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Irish law firms respond to the shake-up of the country’s battered banks and the latest trend of foreign direct investment into the country

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The Irish Government is supporting foreign direct investment into the country with a number of initiatives. Colm Rafferty reports

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The Government’s bailout of several of Ireland’s major financial institutions has driven local firms to rethink their banking relationships. Helen Mooney reports

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Hogan Lovells and Allen & Overy (A&O) have emerged as two of the biggest beneficiaries of legal spend by Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) since it was set up to address the crisis in the country’s banking system in December 2009. The two firms have collected more than €5m in fees between them since the start of 2010 – with Hogan Lovells earning €2.9m (£2.5m) and A&O €2.5m (£2.1m) – around a fifth of the body’s €27.6m (£23.1m) total legal spend over the period.

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Ireland’s Beauchamps Solicitors has acquired Landwell Solicitors, the Irish arm of the global legal network connected to accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers. Landwell, which comprises three partners and four fee earners, is to join forces with Beauchamps’ Dublin offices on Sir John Roberson’s Quay, creating a practice of twenty-five partners, 70 solicitors and 115 employees in total.

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Irish firm Dillon Eustace has bolstered its Asian practice with an office launch in Hong Kong. Corporate and M&A partner Paul Moloney will head the office, which opened today (1 September) and will provide European financial and regulatory advice to the firm’s existing Asian clients.

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Kennedys has merged with its Dublin associate office O’Hare O’Connor Walshe, as the firm also gears up to develop closer ties with its Chilean associate firm. The Irish merger went live today (1 June), with O’Hare now trading under the name Kennedys Ireland.

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Eleanor MacDonagh and Mark White look at Ireland’s establishment of a green financial services hub; Barry Cahir explains bankruptcy tourism and Robert O’Shea and Pat English look at the numbers behind foreign direct investment in the region

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Ireland’s strict bankruptcy laws have seen companies in danger head for kinder jurisdictions in the EU, most notably the UK. William Fry’s Barry Cahir reports

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Despite hard economic times, Matheson Ormsby Prentice’s Robert O’Shea and Pat English say foreign direct investment in Ireland has remained high and will be key in boosting the economy

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Ireland has pledged its commitment to environmentally-friendly business with the establishment of a green financial services hub. Eleanor MacDonagh and Mark White describe the hopes for the country’s economy

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Clifford Chance (CC) and Allen & Overy (A&O) have taken lead roles on a €5bn (£4bn) debt capital markets (DCM) transaction by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). The bond issuance, one of the latest transactions relating to the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, aims to tap capital markets to raise funds to make loan disbursements to Ireland under its loan facility agreement with the EFSF.

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Walkers has launched a tax practice in Ireland with the hire of William Fry partner Anthony Smyth, marking the offshore firm’s first venture into providing tax advice. Smyth is set to join Walkers’ Dublin arm in March 2011 from the Dublin office of William Fry, where he has been leading the financial services and inward investment tax practices.

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Allen & Overy (A&O) has won a mandate to advise the Treasury on the UK’s £3.2bn bilateral loan agreement with Ireland. The appointment sees A&O’s global banking chairman Michael Duncan and special global counsel Philip Wood take the lead role for the firm in relation to the UK’s part of the Irish bailout.

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Partners at top Irish law firms have voiced their support for Herbert Smith’s plans to open an office in Belfast to handle volume disputes work, arguing the base will provide a further avenue for law graduates in a depressed job market. Herbert Smith announced last week that it would be opening in Belfast in April 2011, with the office set to provide support for high-volume disputes work – with staff reviewing and analysing large volumes of documents in litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations.

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Beachcroft has expanded its London and Ireland bases with the hire of two new partners. Former Blake Lapthorn partner Jimmy Desai has joined Beachcroft’s City arm as a partner in the commercial services team. Desai will sit within the UK top 30 firm’s technology team and will work closely with sector head Tim Sewart, focusing on intellectual property, IT, data protection, privacy law and internet and media law. He has worked with a wide range of bluechip clients, public sector and government bodies as well as a number of universities.

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Arthur Cox and McCann FitzGerald have secured key advisory roles as the Irish Government moves to split troubled lender Anglo Irish Bank into two parts. Anglo Irish has teetered on the edge of insolvency since the collapse of Ireland’s economy amid the global economic downturn two years ago. Amid rising fears over the bank’s debts, Ireland’s finance ministry released a statement on Wednesday (8 September) detailing the decision to split Anglo Irish into a “funding bank” and an “asset recovery bank,” with plans to wind down the latter over several years.

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Magic circle firms Slaughter and May and Linklaters have acted on a £1bn energy M&A deal in Northern Ireland. The transaction, which was announced on 7 July, saw Government-owned electricity utility company ESB buy Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE), the Northern Irish electricity transmission and distribution business of the Viridian Group, as well as its associated electrical contracting businesses.

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Dechert is to open in Dublin with the hire of partner Declan O’Sullivan from Irish firm William Fry. The new office will focus on investment funds, investment managers and other fund service providers, becoming the first transatlantic funds practice in the region.

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Ireland’s A&L Goodbody has announced its annual promotions round with four of the five new partners made up in the firm’s Dublin base. The number is an increase on last year’s figure when only one lawyer was made up to the partnership in the firm’s litigation and employment practice in Belfast.

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