Deirdre is a Chambers Band one ranked lawyer with extensive experience in commercial real estate across all asset classes and with a particular focus on data centres, offices, PRS, retail, hospitality and healthcare.

Deirdre advises clients across the full spectrum of real estate transactions including forward commitments and forward funding, portfolio and single-asset acquisitions and disposals, financing, landlord and tenant, development and asset management.   She has advised our most high profile domestic and international investors on the largest real estate investment, leasing and financing transactions of recent years and has also advised various Irish state and semi-state bodies and, currently, a G7 state.  Deirdre has, during the course of her career, headed up one of our real estate teams, has served two terms on our partnership policy committee and holds various other firm roles including pro bono partner, member of our sustainability committee and our conflicts management committee and chair of our data centre sectoral group.

Relevant Experience

Advising:

• Blackstone on acquisitions of Meta and Salesforce EMEA HQ campuses and various other office portfolio acquisitions and disposals
• Blackrock & SW3 Capital on the forward purchase of Clay Farm PRS scheme
• Cofinimmo on the sale and leaseback of the Trinity Care nursing home portfolio
• DWS on the forward purchase / acquisition of Fairway, Cheevers Court, Haliday House and Abbot Court PRS schemes
• Echelon on its data centre portfolio
• Henderson Park on the sale of George’s Quay House
• Kennedy Wilson on the sale of Shelbourne Hotel, development and leasing of Capital Dock and across its PRS platform
• Oaktree on the acquisition and management of The Square Shopping Centre and the sale of 5 Hanover Quay
• Rothesay on the financing of Dundrum Town Centre
• Spear Street Capital on the acquisition, development and leasing of Cherrywood Business Park, Belfield Office Park and Highmark
• SVP on the acquisition of Blanchardstown Shopping Centre
• Union on the acquisitions of Premier Inn Hotel and Newtown Gardens PRS scheme