Mason Hayes Curran

What you need to know The Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (DETE) has issued a consultation on the following potential changes for limited partnerships in Ireland: Increasing the existing cap on the number of limited partners (LPs) Introducing a whitelist of safe harbour activities for limited partners, and Allowing for access to capital during the lifetime of a limited partnership Outside of traditional regulated structures in Ireland like Irish Collective Asset-management...

What you need to know Key targets: In-scope companies were required to have achieved at least 40% of non-executive director positions held by the underrepresented sex by 30 June 2026. Quantitative objectives: In-scope companies must also have set written individual quantitative objectives aimed at improving the gender balance among executive directors.

The transaction marks the end of an illustrious era of care in Mount Carmel Nursing Home under the direct stewardship of the Sisters, while successfully securing a sustainable, long-term future for the vital community facility for Roscrea. The comprehensive agreement includes the transfer of the 31-bed facility, 12 independent living units, the historic Convent building and the surrounding site.

We will host a webinar on the EU Pay Transparency Directive, in partnership with HR Path, on Wednesday 2 September from 11:00am–12:00pm, via Zoom. Our speakers will share an update on implementation in Ireland and beyond, and explore the key requirements of the Directive, providing both a legal perspective and practical guidance on communication and change management to help organisations prepare for the upcoming changes.

L-R: Partner and Chair of our Art Committee, Christine O'Donovan, with artist Silvina Sisterna We are pleased to announce Silvina Sisterna as the first recipient of our inaugural visual arts residential bursary at Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin. Silvina is an Argentinian visual artist and socially engaged practitioner based in Dublin. Her artwork explores the collective and individual experiences of migrant women from Latin America in Ireland through photography, moving images and text.

The Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Act 2025 came into force on 29 June 2026. While the Act is fundamentally a piece of employment law, which gives employees the right to request to work past their contractual retirement age up to the State pension age, its practical success hinges entirely on how it intersects with pension planning.

We acted as Irish counsel to Sixth Street, working alongside Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP on the cross-border transaction. Monument Re is a life insurance and reinsurance company focused on the acquisition and management of in-force life insurance portfolios across Europe. Sixth Street is a strategic partner to leading insurers, advising on more than $125 billion of insurance company assets and making direct investments through its global platform.

Our Intellectual Property team examines how IP enables heritage brands to engage new demographics while protecting their core asset exclusivity. What you need to know Product category: Luxury brands can protect core markets by ensuring that mass-market collaborations focus on alternative or tangential products, preserving the integrity of their core product offering.

IP STARS, published by Managing IP, is a specialist guide to intellectual property law firms and practitioners. It assesses firms and lawyers across a range of IP practice areas, including trade marks, copyright, patents and IP transactions. In the 2026 rankings, our Intellectual Property team has been ranked in Tier 1 for Trade Mark Disputes. The firm is also recommended for Copyright & Related Rights and Trade Mark Prosecution, and is ranked in Tier 2 for IP Transactions and Patent Disputes.

What you need to know It is the responsibility of an AHB’s board and / or its senior management team to ensure that AHBRA is informed promptly and kept up to date about the status of the notifiable event. If an issue arises in your AHB that is of concern, it is important to be open and transparent with AHBRA from the outset, and Every AHB should have a written policy document on how it will manage notifiable events. What constitutes a “notifiable event” for an AHB?