Danielle is a partner and Head of the Environment and Planning Group and is a founder member of the firm’s Food and Agribusiness Group.

Danielle has a broad-based projects and infrastructure practice. She has more than 19 years’ projects experience in Ireland, advising on the full ‘life cycle’ of largescale project delivery; securing consents, financing, constructing and operating, and on all contentious and on-contentious planning and environmental issues.

She is a Board member of Wind Energy Ireland, a Council member of the Marine Renewables Industry Association and a member of the Environmental Policy Committee of IBEC. She is a member of the Net Zero Committee of Wind Energy Ireland. She sits on the Environment and Planning Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. She is also a member of the Energy Law Group of some 500 leading lawyers in the energy sector in Europe and Africa (Arthur Cox is the sole Irish representative law firm in this network).

She is ranked as a ‘Leading Individual’ in environmental and planning law and maintains an excellent reputation as one of Ireland’s top lawyers in this space and the leading lawyer in the renewables sector in particular.  She has been centrally involved in almost all of the largest, most complex and first-of-a kind infrastructure projects in Ireland for many years, particularly in the areas of energy, renewables, food and agriculture, telecoms, manufacturing, digital infrastructure, health and education.

Relevant Experience

An example of projects and related litigation Danielle advised or is advising on include:

• 3 out of 4 of Ireland’s largest windfarms and over 120 windfarms nationwide
• Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta on what will be Ireland’s first offshore windfarm off the West Coast
• Wind Energy Ireland on planning problems and solutions
• Several of Ireland’s largest solar farms nationwide and the first solar portfolio financing deal
• Analog Devices on the judicial review challenge to its €630M IPCEI (Important Projects of Common European Interest) project
• Diageo’s €200M carbon neutral brewery in County Kildare, the first of its kind in the country
• Kilkenny Cheese’s €200M cheese manufacturing plant in County Kilkenny (successfully defending the planning permission in the Supreme Court)
• Intel on its $8 billion extension to its Leixlip facility (and the legal challenges in relation to its planning permissions)
• Ireland’s largest €500M Poolbeg Waste-to-Energy Project
• Uisce Eireann’s €4-6 billion Water Supply Project; and several other water and wastewater infrastructure projects nationwide
• Energia on its proposed hyperscale renewable energy powered data centre
• The 2x100MW Lumcloon Battery Storage Projects
• Ireland’s National Forensic Mental Health Hospital
• 7 projects in the €500 million Second Level Schools and Third Level Education PPP Programmes
• Ireland’s largest Flood Relief Scheme and several other flood relief schemes
• Dublin Airport Authority on its largest ever infrastructure application to increase passenger numbers to 40 million passengers per annum; its airport-wide Drainage project; its Customs and Border Patrol project; and its Fuel Farm facility at Dublin Airport
• The Greenlink HVDC Interconnector
• The Havfrue and Havringsten transatlantic cable projects
• The Kinsale Carbon Capture Storage
• The State on the accelerated deployment of renewable energy projects
• Strategic housing and largescale residential projects for multiple developers (including two cases referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union)