John Fitzgerald joined Flynn O’Driscoll as a Partner and Head of Restructuring and Insolvency, having led the Restructuring & Insolvency team in Byrne Wallace Shields LLP.
Experience
John’s experience and focus is on advising all stakeholders in the following areas:
- Restructuring & Insolvency
- Corporate and Commercial disputes
- Property related disputes
- Planning & Environmental
- Investigations
John was previously a lead advisor in commercial property and banking transactions, and this experience provides an invaluable insight into resolving disputes in these areas.
Recent
- Advising an electrical engineering sub-contractor in relation to successful winding up petition against its main contractor and related strategies to recover debt
- Advising an Irish SME in relation to its successful SCARP in the IT/recruitment sector
- Advising a cosmetics business in relation to a successful examinership petition
- Advising a state agency in relation to the interplay between environmental law obligations and the examinership framework
- Advising a secured creditors and its appointed receivers and managers in relation to the enforcement of security for loans against consortia of investors in 4 nursing homes, and their sale as going concerns
- Advising the secured lender on its enforcement options in relation to loans to the shareholders of a major private hospital
- Project lead on several volume platforms acting for secured creditors (banks and private equity) and their appointed receivers in relation to security realisation and all ancillary litigation
- Advising a UK retailer with an Irish network of branches in relation to all aspects of its Irish restructuring
- Advising the liquidator on the cross border liquidations of Kendar Holdings Limited and MPS Global Limited
- Advising a counterparty to a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt Plc in relation to the impact of its restructuring via Chapter 11 and examinership
- Advising on several judicial reviews relating to planning decisions and the RZLT
Education
- Bachelor of Business & Legal Studies Legal Studies (Hons) - University College Dublin, 1995
- LLM (Commercial) - University College Dublin, 2001
- Diploma in Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring - The Law Society of Ireland, 2010
Memberships
- The Law Society of Ireland
- Restructuring & Insolvency Ireland
- INSOL Europe
