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Private Wealth Law - Ireland

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What the Team is Known For

O'Connell Brennan is a boutique private client and tax firm that continues to earn high praise from interviewees for its work in complex estates and inheritance tax planning. The firm has significant strength in depth with a large team of well-regarded private client lawyers regularly working on international private wealth matters.

Strengths

O'Connell Brennan has experienced and articulate personnel who are very adept at complex contentious matters.

The firm has a number of recognised senior leaders in this area and is very responsive to clients. The team can deal with sophisticated business clients and understand their priorities and objectives.

The team has very considerable expertise and experience in their specialism in complex trust and probate matters.

Notable practitioners

Cormac Brennan advises on domestic and international private client matters, including tax and succession planning with cross-border elements. Brennan is well known for international asset structuring work and also handles charity law matters.
 

He is a leader in his field, very knowledgeable, strategic and thoughtful. He's empathetic in sometimes difficult situations, and I would and do highly recommend him when opportunity arises to do so.

 

Cormac Brennan offers excellent service and a very good approach with clients.

 

Cormac is a very well-regarded and knowledgeable lawyer with extensive experience in the area of private client legal advice.

Susan O'Connell handles a variety of private client matters, including cross-border mandates for personal estate and tax planning. O'Connell also acts for non-profits and donors on structuring charitable giving.
 

Susan O'Connell has an excellent ability to explain complex matters in an understandable way. She's very responsive and user-friendly.

 

Susan is exceptionally good at what she does and clients really appreciate the quality of her advice.

 

Her manner in managing sensitive and delicate private client matters for clients is exceptional.

Lydia McCormack advises on complex domestic and multi-jurisdictional tax and estate planning. McCormack also handles charity law matters and philanthropic giving.
 

Lydia is easy to work with and efficient.

Tina Quealy advises on personal capital tax and income tax matters including revenue disputes. She is rated highly for her experience in the area along with her pleasant manner.
 

Tina provides commercially focused legal advice to private clients in a straightforward and accessible way. She is a well-known expert in the area of private client legal advice.

 

Tina reads the client very well and delivers the advice at the level the client requires. This is sometimes very important for elderly clients.

 

Tina is an expert in her field who is passionate about what she does.

Tracey O'Donnell joined O'Connell Brennan in 2022 from another Dublin-based firm. Her broad private client practice involves advising clients on tax, trust and estate planning matters.
 

Tracey O'Donnell is creative, practical, ethical and careful.

Carol Hogan assists wealthy clients with personal capital and income tax matters. She is experienced in domestic and international trust and estate matters with a focus on Irish tax advice for international private wealth structures.
 

Carol is fantastic. She is commercial, reasonable, technically great and assured.

Edel Hargaden is a consultant at the firm who advises on a range of private client matters, including tax and planning, wills and succession and estate administration.
 

Edel Hargaden is very experienced, very calm and easy to deal with.

 

She's top-drawer in every dealing we have had with her.

Ranked Individuals at
O'Connell Brennan LLP

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Cormac Brennan
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Lydia McCormack
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Tina Quealy
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Tracey O'Donnell
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Edel Hargaden
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