Multi-national law firm Pinsent Masons has hired intellectual-property (IP) and technology partner Maureen Daly to lead its IP team in Dublin.

She joins the firm from Beauchamps, where she has been partner and head of technology and IP for 18 years.

Daly’s expertise includes patent litigation, data privacy, enforcement of IP rights, and trademark filings and prosecutions.

Ann Lalor (head of Pinsent Masons’ Dublin office) said: “Maureen is a market leader in IP and data, and one of very few IP litigators in Ireland with a science degree and patent-litigation experience.”

‘Landmark’ work

Daly has been involved in what Pinsent Masons describes as “landmark work”, such as successfully securing a High Court injunction to block the illegal live streaming of a sporting event – the first application of its kind to be heard by the Irish court.

She is the fourth lateral partner appointment to Pinsent Masons’ Dublin office this year, following Conor Durkin, Michael Stewart and Lisa Carty.