Corporate Law

McCann FitzGerald partners Stephen FitzSimons and Gill Lohan provide an overview of the new Irish Corporate Governance Code. Following an earlier consultation process, Euronext Dublin has published an Irish Corporate Governance Code.

The High Court has rejected a claim by John Delaney that certain documents seized by the Director of Corporate Enforcement were subject to legal privilege. Mr Delaney asserted that 1,123 digital documents were privileged and should not form part of the ODCE’s investigation into the Football As

Irish business leaders believe that their organisations would benefit from corporate simplification, according to the findings of a survey conducted by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran LLP. The firm surveyed over 100 participants in a webinar last week, with 61 per cent stating that their

Irish companies have been given until the end of October to file annual returns which would otherwise have been due by the end of June. The Registrar of Companies had previously announced in March that all annual returns due to be filed by any company between 18 March and 30 June 2020 would be deeme

Coronavirus-related disruption at the Companies Registration Office (CRO) is having a "significant impact" on transactions, the Law Society of Ireland has said. The Law Society previously raised concerns after the government announced the CRO could only offer “limited services” to the pu

The Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners (ISIP) has called for changes to company law to support firms through the coronavirus pandemic. Chairman Des Gibney, writing to Business Minister Heather Humphreys, said the 100-day deadline for examiners should be extended, The Irish Times reports.

Mary Kiely, senior associate in the corporate and commercial team at Eversheds Sutherland, considers the challenges for companies during the coronavirus pandemic. Given the travel restrictions and physical distancing policies currently in place and the possibility, under the Health (Preservation and

ByrneWallace has announced the promotion of life sciences specialist Catherine Dowling to partner. Ms Dowling trained as a solicitor with the firm and advises Irish and international clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions, including private equity/venture capital, mergers a

Companies and industrial and provident societies (I&Ps) can file their beneficial ownership information in the new central register with effect from today. The Registrar of Beneficial Ownership (RBO) was set up under secondary legislation earlier this year to meet Ireland's obligations under EU

Changes to the way Companies House collects data on directors is severely hampering the ability of investigative and business journalists to hold businesses to account and expose frauds and crooks, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has said. Company directors are no longer required to provider