McCann Fitzgerald announces spate of appointments

McCann FitzGerald has announced the appointment of four new partners, bringing its total number to 71.

Jennifer Halpin, Stuart McCarron, Stephen Proctor and Alan Heuston have been appointed to the firm’s real estate, corporate banking, construction and tax departments respectively.

Elva Carbery has been appointed a consultant for the environment and planning department. The new partners and consultant are based at the firm’s principal office in Dublin.

Barry Devereux, managing partner at McCann FitzGerald, said: “I am delighted to announce these appointments, both from within the ranks of McCann FitzGerald and an external appointment.

“Each of the five has outstanding skill, great experience and lots of energy and ambition and will add significantly to the strength and depth of our offering to clients.”

Ms Halpin has advised on both the sell-side and buy-side of a number of large loan portfolio sale transactions.

She has extensive experience in advising on the property aspects of secured lending transactions, as well as the sale and purchase of wind farms. Jennifer specialises in advising on sales, purchases and leasing of commercial and residential properties.

Mr McCarron has specialist knowledge of commercial and corporate banking matters across a wide range of industries, with particular experience in acting for lenders and borrowers in relation to banking and debt financing, acquisition financing, mezzanine financing, property financing and syndicated lending.

Mr Proctor specialises in construction law, advising both the public and private sector on many of the most significant construction and engineering projects in Ireland over the last 10 years.

He has particular experience in the construction, operation and maintenance of large scale projects, including agri-food and drink, data centres, transport, life science, water and energy.

Mr Heuston will become partner in the firm’s Tax Group in October 2016. He is currently Director of Tax in Paddy Power Betfair Plc, responsible for managing the group’s tax affairs across multiple jurisdictions.

Mr Heuston has extensive experience in advising clients on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, restructurings, migrations, capital markets, financial products, banking, and a wide range of other international and domestic tax matters.

Ms Carbery has been appointed consultant in the firm’s Environment & Planning group. She has advised on planning and environmental aspects of projects at all stages from the pre-planning stage, planning application, construction and completion stage. She qualified with a degree in environmental science and worked with an energy provider as an environmental scientist prior to qualifying as a solicitor.