Our clients include the Irish State, the Department of Finance, commercial and investment banks, institutional investors, alternative lenders, borrowers including investment grade and other corporates, global accountancy firm and private banking clients.

We have acted in the most significant banking and financial services disputes before the Irish courts over the past decade, including in major enforcement proceedings arising from the financial crisis and claims arising from alleged mis-selling of financial products. We are also market leaders in the management of data disclosure exercises, delivering significant time and cost efficiencies for our clients.

We work closely with experts in our Corporate and M&A, Banking and Finance, Asset Management and Investment Funds, Insurance and Reinsurance, and Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Groups to bring clients a wealth of technical and strategic experience in the prosecution and defence of banking and financial services disputes, and the identification and management of related regulatory, commercial, contagion and reputational risks.  We also work closely with our Financial Regulatory Investigations team to advise clients on a wide range of financial regulatory and enforcement actions.

We have specialist expertise in the following areas:

• Mis-selling, mis-representation and mis-statement claims
• Contractual claims and disputes
• Mortgage and other security enforcement
• Asset tracing, recovery and protection
• Enforcement of extra-jurisdictional judgments
• Claims in relation to breach of fiduciary and other duties
• Claims arising from the insolvency of firms including termination of hedging arrangements or from defaults under structured products including CDOs, CLOs and ABS
• Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman claims
• Financial crime
• Corporate recovery, restructuring and insolvency

Relevant Experience

• Representing the Irish State in the defence of litigation arising from the establishment of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), in litigation relating to the recapitalisation and restructuring of the Irish banking sector and in litigation arising from the nationalisation and liquidation of Anglo Irish Bank
• Acting for Bank of Ireland in the successful management of litigation against Mr. Brian O’Donnell, Vico Ltd and related entities across Ireland, the UK, France and the British Virgin Islands, including high profile enforcement of security and sale of property at Gorse Hill and obtaining of Inventory Orders
• Acting for First Active plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group in defending multiple linked proceedings brought by The Cunningham Group involving claims in excess of €150 million relating to First Active’s appointment of a receiver to various companies within the group as well as recovery actions against the borrowers. The proceedings included successful applications on behalf of First Active for non-suit at the end of TCG’s evidence after which judgments in excess of €60 million were secured against various parties, as well as fixing a third party (director of TCG) with the costs of the proceedings – the first time that such a finding was made by an Irish Court
• Acting for Allied Irish Banks plc (AIB) and various other AIB entities in Commercial Court proceedings arising from the sale of AIB’s global financial services division (AIBIFS). The case is one of the first in Ireland in which a springboard injunction was granted
• Acting for IBRC (in Special Liquidation) and for the Receiver appointed to various properties in relation to Commercial Court proceedings against Cambourne Developments Ltd, Century Holdings Ltd and Peter Curistan – concerning the Parnell Centre, Dublin and Odyssey Pavilion, Belfast
• Acting for leading financial institutions in the defence of claims involving the alleged mis-selling of financial products and investments, including interest rate swaps and syndicated property investments
• Representing leading domestic and international financial institutions in litigation concerning financial products and services arising from actions and decisions of the Central Bank of Ireland and/or the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman