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.