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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...

In this audio briefing, Catherine Wolfe, an associate in the Insurance and Reinsurance team will discuss some of the key legislative changes that will shortly come into effect under the Consumer Insurance Contract Act 2019. Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of litigation in Ireland, quite dramatically in fact, and has really accelerated technological change and forced the courts and lawyers to change the way they operate. And while this change was a necessary response to the pandemic, it has in fact set the stage for how things might play out on a more permanent basis, and how our courts might operate into t...

In this audio briefing, Catherine Wolfe, an associate in the Insurance and Reinsurance team, looks at the new Government’s extensive agenda for insurance reform. Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, plea...

Episode 4 in the London Irish Business Society Leadership Series, Brian is joined by Rachel Hussey, Partner and Head of Business Development at Arthur Cox and Chair of the 30% Club Ireland. Rachel shares her thoughts on mentorship, leading remote teams, and diversity in the Irish business community. Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute...

Can a compliance officer be prosecuted where the organisation that employs him or her has committed a regulatory offence? What about a health and safety manager where the organisation has breached health and safety law – can he or she be prosecuted? In this briefing, Sinéad Reilly explores the answer to these questions, with reference to a recent Supreme Court decision– DPP v TN. Disclaimer: The c...

This is the second update in the Corporate Crime Audio Series and in this briefing, Tara Roche, Associate in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group, discusses mandatory reporting obligations for companies, and in particular obligations under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act 2011. This section was introduced to facilitate the investigation and prosecution of corporate cri...

In this audio briefing, Niall Guinan, associate in the Insurance and Reinsurance group, discusses developments in the UK in relation to the contested area of business interruption insurance policies in light of the current pandemic crisis. Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in rel...

In this audio briefing, Joanelle O’Cleirigh, Partner in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group, discusses how companies have seen a significant increase in the need for investigations in the Corporate Crime area. Joanelle also covers four topics in relation to considering whether you need to carry out your own investigation. Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assi...