Martin Cooney

Partner and Head of the Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Infrastructure, Construction and Energy Group, Martin advises on all aspects of construction law including both contentious and non-contentious matters. He has wide ranging experience advising on standard form contracts (including RIAI, Public Works, NEC and FIDIC) as well as negotiating and drafting bespoke contracts, professional appointments and ancillary contracts. Martin has expertise in various forms of dispute resolution having represented employers, consultants and contractors in mediations, conciliations, adjudications, expert determinations and arbitration. He is also experienced in traditional litigation having represented clients at all court levels, particularly in the Commercial Court.

Martin provides Health & Safety advice pertaining to construction and engineering projects, and has represented clients in HSA defence prosecutions.

Martin was previously a partner with a boutique law firm specialising in property and construction law; trained and worked in a large commercial Dublin law firm; and was in-house solicitor in the residential development and loan sales teams in NAMA.

Law Society of Ireland; Law Society of England and Wales; EU & International Affairs Committee (Former Chair), Law Society of Ireland; Dublin Solicitors Bar Association; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Health and Safety Lawyers Association of Ireland; Society of Construction Law