Philip Lee LLP has announced that it plans to double the size of its corporate and M&A team over the next three years, with Eoghan Doyle set to lead the team.

The law firm with its HQ in Dubin and corporate offices in London and San Francisco says recruitment has already commenced.

Doyle, a partner with the firm, has been appointed as the new head of corporate and M&A, succeeding outgoing department head Andreas McConnell, a senior partner at the firm for the past fifteen years who remains centrally involved in the business.

The firm has experienced massive growth in recent years and currently has 10 M&A partners and a total team of 25 in corporate.

Over the next number of years, Philip Lee plans to double that to 50 and build on the momentum of the Irish M&A market and client demand for experienced and specialist transaction teams. 

As a partner for the past nine years, Doyle has worked alongside McConnell.

Doyle is co-author of one of the most watched and highly regarded M&A reports of the year, the bi-annual Philip Lee M&A Insights Guide in association with Experian.

“We have a philosophy of “Leading the Way, by building expert teams to deliver for our valued clients," Doyle said.

“Through the leadership of our partners, our teams think creatively and work collaboratively, with our clients at the core of everything we do.

“We are looking forward to continuing to invest in, and expand, our talent offering in corporate and M&A.”

Some of the firms more notable transactions in recent time include:

• Advising European Energy, an international and Danish headquartered energy company, and a new entrant to the Irish energy market (based in Cork), on a series of renewable energy deals in Ireland.
• Advising Apleona on multiple acquisitions in the facility management sector.
• Advising Ireland’s leading utility scale solar & BESS developer and IPP, Power Capital Renewable Energy on a series of M&A and funding transactions.
• Advising the senior management team of Premier Lotteries Ireland DAC in its €350m trade sale to La Francaise Des Jeux S.A.
• Advising Mainstream Renewable Power on the €1bn sale of a majority equity stake in the company to Norway-based renewable energy investment company.

Founded in 1993, Philip Lee is one of Ireland’s fastest growing commercial law firms with a total staff of 180, including 40 partners and 40 lawyers. It is the sole Irish member of the award-winning Multilaw international network of independent law firms throughout the globe.

Photo: Eoghan Doyle Head of Corporate and M&A at law firm Philip Lee