Kevin is Head of our Employment Group. He has over 25 years’ experience advising domestic and international employers on all aspects of employment law, providing solution-focused advice to HR professionals, inhouse counsel and leadership teams.

Kevin’s client base includes private and listed companies across all sectors including life sciences, technology, financial services, private equity, manufacturing, food & agri and retail. He also advises public sector organisations including third level institutions, schools, hospitals, statutory bodies, semi-State companies and cultural institutions.

His advisory practice includes senior executive appointments and departures, performance and grievance management, workplace investigations, dismissals, crisis management, European works councils and health & safety. He frequently advises clients on strategic workforce initiatives, restructuring and redundancy programmes, TUPE transfers and the employment aspects of corporate transactions. Additionally, he provides guidance to companies in managing complex industrial relations issues.

On the contentious side, Kevin represents employers before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the civil courts in claims involving unfair dismissal, discrimination and equality issues, protected disclosures, restraint of trade and urgent injunctive relief.

Kevin is also a mediator, accredited by CEDR.

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