Neil Keenan

Practice Areas

Neil is a Partner in the Corporate team at Pinsent Masons Ireland LLP. He has over thirty years’ experience as a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity, corporate governance and share schemes. Neil has acted on many complex transactions in the renewable energy, technology and life sciences sectors and is a long standing member (and former Chair) of the Law Society of Ireland’s Business Law Committee and is a member of Ireland’s Company Law Review Group where he represents the Law Society of Ireland.

Neil has advised on many large, complex and high profile M&A transactions, investments and re-organisations including two separate disposals of renewable energy companies where those businesses were valued at over €1billion, a range of fundraising transactions and subsequent disposals of medical device businesses and and co-ordination of the legal work for a number of acquisitions across different jurisdictions for a technology client and a subsequent private equity investment in that client.

Neil is recognised as a thought leader on Irish company law and corporate governance and has written and lectured widely on company law and governance related topics.

Areas of expertise include:

- Mergers and Acquisitions

- Venture Capital and Private Equity

- Corporate Governance and Company Law

- Directors’ Duties

- Share based remuneration;

- Corporate re-organisations

- Restructuring

- Commercial Contracts

Career

- Partner Pinsent Masons Ireland LLP

- Partner and Head of Corporate, ByrneWallace LLP

- Partner and Managing Partner, LKG Solicitors

- Partner, Matheson

- Solicitor, McCann FitzGerald

- Chair of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland 2019 to 2021

- Former member of the Irish government’s High-Level Group on Business Regulation

- Former company secretary and President of the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Chamber of Commerce

Professional Memberships

- Member of the Irish Company Law Review Group since 2022

- Member of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland since 2006

- Member of the Institute of Directors of Ireland.

Personal

Lectures on company officers to the Law Society of Ireland’s professional practice course 1 and has lectured regularly at the Law Society of Ireland’s diploma of corporate law and governance.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Ireland