Catherine  O'Flynn

Partner

Catherine is Head of William Fry’s Employment & Benefits Department.

Catherine  O'Flynn

She advises on all contentious and non-contentious employment matters with a particular expertise in equality issues.  Catherine also has significant experience advising clients in relation to confidentiality, restrictive covenants and severance related matters.  Catherine has acted on behalf of a wide range of commercial clients and also regularly advises senior level executives.

Recent significant matters include advising:

  • An employer on the enforcement of restrictive covenants in an employment contract in the context of a “team move”
  • An employer in relation to employment issues arising from the Central Bank’s Fitness & Probity Regime
  • An employer in relation to the successful execution of an Anton Piller Order.

Catherine has lectured and written extensively in relation to employment law matters.  She is a committee member of the Law Society’s Employment and Equality Law Committee and of the American Chamber of Commerce Employment Law Working Group.

You can follow Catherine @WFEmploymentLaw.

 

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