Robert Dever

Across a range of industry sectors, Robert has in-depth experience in:

• Advising on tax planning and structuring of M&A transactions, including in the context of management buy-outs and venture capital transactions, and advising on all tax aspects of the acquisition/disposal and negotiation of related tax documentation.
• Advising international and domestic corporations with respect to planning and structuring of tax effective (pre and post) reorganisations, cross-border corporate mergers, voluntary strike-offs, and integration projects.
• Advising leading international corporations, particularly based in the US, on establishing operations in Ireland and providing ongoing strategic tax advice (including in relation to Irish captive finance, IP and sale structures, as well as cash and dividend repatriation strategies).
• Advising international corporations on the tax aspects of investments in energy projects (including advising on power purchase agreements and other corporate and tax documentation as part of those projects).
• Advising sellers, purchasers, developers, and financial institutions in relation to the Irish tax aspects of sales and purchases of commercial real estate in Ireland.
• Advising on the establishment of joint ventures on a multi-jurisdictional basis, with consideration of appropriate tax efficient future exit strategies
• Advising new entrants to the Irish renewables market, as well as existing market leaders, in respect of a number of high profile renewable energy projects in relation to a range of tax-related aspects, including from a tax structuring prospective.
• Advising international and domestic corporations on a wide range of employment tax related queries, including proposed redundancy arrangements, employee litigation (including settlement of same), and transfer of employees as part of a business sale.
• Advising financial institutions, corporate borrowers and asset management companies in relation to the Irish tax aspects of finance and related facilities agreements.
• Advising large corporates and SMEs on various share incentives schemes for their Irish employees.
• Advising international and domestic corporations in relation to indirect tax implications of supplies of good and services in and to Ireland.
• Advising international corporations in relation to establishing tax residency in Ireland, including providing tailored solutions to safeguard such tax residency in line with relevant business models.

• A closer look: Examining the OECD’s Pillar Two Side-by-Side Package, February 11, 2026, Eversheds Sutherland webcast

• Tax Rising Star – EMEA
  International Tax Review, 2023
• Recommended Lawyer
  Legal 500, 2024
• Highly Regarded
  International Tax Review, 2025

• Law Society of Ireland, Solicitor
• Irish Tax Institute, Chartered Tax Advisor
• Solicitors Regulation Authority (UK), Registered foreign lawyer
• Law Society of Scotland, Registered foreign lawyer

• 2004 to 2008: Trinity College Dublin - Bachelor of Laws
• 2009 – Diploma in Finance Law (Law Society of Ireland)
• 2010 -Trinity College Dublin – Master of Laws
• December 2015 – Charter Tax Advisor (Ireland)
• January 2016 – Solicitor (Law Society of Ireland)