With a global approach to infrastructure, we have 250 experienced infrastructure lawyers based across the world’s financial hubs ready to support you, wherever you are.
We’ll be by your side for the entire project life cycle - and when you’ve got a legal team that supports you every step of the way, you’ll make the most of each opportunity. Whether you’ve a government, governmental agency, developer, sponsor, lender or fund, we’ll guide you from the first moment to the last: from transaction design, feasibility studies and bid development across all legal areas, we’ll take you step-by-step through construction, finance, corporate, real estate and planning and regulatory considerations. When operational, we’ll assist you with any M&A activity, and, if it’s needed, dispute resolution. At project maturity, we’ll help you look at repurposing.
And we won’t sit and wait for you to come to us for legal advice - we’ll be proactive, and give you strategic guidance and support that is tailored to the needs of your business. Where challenges arise in a project, we offer practical and focused advice so you can resolve problems efficiently and avoid long drawn-out processes.
Our experience covers the whole range of infrastructure project types. We can help you with social infrastructure like hospitals, prisons, schools, universities and roads or cutting-edge digital infrastructure like fibre, data centers, smart city assets and EV charging stations. The same goes for airports, ports and other complex transportation infrastructure. If you’re in logistics, we’ll support you through the unique new legislative and environmental challenges. We know that the underlying principles for making your infrastructure projects succeed are the same - whatever the asset involved.
Our Infrastructure capability in Ireland
With years of experience working on infrastructure projects, our lawyers in Ireland can provide you with advice that blends technical excellence with commercial acumen . We have been part of large projects such as transport, waste, data centers, housing, and social infrastructure (such as schools and primary care centres) and can use our experience to your benefit.
Our lawyers, advisors and consultants are experienced in all aspects of Irish Infrastructure Law. Our recent experience includes advising:
- an international global data centre REIT on all construction, infrastructure, corporate and commercial aspects of its dealings regarding its mission-critical data centre facilities that protect and ensure the continued operation of information technology infrastructure for over 900 customers
- a well-known semi-state entity, advising on all aspects of the re-development of the Alexandra Basin, a project valued at c.€500m and a strategic infrastructure development which involved an extensive range of issues concerning construction and health and safety matters and on all aspects of commercial law
- a leading international private equity investor companies in relation to stakes in two separate companies with concession rights to operate motorway toll roads in Ireland
- a leading infrastructure joint venture on the implementation of its €373m contract to operate electronic tolling on the M50 (Dublin ring motorway), advising on various significant subcontracts with key subcontractors as well as a range of other commercial and corporate issues, including Covid-19-related issues, force majeure and contract variations
- both our national and international public sector clients on their joint procurement and construction of the Celtic Interconnector, a 500kms electricity link to be established between Ireland and France
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