
Ryan Ferry
+353 1 920 1143
[email protected]
Ten Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
D02 T380
Ireland
Ryan advises clients in complex commercial and corporate disputes, across a range of industries.
Ryan advises clients in complex commercial and corporate disputes, across a wide range of industries, including the agricultural, property, pharmaceutical, fin-tech and family business sectors, with particular expertise in contract disputes, shareholder oppression actions, and on crisis, risk and reputation management. Ryan has particular expertise in fraud litigation, and is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce FraudNet. Ryan also regularly advises clients on sanctions compliance and enforcement.
Relevant Experience
- Regularly acting for a large fin-tech group in its commercial disputes, including multi-million euro arbitration proceedings.
- Acting for a multinational pharmaceutical manufacturer in judicial review proceedings against HPRA, challenging the grant of a marketing authorisation to a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer.
- Regularly acting for a large generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in its contractual and commercial disputes.
- Regularly acting for clients, across a variety of sectors, in multi-million euro shareholder disputes both at mediation and before the Commercial Court, including shareholder fraud.
- Regularly acting for a range of clients including foreign states, companies and individuals, in dealing with mutual legal assistance actions and dawn raids.
- Acting for a defendant in respect of the multi-billion euro German alleged “cum-ex” fraud investigations and prosecutions.
- Acting for defendants in respect of the multi-billion euro German alleged “Dolphin Trust” Ponzi Scheme.
- Regularly acting for clients in cyber-fraud recovery cases, including payment redirection and hacking frauds.
- Regularly acting for clients in internal fraud investigations and litigation, including employee fraud.
- Regularly acting for clients in crisis situations and injunctive proceedings, including advising a major beef processer on managing the national beef protests and the widespread blockading of meat processing factories across the state.
Endorsements
“Ryan Ferry is an extraordinarily shrewd, smart & strategic thinker. His capacity to manage a very large work load is enviable. He is deeply passionate about his work and completely outcome focussed.”
The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2022
“The partner we deal with, Ryan Ferry, gives amazing attention to our company whether it’s day, evening or night. He has a great knowledge of the Pharma and Life sciences industry that we are in. They always give a clear answer and a clear roadmap.”
The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2022
Education & Qualifications
- LLB, 2008, University of Dublin, Trinity College
- Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 2011
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