Dentons has made two appointments at its Dublin office.

Ciara FitzGerald joins as a disputes partner from McCann FitzGerald, and Lesley Caplin joins as 'of counsel'.

This is the ninth partner appointment, following the arrival of Colm O hUiginn, David McGuinness, Michael McDonald, Ciaran O'Boyle, Karyn Harty, Siobhan Carlin, Matthew Cahill, and Niamh Keogh.

FitzGerald has expertise in complex commercial disputes and administrative law, as well as fraud and asset recovery, and multi-jurisdictional disputes.

Litigator

Caplin also joins from McCann FitzGerald, and is a commercial litigator and an expert media-defense practitioner.

Eavan Saunders (pictured) Ireland managing partner, said: “Ciara and Lesley's recruitment accelerates the development of our disputes practice, joining up with stand-out senior practitioners Karyn Harty and Gareth Steen.

“We now offer clients a premium disputes practice centred on complex mandates, often with a cross-border element, focusing on Commercial Court disputes, regulatory and investigations, fraud, high-end insolvency. restructuring and media defence.”