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Expertise

Since the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act, 1994, and the multitude of various other similar pieces of legislation recently enacted, Greg has advised directors and officers of corporations on their duties and obligations relating to money laundering issues, legal mutual requests including applications for oral examination and discovery under the Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act in civil proceedings in the US, search warrants, freezing orders and indictments. He has spoken at fraud conferences in Ireland, England, Germany, Austria, Holland and the USA. 

Experience

• Successfully negotiated a Commercial Court settlement of a large dispute between a UK bank and an Irish software service provider concerning a dispute over use of computer source code. 
• Successfully settled a High Court action wherein we represented an Irish financial institution who was being sued for alleged specific performance of a contract the result of which was that the Plaintiff did not obtain any money nor were his legal costs paid. 
• Successfully represented a US pharmaceutical company in a multi million Euro dispute which arose from contamination in Holland allegedly as a result of waste water from its plant in Ireland which had been shipped by another Irish company. The initial claim was then considerably reduced and was ultimately settled for substantially less, and High Court Orders dismissing the proceedings were subsequently made. 
• Successfully represented (with US Counsel) an Irish national in a US Federal criminal trial for alleged US securities violations which resulted in the US Department of Justice filing a Motion to Dismiss the US indictment against him with prejudice.
• Successfully trans-nationally mediated in London for an Irish company, on the largest ever settlement concerning civil proceedings in Ireland and England with the two branches of the Irish and UK Government, namely the Criminal Assets Bureau of Ireland and the Assets Recovery Agency of England (which merged in April 2008 with the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency).
• Successfully assisted an Irish Managing Director and instructed US counsel in a US Securities Exchange Commission investigation concerning Ireland on Revenue recognition issues which successfully resulted in the SEC case in the US being dismissed with prejudice.
• Successfully represented (with UK solicitors) an Irish person who was charged with alleged VAT Carousel Fraud in the United Kingdom. After a six week trial in London a jury found our client not guilty.
• Obtained the first Anton Pillar Order and Attachment and Committal Motion together with one of the first Freezing Orders out of the Commercial Court, wherein we successfully represented a large U.S. company against an individual and his company for secret profits and overcharging the supply of products to the U.S. entity.
• Successfully negotiated for a large Irish company a commercial dispute which was in the Commercial Court in which a German company claimed damages from the Irish entity for an alleged failure to fulfil obligations under a group of German contracts entered into in Germany.
• Successfully represented a world wide mining company in obtaining orders dismissing a water bottling company's claim commenced in 2000, as the delay by the plaintiff had been inordinate and that no satisfactory excuse was provided by the plaintiff for want of prosecution.
• Successfully commenced proceedings for a State company against their former IT Manager and third parties in respect of bribery, secret commissions, embezzlement and deliberate overcharging. New protocols and procedures are now in place.
• Representing a State Agency concerning misappropriation by the defendant of our client's assets and converting the said assets for its own commerical benefit and to our client's financial detriment. The case was successfully mediated.