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Conor Hurley

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  • Conor Hurley
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  • Arthur Cox, Ten Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, D02 T380, Ireland

  • Conor Hurley resides in New York and is regarded as an expert in international tax matters, specifically those between the USA and Ireland.
    Chambers Europe: Europe’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2017

  • ‘Conor Hurley is an expert in international tax matters, particularly between the USA and Ireland… “We cannot overemphasise how important his tax advice has been to us. He kept us up-to-date on what different companies were doing and provided a high-level view of the tax landscape and its trends.”‘
    Chambers Europe 2016

  • “Conor Hurley is also recommended.”
    The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2016

  • “Conor Hurley recently transferred to the New York office, to provide hands-on advice to the firm’s US clients. His extensive cross-border experience allows him to handle large multi-jurisdictional transactions, such as advising Warner Chilcott on its acquisition by Actavis.”
    Chambers Global 2015

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    Expertise

    Conor advises on the tax aspects of a wide range of international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and information technology, financial products, repackagings and structured finance, banking, capital markets, investment funds, corporate recovery, insolvency, restructuring and other areas. Conor is also Chairman of the firm’s US Group. Prior to joining Arthur Cox, Conor was a tax partner at an international law firm in London for over 13 years.

    Experience

    A selection of deals that Conor has advised on include:

    • Acting for Actavis on its acquisition of Allergan.
    • Acting for Vodafone on the disposal of its US Group to Verizon Communications.
    • Advising Actavis on its merger with Forest Laboratories.
    • Advising Warner Chilcott Group on its merger with Actavis.
    • Acting for Canada Life on its acquisition of Irish life Insurance.
    • Advising Warner Chilcott Group on its migration to Ireland and the acquisition by it of the Global Pharmaceutical Business of Proctor & Gamble.
    • Advising global information services group Experian on the demerger from Gus Plc and public listing of Experian Group and migration of its holding company to Ireland.
    • Advising James Hardie on its migration to Ireland and the formation of a European SE as its holding company.
    • Advising Viridian Energy Group on the acquisition of Eco Wind Power Limited.
    • Advising Shire Pharmaceuticals on its corporate migration to Ireland.
    • Advising the Irish Government and Department of Finance on the creation of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), the recapitalisation of Irish banks, the taking into public ownership of Anglo Irish Bank and the liability management exercise in respect of AIB and Bank of Ireland.
    • Advising Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in Germany on its cross border merger with the Sachsen Bank in Ireland (SLBE).

    Practice Areas

    TaxInternational/ FDINorth AmericaDebt Capital MarketsStructured Finance and SecuritisationPrivate ClientCorporate Restructuring and Insolvency
    Education
    • BCL, 1981, University College, Cork
    Professional
    • Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales (non-practising), 1991
    • Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 1984
    • Admitted as Associate of the Irish Taxation Institute, 1984
    Memberships
    Conor has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in Ireland 2014 in the practice area of Tax Law. Selection to Best Laywers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than three million confidential evaluations by top attorneys.
    Authorship
    • Employment Law 2009 (Taxation Section), Tottel Publishing Ltd.

    • ‘Comparing the firm with several others in the M&A top tier, another [client] remarks: "Most large law firms provide good legal advice, however, sound commercial guidance is not always as readily available and this is the difference between this and the other firms as far as I'm concerned."’

      IFLR 1000, 2015 edition

      Although the firm is well regarded in all fields, transactional corporate work is one where it excels. “We worked on the other side to Arthur Cox and were very impressed.” says one client.

      IFLR 1000, 2014 Edition

    • Arthur Cox is widely admired for the excellent quality of its legal advice and its overall service. Considered one of the “blue bloods” of the country’s law firms.

      World Tax 2014

      Arthur Cox remains one of the premier Irish law firms, lauded for offering an exceptional quality of service across an impressively broad range of practice areas.

      IFLR 1000, 2014 Edition