Ruadhán Ó Ciaráin BL

After graduating from the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and Trinity College, Dublin, Ruadhán was sworn in as a U.S. Attorney-at-Law in the State of New York in 2011. He practised under that qualification as a solicitor with Magic Circle law firm Linklaters LLP and U.S. law firm Squire Patton Boggs LLP. During his time as a solicitor, he practised mainly in corporate law, M&A and private equity law.

Drawing on his previous experience as a commercial solicitor, Ruadhán has acted for clients predominantly in disputes relating to banking, security, company law applications, receiverships, insolvency (both personal and corporate), landlord and tenant law (both commercial and residential) and all aspects of the law relating to land and property.

The below is a selection of written judgments in which Ruadhán was successful in cases unled by a member of the Inner Bar:

Pepper Finance Corp (Ireland) DAC v Kenny & Ors. [2021] IEHC 741 (Ferriter J.)

Value: €366,410.20

Acting for the defendant, Ruadhán successfully resisted both the plaintiff’s application for summary judgment and the related action for possession of assets. Of note is that the defence was successful in part due to a novel application of the principle of consideration.

A-Data Limited v McMahon & Anor. [2020] IEHC 440 (Meenan J.)

Value: £250,175.46

Having first obtained a Mareva injunction from Pilkington J. freezing the defendant’s assets, Ruadhán advised his creditor client of its ability to defeat the proposed Personal Insolvency Arrangement. Knowing that the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 would then cease to apply and no other statutory insolvency scheme would yet be in play, Ruadhán moved first for his client in obtaining the Order Garnishee Nisi and thereby secured for his client the full value of the amount owed to them.

Skycorps Ltd v Nopsar Ltd & Noposar Ltd v Huawei Technologies (Ireland) Company Ltd & Skycorps Ltd, High Court, Unreported, 19 July 2022. [2021 174 CA] (Burns J.)

Value: N/A

On an appeal of a Circuit Court ruling pending the elevation of the dispute to the High Court, Ruadhán successfully overturned the Circuit Court Order and obtained a written judgment confirming the circumstances in which the Superior Court Rules can be applied in the Circuit Court.

Gladney v H [2019] IEHC 713 (Barrett J.)

Value: Confidential six-figure sum

Ruadhán successfully resisted an order of Garnishee which was being brought by the Revenue Commissioners, with the effect that the funds sought to be attached were instead paid to his client.

At the time of the enactment of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020, Ruadhán wrote an article expressing doubt that the ban on evictions extended to commercial properties. The article was referenced in the Business Post newspaper and is an interesting read for anyone involved in statutory interpretation.

A link to the article can be found here:

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