Mr Moore was chosen in June to succeed Brian O’Gorman and formally took office on 1 November.

Mr O’Gorman has returned to full-time practice as a corporate partner, having served two consecutive terms as managing partner.

Mr Moore, 44, from Cork, graduated from UCC in 1996 and holds an M Litt from TCD. He joined Arthur Cox as a trainee in 1998, left for two years to work in the corporate finance group of a leading New York firm and returned to the firm, being made a partner in 2007.

He has advised on many of the largest and most high-profile M&A deals in Irish corporate history and is recognised as one of the country’s leading corporate lawyers by each of Chambers Global/Europe, The Legal 500 and the IFLR. He specialises in corporate finance, private equity and equity capital markets. He also has an active public company advisory practice.