Firm:	Flynn O'Driscoll LLP
Position:	Partner
Address:	No. 1 Grants Row, Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 HX96
Phone:	+353 87 068 9317
Email:	johnfitzgerald@fod.ie
Personal URL:	https://www.fod.ie/people/john-fitzgerald

Special Areas:

Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Restructuring and Insolvency

Deals and Awards:

Advising an electrical engineering sub-contractor in relation to successful winding up petition against its main contractor and related strategies to recover debt
Advising an Irish SME in relation to its successful SCARP in the IT/recruitment sector
Advising a cosmetics business in relation to a successful examinership petition
Advising a state agency in relation to the interplay between environmental law obligations and the examinership framework
Advising a secured creditors and its appointed receivers and managers in relation to the enforcement of security for loans against consortia of investors in 4 nursing homes, and their sale as going concerns
Advising the secured lender on its enforcement options in relation to loans to the shareholders of a major private hospital
Project lead on several volume platforms acting for secured creditors (banks and private equity) and their appointed receivers in relation to security realisation and all ancillary litigation
Advising a UK retailer with an Irish network of branches in relation to all aspects of its Irish restructuring
Advising the liquidator on the cross border liquidations of Kendar Holdings Limited and MPS Global Limited
Advising a counterparty to a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt Plc in relation to the impact of its restructuring via Chapter 11 and examinership
Advising on several judicial reviews relating to planning decisions and the RZLT

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Business & Legal Studies Legal Studies (Hons) - University College Dublin, 1995
LLM (Commercial) - University College Dublin, 2001
Diploma in Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring - The Law Society of Ireland, 2010

Memberships:

The Law Society of Ireland
Restructuring & Insolvency Ireland
INSOL Europe