Kevin is the Head of our Employment Group. He has over 25 years’ experience advising corporate clients across a wide range of sectors including pharmaceutical, healthcare and life sciences, technology, financial services and insurance, transport, manufacturing, distribution and retail. He also advises statutory bodies, Governmental and public institutions, universities, cultural institutions, schools and hospitals.

Kevin advises on employment law and industrial relations matters including the employment aspects of corporate transactions and restructurings, workplace complaints and investigations, disciplinary and grievance issues, dismissals, senior executive exits, discrimination, protected disclosures/whistleblowing, pay transparency, European works councils, TUPE, health & safety, restraint of trade, trade union recognition, strikes and picketing. Kevin frequently represents clients in defending employment-related litigation before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the civil courts.  He also advises law firms in other jurisdictions on matters relating to Irish employment law.

Kevin is ranked Hall of Fame in the The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2025, and Band 1 for Employment in Chambers Europe: Europe’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2025.

Relevant Experience

  • Advising Investindustrial on its acquisition of the healthcare business of DCC plc
  • Advising I Squared Capital on the sale of Energia Group to Ardian
  • Advising Alkermes plc on the separation of its oncology business into Mural Oncology plc
  • Advising an Irish global nutrition group on TUPE and related matters in the context of an internal restructuring of its operations in Ireland
  • Advising regulated financial services providers on issues of fitness and probity relating to senior employees
  • Representing employers in the defence of criminal prosecutions relating to health & safety and investigations by the Health & Safety Authority
  • Advising public and private sector employers on crisis management issues
  • Representing a university before the Court of Justice of the European Union in a landmark claim of age and sexual orientation discrimination in relation to pension entitlements
  • Working with international law firms on various multijurisdictional employment projects