAV). The aim is for the Irish ILP structure to be the preferred vehicle for EU investment funds structured as partnerships. In the latest episode of the Asset Management and Investment Funds Po...

At the start of the lockdown in March 2020 our Asset Management and Investment Funds Team initiated regular webinars to keep in touch with our clients, the director community and contacts. The purpose of this new podcast series is to provide you with these updates in a revised format. In this episode, Sarah Cunniff, Partner, introduces an extract of the recording of the specific webinar on the Cen...

In the fourth episode of our Company Law: Back to Basics series, Suzanne Kearney, Of Counsel, is joined by Aisling Carey, Professional Support Lawyer, and Tom Courtney, Partner, to discuss the Summary Approval Procedure, or SAP as it is often referred to. The Summary Approval Procedure was one the key innovations introduced under the Companies Act 2014. Once again, it’s a great opportunity for our...

At the start of the lockdown in March 2020 our Asset Management and Investment Funds Team initiated regular webinars to keep in touch with our clients, the director community and contacts. The purpose of this new podcast series is to provide you with these updates in a revised format. In this episode, Sarah Cunniff, Partner, introduces an extract of the recording of the specific webinar on 24 Apri...

At the start of the lockdown in March 2020 our Asset Management and Investment Funds Team initiated regular webinars to keep in touch with our clients, the director community and contacts. The purpose of this new podcast series is to provide you with these updates in a revised format. In this first episode, Sarah Cunniff, Partner, introduces an extract of the recording of the specific webinar on t...

Welcome back to the third episode in our new series of audio-briefings looking at legal and regulatory developments from a corporate law perspective. In this episode, Suzanne Carey and Aisling Carey, both Professional Support Lawyers, are joined by Tom Courtney, a partner here at Arthur Cox and the author of the Law of Companies, regarded as the leading text on company law in Ireland. Tom also cha...

In this episode, Suzanne Kearney and Aisling Carey, both Professional Support Lawyers in the Corporate and M&A Department, are joined by Tom Courtney, Partner at Arthur Cox, who many of you will be familiar with from your bookshelves as the author of The Law of Companies, regarded as the leading text on company law in Ireland. Tom also chaired the Company Law Review Group for 18 years, the group w...

Can you claim legal privilege over documents in a Data Protection Commission investigation? How does the DPC assess claims to legal privilege? What, if anything, can we learn about the DPC's developing views on legal privilege from it's 2020 annual report? In this episode, Sinéad Reilly, Professional Support lawyer is joined by Richard Willis, Partner, Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigat...

Without doubt, the impact of COVID-19 and the requirement for employees to work remotely has drawn employers’ health and safety obligations more sharply into focus. In this episode, Kevin Langford, a partner in the Employment Law group at Arthur Cox is joined by Sarah Faulkner, associate in the Employment group, to examine some key considerations for employers in the context of their obligations t...

What does the 2020 Data Protection Commissions annual report tell us about the approach, the views, the strategy of the Data Protection Commission? To discuss this, Sinéad Reilly is joined by Colin Rooney, a partner in our Technology and Innovation team; Richard Willis, a partner in our Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations team; and Rachel Barry, an associate in our Employment team. D...

This is the first episode in our new series of audio-briefings looking at legal and regulatory developments from a corporate law perspective. AGMs, Brexit and Market Abuse, those are just some of the topics we have been discussing over the last few weeks. In this episode of the Corporate and M&A Update, Suzanne Kearney and Aisling Carey, both Professional Support Lawyers in the Corporate and M&A D...

It’s almost a year to the day since the first lockdown, with many businesses closed for most of that year, and some still closed. And those businesses are now examining their business interruption insurance coverage to see to what extent they can recover their losses, if at all. In this episode Joanelle O’Cleirigh, a partner in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations team, is joined...

The second episode of our series will focus on the construction sector and Niav O'Higgins, Partner, Brian Gillespie, Associate, and Katrina Donnelly, Professional Support Lawyer, from our Construction Group, will discuss how the industry had adapted to COVID-19 and how to manage the associated risks, together with a timely reminder of the risks associated with working at height, one of the more si...

The financial regulatory scene has been an extraordinarily active one in the past number of years, with a wide range of supervisory and enforcement themes on the Central Bank's agenda. But what's in play this coming year? In this first episode of our new podcast series "The Arthur Cox Regulatory Investigations Review", Sinead Reilly, a Professional Support Lawyer at Arthur Cox, is joined by Jennif...

Catherine Wolfe and Niall Guinan, associates in the Arthur Cox Insurance and Reinsurance team, discuss recent developments in relation to the impact of Brexit on the insurance sector in Ireland. As listeners will be aware, after leaving the EU on 31 January 2020 the UK entered into the transition period, which from a regulatory perspective maintained the status quo until 31 December 2020. At 11pm...

In this Winter Audio Briefing Series by the firm's Health and Safety Group, we address key topics which have been brought into sharper focus by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and which are likely to continue to dominate over the coming months. In the first episode, Deirdre O’Mahony, Partner, Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations and Alan Coyne, Associate, Litigation, Dispute Res...

What does it mean to act corruptly? What are the risks and what practical steps can businesses and other organisations take to address corruption risk? In this audio briefing, Deirdre O’Mahony (Partner) and Sinéad Reilly (Professional Support Lawyer) discuss the heightened risk of corrupt activity in times of crisis and disruption and the steps that companies and other organisations can take to mi...

The Residential Tenancies and Valuation Act 2020, enacted on 1 August 2020, replaces the measures put in place to protect residential tenants set out in the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020. In this audio briefing, Dearbhla Considine, Professional Support Lawyer in the Real Estate team, is joined by Real Estate Partner Órlaith Molloy to discuss some of the key changes...

Few would have thought business interruption insurance would be one of the hot legal topics of 2020, but few would have also predicted we would be living through a global pandemic. To discuss the business interruption insurance test case recently heard by the English High Court, Sinéad Reilly, the Professional Support Lawyer in our Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations group, is joined...