Julie Murphy-O'Connor

Practice Areas

Julie is a partner in Matheson’s Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. Julie regularly advises on fraud claims, freezing orders, injunctions, asset recovery and tracing, trust issues, directors’ duties and enforcement matters. Her practice includes high-stakes, complex Commercial Court disputes for international companies and financial institutions.

Julie was named Client Choice Award Winner for Asset Recovery (Ireland) in 2020. Julie is a strong advocate of alternative dispute resolution, which provides the means to resolve disputes in a cost-effective, time-efficient, confidential and creative manner. She is a Council member of the Irish Commercial Mediation Association. Julie is consistently ranked as one of Ireland’s top restructuring and insolvency lawyers by international legal directories. She was a council member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners from 2011 – 2014, acting as Secretary and as Chair of its Educational Sub-Committee during that period. Julie is co-author of the Commercial Litigation Association of Ireland’s Practitioners’ Guide to the Commercial Court in Ireland and of the Law Society of Ireland’s Insolvency Law text book. She is a frequent contributor to Irish and international legal publications and is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences. Julie is also a non-executive director of Coillte DAC.