Commercial and Business
Contemporary business relationships have become more complex, particularly with continual legislative and regulatory developments. Our Commercial and Business team supports business clients with their day-to-day corporate and regulatory queries and activities, in their transactions, their corporate work, mergers and acquisitions (domestic and cross-border), and in litigation.
Our clients are public bodies and state agencies, public and private corporations, multinationals, SMEs, banks and financial institutions, private equity holders and sole traders. We are proud of our track record of working with some of Ireland’s leading corporations, along with start-up businesses who have grown to become strong corporate players.
We work closely with each client to meet their requirements based on their concerns, needs and expectations. Our team combines business insight with legal excellence and focuses on achieving practical and commercially-aware solutions.
Services
Our services cover:
- Banking
- Business establishment in Ireland
- Charities
- Company law
- Commercial litigation and dispute resolution
- Corporate and Company Secretarial
- Competition and EU law
- Data Protection
- Debt recovery
- Distribution, supply, agency, licensing & franchising agreements
- Food, retail, hygiene, safety & labelling
- Health & Safety
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Intellectual property and information technology
- Marketing and advertising
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Pensions
- Product liability and public liability
- Procurement
- Regulation
- Shareholders, joint ventures and partnership agreements.
What clients say: Commercial and Business
'David Phelan stands out for his expertise and experience, diligence and excellent communication, coupled with a professional and friendly manner.’
‘Robbie Slattery provides excellent advice to clients and fantastic litigation support to counsel. He is always available, good humoured, calm and on top of his work.’
‘Laura Fannin and her team are super responsive and across the detail. They make the life of the client much easier.’
‘Laura Fannin knows her stuff and explains it in clear terms that are useful to the business.’
‘David Phelan is very commercial in his advice.’
‘Jeremy Erwin, partner in the commercial litigation department, is a standout individual. He is incredibly knowledgeable and extremely pragmatic. He is an excellent soundboard, very approachable and always goes out of his way to be available and goes above and beyond to assist. He has an amazing knack of simplifying complicated issues.’
‘Joe O’Malley is brilliant – very clever but also commercial and brilliant to deal with. Robbie Slattery is also a very good member of the team.’
'Joseph O’Malley is highly-intelligent, excellent with clients and extremely hard working – the complete package.'
'Jeremy Erwin is also highly regarded. He is tenacious and diligent, always working for the client.’
‘Hayes Solicitors is world class. They are capable of handling complex, cross border litigation matters and are tireless and persuasive litigators. I trust partner Joe O’Malley with large and complex litigation matters.’
‘The team are friendly and approachable. Always open to listening, rather than churning out standard answers. I have now worked with a wide number of the commercial team, and have found all to be professional and reliable. Ken Casey and Patrick Scott are particularly impressive – knowledgeable, approachable and professional.’
‘Skilled practitioners with ability to communicate with lay persons to ensure complex matters understood. Ease of access with speedy responses. In particular, Jeremy Erwin and Michael Kelly have proved to be valuable partners on difficult cases and in addition proactively volunteered to present to wider team on an interesting and complex topic.’
‘Jeremy Erwin and Joe O’Malley. Very high-quality solicitors.’
‘Michael Kelly is a great lawyer. He is a pleasure to work with and is very knowledgeable. He listens to the client and gives very sound advice. Joe O’Malley is very experienced. He is very good on litigation tactics, and he always looks ahead for pitfalls.’
‘Hayes Solicitors LLP delivers an excellent all round service with top class partners supported by highly efficient and hard working associates and solicitors. Joseph O’Malley is highly-intelligent, excellent with clients and extremely hard working – the complete package. Jeremy Erwin is also highly regarded. He is tenacious and diligent, always working for the client.’
‘Hayes are immensely experienced and pragmatic, very strong with clients. Joe O’Malley and Robbie Slattery are hugely experienced, savvy, down to earth, good with client management and great with detail and complexity.’
'Jeremy is very practical and thorough, with quick turnaround times and high quality'
'David Phelan is very good with clients and does a lot of interesting media work'
'Breda is one of the best in her field.'
'Breda is absolutely fantastic. She is exceptionally good at what she does.'
'Breda is the best in the Irish market in terms of her ability and reputation, she is superb in handling a wide range of complicated employment matters.'