Appointments

Northern Ireland commercial law firm Tughans has announced the appointment of Julie Huddleston as a partner in the firm's finance and restructuring team. Ms Huddleston advises banks and insolvency practitioners on secured lending and corporate recovery matters.

Employment law firm GQ|Littler has announced the appointment of Alison Finn as the first senior associate in its Dublin office. Ms Finn advises on all contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, from the commencement of the employment relationship to termination.

P.A. Duffy & Co Solicitors has announced the appointment of Carla Fraser as a solicitor practising primarily in the areas of matrimonial and family law. A graduate of NUI Galway and the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queen's University Belfast, Ms Fraser has nearly a decade of experi

BHSM LLP has announced the appointment of David Sheehan as a solicitor in the firm's construction and engineering team. Mr Sheehan has experience advising on a range of construction matters, including public and private partnership, with a particular focus on development finance transactions for the

Global law firm Fieldfisher has announced the appointment of 14 new senior associates in its Dublin office. Aine Grogan, Amy McMahon, Ciara Hanratty, Aoife Stack, Eoin Ó Cuilleanáin and James Roche have been named as senior associates in the public and regulatory team.

Solicitor Judith Fitzgerald has been appointed to the board of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). Following six other appointments earlier this month, the WRC board now has a full complement of eight ordinary members.

Coleraine firm Macaulay Wray Solicitors has announced the promotion of John McCaughan to partner in the firm.

William Fry LLP has announced the appointment of Rob McDwyer as a consultant in the firm's energy and natural resources group. A seasoned practitioner with over 21 years' experience, the last 12 of which were exclusively focused on renewable energy projects, Mr McDwyer was previously based in Austra

Belfast-based Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors has announced the appointment of three new partners.  Jennifer Young, Karen Connolly and Ruth Flinn, who between them have over 45 years' experience in their specialist areas of law, have each been promoted from associate solicitor to partner.

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP (MHC) has announce the appointment of John Troute as a partner in the firm's corporate team. Mr Troute, who is based in Galway, specialises in mergers and acquisitions and has experience advising clients from set-up to exit and on all aspects of the business growth cycle

Arthur Cox has announced the appointment of Darragh Geraghty as head of its New York office and Conor McCarthy as head of its London office. Mr Geraghty, a partner in the firm's finance group, takes over the New York office from Phil Cody, who has served in the role since 2017.

Global law firm Fieldfisher has announced the promotion of nine solicitors to the rank of associate in its Dublin office. The new associates are Aisling Kiernan in real estate; Aisling McMorrow, Aisling Ray, Hannah Unger, Honor Hargaden and Maeve McNally in public and regulatory; Jamie Woodcock in c

Maura McNally SC, chair of the Bar Council, has been appointed as chair of the governing body of Atlantic Technological University (ATU). ATU will become Ireland's fourth technological university upon opening its doors in April, absorbing three existing institutes of technology: Galway-Mayo Institut

Matheson has announced the appointment of partner Shane Hogan as head of the firm's tax practice. Mr Hogan, who joined Matheson in 2000, advises international corporations doing business in and from Ireland on all aspects of corporate tax.

Professor Joan Loughrey has been appointed as head of Queen's University Belfast (QUB) School of Law. She joins QUB from the University of Leeds, where she served as interim head of the school of law from 2020 until 2021. She also served as deputy head of school there from 2013 to 2019, and as direc