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Legal leaders named at Mason Hayes & Curran

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the promotion of new senior lawyers, including three new partners and seven 'of counsel'.

The promotions are in key sectors such as technology, financial services, and healthcare, and strengthen core practice areas such as dispute resolution, employment, and debt capital markets.

650 professionals

Mason Hayes & Curran is now staffed by over 650 professionals and has offices in London, New York, and San Francisco.

The newly promoted partners include Andrew Gill (debt capital markets and financial services) who advises on structured finance transactions encompassing all asset types. offering investors exposure to crypto assets. 

Gill is a graduate of University College Dublin and is a dual Irish-law and English-law qualified solicitor.

Also promoted is Conor O’Leary (dispute resolution and built environment) who is known for his work on high-value commercial disputes, particularly structural-defect litigation and advises on complex investigations, often involving cybercrime or regulatory action.

O'Leary is a graduate of UCD (BCL) and UCC (LLM) and is a member of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA).

Micheál McCarthy, a partner in the data and technology team, advises some of the world’s leading technology companies on regulatory investigations, cybersecurity, and innovation, especially novel topics at the intersection of law and new technology.

McCarthy is a graduate of Dublin City University.

The newly promoted 'of counsel' are:

• • Aimée Lenehan (medical law and healthcare teams), who has two decades of experience advising on high-stakes professional negligence claims and regulatory hearings,
  • Avril Daly (employment and technology teams) works with employers from hiring to restructuring to exit and recently advised a multi-national technology company on a large-scale redundancy, 
  • Caroline Fitzpatrick (medical law and healthcare teams), who focuses on the defence of complex clinical-negligence claims and advocates for mediation,
  • David Hickey (medical law and healthcare teams), who supports healthcare providers with medical negligence claims, inquests, and inherent-jurisdiction applications,
  • Eimear O’Brien (dispute resolution and food and beverage teams), who works mostly on intellectual property – including trademark protection, passing off, patent infringement, and defamation litigation,
  • Jane O’Neill (medical law and healthcare teams) who has a background at the Bar and frequently represents healthcare professionals at inquests, and
  • Katie McAuliffe (medical law and healthcare teams), who advises hospitals and clinicians, from inquests to clinical claims.