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Launch your legal career with the McCann FitzGerald Graduate Traineeship.   Applications are now open. For more information, and to start your application, please visit our website here: https://lnkd.in/eceTpT_M   #Trainee #MCFTrainees #Careers #LawCareers #GradJobs #LegalCareers  

We were delighted to host a Knowledge Network seminar yesterday morning on Risk, Reputation, and Readiness in the Age of Sustainability.    Our inhouse panel of experts was made up of Éamon Ó Cuív, Ciara Ryan, Audrey Byrne and Stephen Fuller and the discussion focused on the multifaceted risks arising from the new and fast-evolving sustainability regulatory framework (including greenwashing, reputational, supply chain and broader compliance risk), the practicalities of how sustainability-related litigation might operate within the Irish legal system both now and into the future, and what good governance looks at board level when it comes to sustainability matters.   Thank you to everyone who attended for making this such an engaging and informative session.   #Sustainability #ESG #KnowledgeNetwork

The Planning and Development Bill was passed by the Oireachtas yesterday evening, 10 October 2024. This is a significant milestone for the reform of the planning system in Ireland. We have prepared a short briefing which you can access here: https://lnkd.in/ewnEcD-P If you have any questions or would like to discuss how the Bill may affect your current or future projects, please do not hesitate to contact Partners Michelle Doyle, Sinead Martyn and Brendan Slattery. #PlanningandDevelopmentBill

McCann FitzGerald is proud to support Focus Ireland by participating in Shine a Light 2024. Focus Ireland is dedicated to raising awareness and essential funds to combat homelessness. This year Helen Kilroy, Stephen Holst, Olwyn Ryan, Laura Farrell, Jenna Skinner, Nabila El-Barazi and Niamh Togher will sleep out against homelessness on 11 October 2024. If you would like to support Focus Ireland and the McCann FitzGerald team, please click here to donate: https://lnkd.in/en6MXu2F #ShineaLight #FocusIreland

Share-based remuneration has long been cited as an efficient way to attract, incentivise and retain employees and directors in a competitive employment landscape. Following a government consultation on SBR incentives, Indecon Economic Consultants considered the submissions made and evaluated policy developments in Ireland and internationally. Indecon’s report, published on 1 October 2024, contains six recommendations to the Government on the way forward for Ireland. In this short briefing, we look at the key takeaways from the report and what it might mean for SBR in the future: https://lnkd.in/ekDWcDpu #SharebasedRemuneration

We are very pleased to have acted as Irish counsel to AerCap Holdings N.V. on its inaugural benchmark Sukuk issuance of $500 million. Please read the full announcement on our website here: https://lnkd.in/ehc37uSS

In its recent decision in Case C-768/21 – Land Hessen, the CJEU has held that data protection authorities are not obliged to exercise corrective powers in all cases where an infringement of the GDPR has occurred. In this briefing we consider the key takeaways from the judgment: https://lnkd.in/ekDTWACb #dataprotection #GDPR

Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on Markets in Crypto-Assets was published in the Official Journal of the European Union in June 2023. It became applicable to issuers of asset-referenced tokens and electronic money tokens in June 2024 and will become applicable to providers of crypto asset services on 30 December 2024. Under MiCA, CASPs will require authorisation from a competent authority before providing crypto asset services in the EU. In Ireland, this means those wishing to provide crypto-asset services will be required to apply to the Central Bank of Ireland for authorisation as a CASP. Read our latest briefing here for further information: https://lnkd.in/eK4jYggw #MiCA #CASP #CryptoAssets #FinancialServicesRegulation

We are very pleased to have advised on the €330m sale of Mannok Holdings, a building materials and packaging group headquartered in Co Fermanagh, which employs 800 people, to Turkish building materials group Çimsa, a subsidiary of Sabanci Holding, a global industrial and financial conglomerate with over 60,000 employees in 14 countries and revenues of €31.5bn in 2023.    The McCann FitzGerald team was led by Gary McSharry, including Jerome Kennedy, Riccardo Savona Siemens, Ciarán Sweeney, Shane Fahy, Edel Finn and Stuart McCarron. Evercore were the Corporate Finance advisors. Read the announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eh44wBdT

Thank you to everyone who attended our side event on Competition Litigation to kick off Dublin International Disputes Week We were delighted to collaborate with the EU Bar Association, Bar of Ireland and Addleshaw Goddard LLP to present this insightful panel discussion. We are very appreciative of Michael Collins SC for expertly chairing the event. Thanks to our panellists including our partner Rosaleen Byrne, along with Mark Molyneux, Una Butler of the CCPC and Catherine Donnelly SC. #DIDW2024