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O'Shea, Robert

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O'Shea, Robert


Firm: Matheson LLP
Position: Consultant, Corporate and Commercial
Address: 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay Dublin 2
Phone: +353 1 232 2201
Email: robert.oshea@matheson.com
Personal URL: https://www.matheson.com/our-people/profile/robert-oshea

Special Areas:

Robert O'Shea is a consultant in the Corporate department at Matheson.

He is a former member of the firm's Management Committee and was head of the Corporate Department from 2017 to 2023. Robert spent over 15 years as Head of Matheson's International Business Group where he advised many of the world's leading technology and life sciences companies on Irish corporate matters.

Robert has extensive experience in leading multi-jurisdictional transactions and has advised in relation to some of the largest inward investment and restructuring projects in Ireland. In particular he has extensive experience drafting and advising on the legal documentation associated with cross-border restructurings and inward investment projects and the complex legal issues that can arise in re-organisation projects.

He has also lectured extensively on various corporate and commercial law topics for the Law Society of Ireland, as well as at Irish universities and industry associations such as International Fiscal Association. In 2019 Robert was also appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board of the University of Galway School of Law.

Career:

Recent transactions on which Robert and his team have advised include:

Standing corporate counsel to numerous international corporations in respect of their Irish operations.

Advising Fortune 100 US corporations on group-wide international restructurings.

Representation of international corporations on their establishment in Ireland.

Substantial integration projects pre and post mergers and acquisitions for various international clients.

Ongoing strategic advice and counselling for a range of international corporations including in relation to cash and dividend repatriation strategies.

Publications:

Robert has published and presented on a variety of corporate and international business law topics both in Ireland and overseas.

Qualifications:

Harvard Law School ("Leadership in Law Firms" programme)

Qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales (non-practising)

Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland University College Galway and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (LLB)

University College Galway (BA in Legal Science and History)

Memberships:

Robert is a member of the Law Society of Ireland, the Law Society of England and Wales and an associate member of the American Bar Association (ABA).

 


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