Mason Hayes & Curran

In-house lawyers are more likely to include pandemics in their standard force majeure clauses following the COVID-19 crisis, a survey conducted by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran LLP has found. The survey of nearly 80 in-house lawyers from both the public and private sector shows that the

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

Business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran LLP has announced the promotion of Shane Reynolds to partner in the firm's health and prosecutions team. A specialist in the areas of criminal law, administrative law and investigations, Mr Reynolds helps organisations with regulatory prosecutions, and as a

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP has announced its support for the 2020 RDS Visual Art Awards, one of the most important platforms for visual art graduates in Ireland with a prize fund of €32,500. Now in its fourth year, the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award

Business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran LLP has announced the promotion of Jevan Neilan to partner in the firm’s privacy and data security team. Mr Neilan trained with the firm in 2010 after graduating from UCD and Trinity College Dublin and was a senior associate before his promotion.

Katie McAuliffe, senior associate at Mason Hayes & Curran, explores the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare litigation. COVID-19 has placed the world in virtual lockdown. In an effort to mitigate the spread of the virus, the Irish government introduced travel restrictions limiting travel to essenti

Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has announced the appointment of David Gunn as a partner in the firm's construction, infrastructure and utilities team. Mr Gunn specialises in project development and finance and advises developers, banks and contractors in the public sector across a range of areas inc

Real estate professionals lack clarity on how the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) assesses damages in settlements, according to a survey carried out by Mason Hayes & Curran. The business law firm surveyed over 100 real estate professionals who took part in a recent webinar, finding that 93 per

Mason Hayes & Curran has become the largest law firm in Ireland to operate as a limited liability partnership under new rules which came into effect last year. The business law firm, with 95 partners based in Dublin, was authorised by the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) to operate as

A team at Mason Hayes & Curran has developed a new online platform designed to support businesses who are adapting their operations to meet the urgent market needs created by COVID-19. The new "Co Deploy" portal was created by the business law firm as its submission to the Financial Times Innova

Plans to launch an auto-enrolment pension scheme in Ireland by 2022 "may not survive the ongoing economic fall-out from the COVID-19 crisis", Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has said. The business law firm today published the results of a survey carried out in partnership with the Irish Institute of

Wendy Hederman, partner at Mason Hayes & Curran, considers the status of "smart contracts" in Irish law. As technology develops, smart contracts are becoming technically feasible in areas such as IoT, share transfers, insurance and financial services transactions. But are “smart contracts&

In-house lawyers and HR professionals are optimistic about the re-opening of workplaces by September 2020, according to a new survey conducted by Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC). The business law firm surveyed around 300 participants in a recent webinar on the employment law and health and safety iss

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Stephen Gillick, head of the firm's pensions team, to the Pensions Council. The body was established in 2013 to advise ministers on pensions issues and has 11 members, including chairman Jim Murray and Pensions Authority chief executive Brend

Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has been named Ireland's best law firm for contentious trade mark matters for the second year in a row. The firm's intellectual property team triumphed in the Trade Mark Contentious Firm of the Year - Ireland category at the Managing IP Awards in London.