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Our Banking and Financial Services Group advises all the major domestic financial institutions and many of the world's leading international banks, securities and derivatives trading houses, broker dealers, investment managers, investment funds, insurance companies and other financial services firms operating in Ireland.

We are actively involved in, and hold representative positions on, numerous trade bodies and industry organisations and have been instrumental in proposing and drafting many changes to financial services legislation.

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Banking & Finance - Ireland

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What the Team is Known For

Matheson has a formidable reputation in banking and finance. It advises many of Ireland's major retail banks and other financial institutions on all aspects of lending, investment and asset finance matters. The law firm has particular expertise in commercial real estate and development finance. It also assists lenders with the negotiation of bilateral, club deal and syndicated loan facilities. The law firm is regularly active on DCM matters, acting as issuer's counsel on a variety of bond issuances and CLOs as well as asset-backed and mortgage-backed securitisations. Matheson is further recognised as an important presence in aviation finance and has notable additional experience in major financial restructurings.

Work Highlights

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  • The team at Matheson advised PGIM Real Estate on the syndication of a facility originally provided by Wells Fargo Bank for the refinancing of loan facilities.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Patrick Molloy
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Patrick Molloy
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Patrick Molloy frequently assists with major secured credit facilities and financial restructurings. He has a particularly strong practice acting for lenders on acquisition finance mandates.
Turlough Galvin
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Turlough Galvin
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Band 1
Turlough Galvin is well placed to advise on securitisation transactions, with his DCM practice benefiting substantially from his excellent tax knowledge.

Turlough has a significant amount of experience, his advice is sound technically and his commercial awareness is a significant value-add across complex transactions.

Turlough Galvin is a true partner to our business.

Turlough is a great communicator with strong technical knowledge on complex legal matters.

Rory McPhillips
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Rory McPhillips
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Rory McPhillips has a strong asset finance practice focused on aviation matters. He frequently acts for both arrangers and borrowers on cross-border financing mandates.

Rory McPhillips is excellent.

Stuart Kennedy
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Stuart Kennedy
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Stuart Kennedy focuses on cross-border asset finance mandates. He has experience assisting with the establishment of commercial aircraft leasing platforms, as well as advising on restructuring proceedings within the aviation sector.

Stuart Kennedy is a pleasure to deal with, any query will be responded to with a high level of sophistication and commercial awareness.

He is extremely reliable and knowledgeable.

Christian Donagh
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Christian Donagh
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Christian Donagh stands out for his DCM expertise, acting on behalf of both managers and issuers. He has particular experience in green bonds and ESG-focused CLOs. He leads Matheson's derivatives group.

Christian Donagh is easy to work with, reliable, provides good advice and is commercial and collaborative.

Yvonne McWeeney
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Yvonne McWeeney
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Band 3
Yvonne McWeeney is an experienced adviser on large-scale aircraft finance deals and loan facility amendments. She regularly assists international investors.

Yvonne is very responsive and has great commercial knowledge.

Yvonne McWeeney has a great way of communicating legal matters to a non-legal professional.

David O'Mahony
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David O'Mahony
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David O'Mahony advises a range of domestic and international banks as lenders on facility agreements. He assists with acquisition finance mandates.

Dave O'Mahony is relaxed, experienced and he's just fabulous to work with.

He's so solution-oriented and his breadth of experience on capital facilities is excellent. 

David's commercial awareness is excellent and his foresight is excellent.

He is super commercially minded and always provides an excellent service.

Mairéadh Dale
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Mairéadh Dale
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Mairéadh Dale has a range of experience assisting with development and capital financing matters. She acts for a range of clients including both corporate borrowers and syndicates of lenders.

Mairéadh Dale is a real pleasure to work with; she is excellent at client management and very helpful in steering transactions to the finish line.

Mairéadh is really commercial and understands and always acts in the clients best interest.

Alan Keating
Alan Keating
Expertise Based Abroad
Alan Keating runs Matheson's New York office, where he has been based for more than a decade. He provides advice on a broad array of DCM work with a US-Irish nexus, including note issuances and securitisations.

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Banking & Finance

Patrick Molloy
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Patrick Molloy
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Band 1
David O'Mahony
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David O'Mahony
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Band 4
Mairéadh Dale
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Mairéadh Dale
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Band 4
Banking & Finance: Asset Finance

Rory McPhillips
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Rory McPhillips
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Band 2
Stuart Kennedy
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Stuart Kennedy
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Band 2
Yvonne McWeeney
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Yvonne McWeeney
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Band 3
Capital Markets: Debt

Turlough Galvin
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Turlough Galvin
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Band 1
Christian Donagh
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Christian Donagh
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Band 3
Alan Keating
Alan Keating
USA expertise based abroad