Deirdre O'Donovan

She has advised companies, individuals and public bodies on a wide range of shareholder, contractual and negligence disputes, and also has experience in contentious insurance matters.

Deirdre is also a member of our White Collar Crime & Investigations team and the Irish Chapter of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association.

Recent significant experience includes advising:

• several corporate and private clients in an investigation into an allegation of corporate wrongdoing in an Irish plc by Inspectors appointed by the High Court on foot of an application by the Corporate Enforcement Authority.
• Ireland’s largest private provider of the Mortgage-to-Rent Scheme in the defence of Commercial Court proceedings brought by a service provider.
• a stockbroking firm in defence of multiple sets of proceedings arising out of the alleged mis-selling of investments.
• AA (Alternative Advantage) plc in Commercial Court proceedings for the return of over $100m sub-custodied with Bernard Madoff.