Sean Ryan

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Sean is a Partner in our Corporate Department and is head of the Firm’s EU & Competition Law Group.

Sean is a highly experienced lawyer with over 22 years’ experience advising on EU law, EU and Irish Competition Law and merger control. He is head of the Firm’s EU & Competition Law Group which is consistently ranked in legal directories, and was the first Irish lawyer to be appointed on behalf of the Irish Competition Authority (now the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission) to act as ‘Monitoring Trustee’ (in connection with the sale of FM104) which included monitoring the sale process from competition law compliance perspective and issuing detailed compliance reports to the Authority.

Sean has been involved in and/or advised on a large proportion of the more significant merger control and/or competition investigations in Ireland over many years, and is listed in the (Eighth Edition) of ‘The Best Lawyers in Ireland’ for Competition Law. He advises on all aspects of EU and Irish competition / antitrust law, including Irish and EU merger control, competition law aspects of commercial agreements, state aid, joint ventures, pricing, refusal to supply, abuse of dominance, anti-competitive agreements, competition litigation, leniency applications, client training and compliance programs, and investigations and dawn raids.