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William Fry is a leading Irish corporate law firm with over 350 legal and tax professionals and over 500 staff. With offices in Dublin, Cork, London, San Francisco and New York our specialist teams are known for the quality of our thinking and a relentless drive to find a way for our clients to succeed.

From listening closely to our clients we know that the most complex business challenges are never one-dimensional and require more than ‘text-book’ thinking. We understand that clients value a firm with the instinct to think commercially and bring incisive perspectives.

Our promise

At William Fry we bring our clients a quality of thinking that goes beyond technical excellence – an instinct for seeing what others do not.

We examine every angle to uncover opportunity hiding within complexity – with a depth of leading specialists who understand business as well as law. We are relentless in finding a way for our clients to succeed, helping them to see around corners, navigate challenges and seize opportunities. Our will to win is matched only by that of our clients. With William Fry, see all the angles.

Our purpose

Our people are driven by finding a way for our clients to succeed. This is the defining principle by which we work.

Our clients are, and always will be, at the centre of everything we do. The relationships we build, the challenges we help solve, and the value we create for our clients is what drives us.

William Fry is a full service legal and tax practice. We are also Ireland’s only representative member of Taxand, a global firm of tax advisors with more than 400 tax partners who are represented in 50 countries worldwide.

Our experience enables us to identify the critical issues which may affect your business, which allows us to anticipate and help you avoid many of the difficulties encountered by businesses seeking to set up in Ireland.

Our People

We are committed to and invest in the continuous training and professional development of our people.  We foster a culture of knowledge sharing, learning and continuous improvement.

Our Knowledge and Professional Development teams of experienced lawyers, trainers, and legal librarians are key to delivering outstanding client service.  We have extensive knowledge resources and comprehensive training programmes to develop our legal expertise and commercial awareness

Our Clients

We support our clients by providing timely and insightful updates on legal developments.  We develop and deliver regular client training such as Counsel Connect, roundtables and bespoke client training sessions.

Founded in 1847, William Fry has been serving its clients for approaching 200 years.

The 11th child of Major Oliver Fry, William Fry, the founder, was born in 1822 and upon qualifying in 1847, began practising, initially with his future brother-in-law, Edward White, from 60 Middle Abbey Street in Dublin 1. Within a few years, the firm had moved to 13 Lower Mount Street in Dublin 2, where the founder and his family lived above the business.

The firm expanded, to fully occupy 13 Lower Mount Street as well as the neighbouring Georgian building, before moving to the 1st floor of Fitzwilton House, Dublin 2, in 1980. William Fry continued to grow steadily, with its development accelerating alongside the Irish economy throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The business grew to occupy 10 floors of Fitzwilton House at which point in 2015 William Fry moved to our current Irish head office at 2 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2 in the iconic Silicon Docks district.