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Matheson appoints ten new partners to a cohort of 96

Matheson has appointed ten new partners across 30 legal practice groups, bringing its total cohort to 96.

The new partners are:         

• Grainne Callanan (corporate)
• Geraldine Carr (employment)
• Brian Doohan (tax)
• Richard Kelly (finance and capital markets)
• Yvonne McWeeney (asset finance)
• Niamh Maher (commercial real estate)
• Mairéad Ní Ghabháin (commercial litigation and dispute resolution)
• Padraic Roche (corporate)
• Vahan Tchrakian (tax)
• Kieran Trant (corporate)

The new partners will work across the firm’s domestic and multinational clients doing business in and from Ireland.

Matheson now has six global offices, the most recent opening in Cork in September 2018, and employs over 470 legal and tax professionals.

Volatile international environment

Managing partner Michael Jackson said “In an at times volatile and uncertain international environment, we have continued to provide full service and sector specific advice to our clients, directing them on the legal and business consequences of emerging international developments including Brexit.

"Matheson is committed to ensuring that the firm provides a working environment where diversity and inclusion are positively engrained in everything we do.  45% of partners promoted over the last three years have been female and in June last year, Matheson was named the sixth most diverse law firm in Europe by The Lawyer magazine.”

Asset managers

Matheson advises seven of the top 10 global technology brands, six of the world’s 10 largest asset managers, and over half of the world’s 50 largest banks.

Matheson is headquartered in Dublin and has offices in Cork, London, New York, San Francisco and Palo Alto.