Irish Legal Services
Clark Hill has a full-service Irish law practice and experience advising European and US clients doing business in or through Ireland. Our practice includes corporate/transactional, litigation & dispute resolution, insolvency, property, employment, and cybersecurity. Our team serves a range of industries, from real estate developers and financial institutions to logistics firms, wind farms and home health providers.
Our clients are based in Ireland and across Europe. We work with clients of all sizes, including multinational organizations, SMEs, family companies, and high net worth individuals.
Clients rely not only on the experience of our Ireland-based professionals, but the seamless resources offered by the Clark Hill firm, one of the largest international law firms.
The advice we provide is industry-specific and individually tailored to help our clients to achieve their legal and business objectives.
Corporate and Commercial Law
Our Corporate and Commercial Law attorneys assist with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, insolvency and reorganisations, investments, cybersecurity and data privacy, intellectual property and technology (including domain name and trademark negotiations) and cross-border services.
Company Secretarial Services
Our Dublin Company Secretarial Team provides company secretarial services to Irish companies and company formation services to those wishing to set up companies or establish branches in Ireland. We ensure that companies comply with all statutory obligations, such as annual filings with the Companies Registration Office and recording of beneficial ownership in the Registry of Beneficial Owners. Our company secretarial services include a fast-track company incorporation scheme for private limited companies, through which we can guarantee incorporation within five business days. Other services include the formation and maintenance of property management companies, acting as named company secretary for companies, compiling statutory registers, and provision of registered office. Further details of our company secretarial services are outlined in our information brochure attached to this page.
Real Estate Law
Our Real Estate and Property attorneys offer a wide range of services such as commercial property transactions, residential and commercial conveyancing and probate, property refinancing, drafting and advising landlords and tenants on commercial and private leases.
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Our Litigation, Dispute Resolution, and Bankruptcy & Insolvency colleagues provide services for corporate and complex disputes (internal and intra-company), regulatory inquiries, international arbitration, cybersecurity breach response, examinerships, fraud investigations and civil enforcements, multijurisdictional issues, professional negligence claims, cross-border litigation, and representation at the Irish High Court (including its Commercial Court division), Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Clark Hill serves clients investing in the rapidly growing Irish offshore wind industry steering them, and local communities, through the potential bottleneck involved in the consenting and planning process.
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ViewDublin—The Gateway to Europe
Clark Hill is an innovative, entrepreneurial organization. We offer a sophisticated blend of legal excellence and informed political and industry experience. We bring multinational and industry-specific understanding and context to clients in all fields, working across the USA, Europe and Mexico. Our transatlantic platform and substantial presence in Ireland marks us out as a uniquely good fit for clients with business and ambitions between the two continents.
Unique Ireland/U.S. footprint
We are the first U.S. firm with a multi-disciplinary full-service offering in both Ireland and in the U.S. We opened our office in Dublin in 2016 and as of January 2022 have a presence in Galway. We currently have more than 30 solicitors on the ground – and our office continues to grow dramatically. On the US side, we have more than 25 offices serving an international client base, including Irish clients, coast to coast. We also have a presence in Mexico City, Mexico. We are particularly strong in target destinations for Irish companies—the Northeast, Midwest, Texas, and West Coast.
Commitment to Two-Way FDI
We are committed to supporting the two-way foreign direct investment (FDI) between Ireland and the U.S. We engage with clients from the beginning as they consider expansion opportunities and support them through their decision-making and each step of their commercial and legal journey. We’ve found that, for Irish companies looking to expand into the U.S., the primary legal areas of concern initially (at decision phase) are: Corporate (structuring and governance); Regulation; Immigration; Funding; Tax; and Employment. U.S. companies entering Ireland have similar needs.
One-stop shop
One of our differentiators is our ability to be a one-stop shop on the ground for our clients where they need us to be. We can service legal needs in both countries, including advising on what to expect in the other. Our clients find value in our ability to map the differences between the legal and regulatory regimes between both countries. Many companies have, until now, had no option but to engage separate firms in each country, which limits the joined-up nature of the advice and adds unnecessary cost. Clients consistently tell us that having one firm serve both roles has enormous value.
Understanding of the U.S.-Ireland business relationship
We understand the economic and demographic footprint in both countries and know well the commercial potential that footprint brings. Our team is very well placed to help support and enable clients in that two-way FDI. We also have excellent relationships with key stakeholders such as Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, United States Embassy, SelectUSA and the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland.
