• Technology
• Life Sciences

• Technology
• Privacy
• Sourcing
• E-commerce Compliance
• Financial Services
• Life Sciences
• Gaming & Gambling
• Developers
• Contractors
• Engineers
• Other construction professionals

Education

• Nottingham Law School, Legal Practice Course
• Queens University Belfast, Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
• John Carroll University, American Business Studies

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ireland
• Law Society of England and Wales

• Advising Meta Ireland and WhatsApp Ireland on their B2B and B2C product terms, including developing terms for novel offerings.

• Advising AIB on a long-term remediation project arising from its compliance with the EBA Outsourcing Guidelines, including drafting template agreements and remediation addenda, reviewing and remediating outsourcing agreements and overseeing a team negotiating with the bank’s full cohort of outsourcing providers.

• Providing a contract retainer service to Biohaven Pharmaceuticals. This advice entailed advising on Biohaven’s full suite of contractual requirements, including GMP compliant manufacturing and supply agreements and associated quality agreements.

• Advising Airkit Inc, a fast-growing technology and communications company based in California, on the strategy to adopt to its worldwide customer facing suite of products terms and associated documentation, such as its master services agreement, data processing agreement and privacy notice, as well as advising on how to appropriately describe its products and services when presenting these to the market.

• Advising the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) on terms and policies arising from its public facing schemes, including developing terms and policies sustainable energy schemes such as SEAI’s new One Stop Shop and National Retrofit Schemes in line with the Government’s Climate Action Plan.

• Providing a contract retainer service to Encirc Limited, a large manufacturing and distribution business in the Food & Drink sector. This service involves providing legal support for all the clients legal requirements form advising on novel and strategically important sustainability projects to advising on supply chain agreements and route to market agreements.

• Acting as lead advisor to the General Counsel of BGO Gaming. Dermot provided a hotline service in order to deliver quick and tailored advice to the GC on material legal risk issues in critical IT and general commercial contract matters.

• Advising Irish public sector bodies (including government departments and regulators) on high profile outsourcing and concession contracts, including preparing contracts, providing associated data protection advice and advising on bidder engagement with the required contractual terms.