Firm:	William Fry LLP
Position:	Partner, Co-head of Banking & Finance
Address:	2 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2
Phone:	+353 1 489 6551
Email:	padraic.kinsella@williamfry.com
Personal URL:	https://www.williamfry.com/people/padraic-kinsella/

Special Areas:

Padraic is Co-Head of William Fry’s Banking & Finance Department. Padraic has extensive experience in acting for lenders and borrowers in relation to corporate lending, real estate finance (development and investment), acquisition finance and receivables finance.

Deals and Awards:

Recent transactions Padraic has led on the finance side include:

Acted for Hines (as lead borrower counsel) on financing the acquisition of Scape Dublin (now aparto Dublin) a 298 bed student accommodation asset in Central Dublin and, separately, its refinancing with Wells Fargo of a portfolio of student accommodation assets in Dublin comprising over 1,500 beds (Project River).
Acted for Echelon Data Centres in connection with the acquisition of a 50% stake in the business by Starwood Capital for up to €850m while simultaneously refinancing its mezzanine debt and securing €900m in senior debt from Morgan Stanley and United Overseas Bank.
Acted for Uniphar plc (as lead borrower counsel) on its €550m refinancing of the group with seven domestic and international financial institutions (awarded Deal of the Year 2023 by Finance Dublin (Refinancing Category)).
Acted for GA Development Dublin ICAV on the financing of Camden Yard, a mixed-use development located on a four acre site in Dublin’s city centre comprising over 407,300 square feet of commercial office space and 299 residential apartments.
Acted for a number UK real estate investment firms during 2024 and early 2025 in relation to their preferred equity investments in prime office and retail real estate assets in Dublin.
Acted for various Irish banks (as lead lender counsel) on a number of social housing and private rented sector development financings with leading Irish real estate developers including, most recently: (1) Dwyer Nolan Development’s 531 unit social housing development at Ballyfermot, Dublin and its 108 unit private rented sector development at Glenamuck, Dublin; and (2) Marlet Property Group’s 216 unit private rented sector development known as One Lime Street, Dublin and its 142 unit private rented sector development known as Walled Garden, Dublin.
Continuously act (as lead lender counsel) for various domestic and international financial institution lenders (on a bilateral, club and syndicated basis) on financing many of Ireland’s largest domestic and international corporate organisations and private equity sponsors including, most recently: (1) Premier Recruitment / Morgan McKinley’s refinancing with Bank of Ireland; and (2) Erisbeg’s (a leading Irish private equity fund) acquisition of Fruition IT and Fruition Consulting financed by Bank of Ireland.
Acted for the lenders (as lead lender counsel) on the development financing of over 394,000 square feet of commercial space known as Coopers Cross. Coopers Cross is a mixed use development by Kennedy Wilson comprising, over an entire city block, a development site of 5.9 acres situated within Dublin’s central business district.
Continuously act for a number of bank and non-bank invoice finance providers and large corporates on invoice discounting (recourse and non-recourse), supply chain finance, reverse invoice discounting and supplier payment facilities. Clients that Padraic regularly acts for in this space include Bank of Ireland Finance and Bibby Financial Services.