In-House Lawyers

Women in-house lawyers are more concerned than their male counterparts about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and remote working on their salaries, a new survey reveals. A survey of over 100 in-house counsel by Mason Hayes & Curran LLP found that 41 per cent of women are worried about the eff

Property lawyer Sharon van Sinderen has been appointed as senior counsel at housebuilder Quintain Ireland. Ms van Sinderen joins the company from Tuath Housing Association, where she was senior solicitor, and has previously held roles with NAMA and business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran.

Independent fund depositary and oversight business INDOS Financial has announced the appointment of Elaine Breen as head of legal and compliance in Ireland. Ms Breen was previously general counsel at BlackBee Investments, an investment firm in Cork, and has held senior roles at IFG Group PLC and Wil

Solicitor Edel Coughlan has joined the legal team at the Asset Management Exchange (AMX), an institutional platform for investors and asset managers. Established by Willis Towers Watson in 2017, AMX negotiates with managers, transitions assets, provides reporting and adds an extra layer of oversight

Solicitor Yvonne Czajkowski has joined Ardmore Shipping as a senior legal associate as the Cork-based shipping company celebrates its 10th anniversary. Ardmore, now valued at nearly $150 million on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), owns and operates product and chemical tankers involved in global

Solicitor Fiona Daly has been appointed chief financial officer of Dublin-based IT company Codec. Ms Daly, who qualified as a solicitor in 2001 after training with William Fry, joined Codec as in-house legal counsel in 2002 and later served as the company's head of legal and financial.

Financial services company FinTrU has announced the appointment of Roli Shaw as general counsel and head of legal. Mr Shaw, previously head of the legal department at Citi's Belfast office, has over 17 years' experience in legal and financial services.

More than two-thirds of women in-house lawyers believe the gender pay gap is an issue in their industry, according to a new survey by Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC). The proportion has grown slightly since the law firm's previous survey a year earlier, but nearly as big a proportion of men (62 per c

Humanitarian aid agency GOAL has congratulated its general counsel, Alison Mitchell, on being the only Irish lawyer working for a non-profit to be named in a prestigious list of top in-house lawyers. Ms Mitchell is named in the The Legal 500 GC Powerlist: Ireland 2019, which was recently launched at