Practice Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Corporate Governance & Compliance
  • Employment, Pensions & Incentives

Areas of Practice

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Corporate Governance & Compliance
  • Employment, Pensions & Incentives
  • Investing in Ireland
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WSG Leadership

  • WSG Regional Council - Member 2023-2024
  • Mergers & Acquisitions Group - Member
  • Private Equity Group - Member
  • Women's Professional Forum Group - Member

Profile

Keavy Ryan is a Partner within Corporate and M&A and specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, company law, corporate governance, and commercial and contractual arrangements. She advises leading Irish and international, public and private companies, equity funds and financial institutions, with significant operations in Ireland across a broad range of legal, regulatory, commercial and financial affairs.

Keavy also manages the firm's equity benefits group. Keavy advises on all aspects of share incentives including the treatment of share incentives in M&A transactions and corporate governance, regulatory and shareholder issues arising from the establishment and operation of share plans and executive remuneration programs.

Keavy is a member of the firm's Talent Group and is responsible for the firm's Trainee Solicitor and Intern Programme. Keavy is also a member of our German Group and is a fluent German speaker.

Keavy has significant experience as an in-house lawyer having completed secondments (once as acting general counsel) with two major multinational IT and telecommunications entities with a presence in Ireland.

Education
LL.B. Law and German, Trinity College, Dublin, 2001
LL.M. European Economic Law, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2002
Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland, 2005

Areas of Practice

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Corporate Governance & Compliance
  • Employment, Pensions & Incentives
  • Investing in Ireland

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A&L Goodbody is an Irish law firm providing expert legal advice across every aspect of business law. The Firm advises a broad domestic and international client base in both the private and public sectors, across the island of Ireland.

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