Keith Rooney BL

Keith’s practice focuses on commercial, banking and chancery law, insolvency, land/conveyancing law, the law of companies and general common law. Keith is one of the growing number of barristers specialising in the new field of Personal Insolvency Law.

Keith was called to the Bar in 2010 having studied in University College Cork and Dublin Business School. Keith is an advocate for alternative dispute resolution and is a qualified mediator. Keith regularly represents large financial institutions and private companies, as well as working with the Credit Union sector in their growing litigation needs.

Keith has designed and delivered a certificate level course in Company Law in conjunction with the Certified Public Accountants of Ireland and is a regular speaker at their Continual Professional Education courses.

• The Law of Personal Insolvency (Thomson Reuters, 2024) Rooney and Martin

• “Say Hello and Wave Goodbye – The law relating to assignments of loans” Bar Review, Volume 24, Number 3, Page 75 (June 2019)

• “Are Private Settlements Permissible within Examinership or a Personal Insolvency Process?”  Commercial Law Practitioner 2021, 28(6), 111-115

• “Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded” – Law Society Gazette, April 2012, page 12

• “Developments in the Law of Receivership” – Commercial Law Update, Bar Council CPD Programme, March 2020

• Member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association