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Nuala Clayton

Nuala Clayton

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Alicia Compton

Alicia Compton

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Our experience includes:

  • Advising market leaders in almost all industry sectors including DCC, B&Q, Marsh Ireland Ltd, CPL, Boots, Diageo, Digital Realty Trust and Smurfit Kappa Group. 
  • Representing B&Q Ireland Limited in a four-day High Court Appeal judgment which clarified the law in Ireland in relation to bonus and allowance payments.
  • Acted as Lead Counsel for Tesco during the re-tendering of its transport/distribution contract for Ireland.
  • Acted as advisor and counsel to Hasbro Inc. in its purchase of well-known Irish animation company Boulder Media.
  • Advised the AA, the UK’s largest breakdown cover organisation, on the sale of its Irish business and operations, AA Ireland Limited, to US-Irish private equity fund Carlyle Cardinal Ireland.
  • Advised on the largest real estate related transaction in the history of the Irish State, we acted for the joint venture in acquiring ownership of a number of assets that were owned and developed by Chartered Land, including Dundrum Town Centre (Ireland’s largest shopping centre).
  • Acting for Dunnes Stores in a landmark Supreme Court appeal overturning the judgment of the High Court granting damages for wrongful dismissal and in respect of personal injury.
  • Advising SOLAS and B&Q on an ongoing basis on health and safety issues.
  • Advising a number of major corporations on severance agreements with senior executives.
  • Advising a number of employers in relation to ‘team moves’ by former employees and, in one case, obtaining and executing an Anton Piller Order against former employees.

Our areas of expertise include:

  • Recruitment
  • Equality
  • Bullying and harassment
  • Disciplinary investigations and procedures
  • Employment injunction proceedings
  • Dismissals
  • Redundancy Programmes
  • Post-termination restrictive covenants
  • Employment issues in receiverships, examinerships and liquidations
  • Employee rights in business sales and outsourcings, including Transfer of Undertakings Issues
  • Industrial Relations
  • Preparing bespoke training sessions for HR personnel on specific
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