Maurice O’Connor

Maurice graduated from University College Cork in 1998. He was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 2002, and has worked in a number of legal firms in Cork City and County before establishing Healy O’Connor Solicitors.

Maurice has extensive experience in general litigation and acts in a wide range of work encompassing family law, criminal law, debt collection, employment law and personal injuries law.

Maurice is also the Partner responsible for the firms Commercial Litigation advising companies on corporate and commercial disputes, including framing appropriate dispute resolution processes, be it mediation, alternative dispute resolution for contractual claims, professional indemnity and insurance claims.
In addition he specialises in providing strategic advice to the Credit Union Sector on debt recovery solutions and corporate compliance.
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Shane Healy

Shane Healy is the partner involved in Healy O’Connor’s ever expanding commercial department. His areas of expertise are in particular commercial property, tax and banking. Shane advises companies from start ups through to winding up and assists with mergers, acquisitions, franchising and insolvency.

Shane has wide experience in advising in Employment issues for both Employees and Employers. He also advises extensively in Insolvency matters for companies facing liquidation and Private Clients facing possible Bankruptcy.

Prior to establishing Healy O’Connor Solicitors Shane worked for many years in a top ten Law firm in Dublin, in two different top three Law firms in Australia and in a Commercial Law firm in Cork. Shane has a BCL and an LLB from the University College in Cork and is also a qualified tax consultant holding the AITI qualification from the Institute of Taxation in Ireland. He was entered on to the Roll of Solicitors in 2001.
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Carmel Keane

A graduate of University College Cork (B.A. Hons), University College Galway (LL.B First Class Honours) and of the prestigious post graduate University of European Law, the European University Institute, Florence (LLM, Distinction) Carmel Keane has been involved in law for eighteen years. Having worked in Legal Practice in Galway and Cork, in July 2010, she established Keane & Co., Solicitors. Due to the rapid growth and development of her Practice, in December 2011, Keane & Co merged with Healy O’ Connor, Solicitors which was similarly expanding.

Carmel has an extensive range of experience in many areas of law and her principal work includes all areas of Litigation with a particular interest in Defence Litigation. Her work in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution with a view to substantially reducing litigation costs to Clients has developed rapidly over the past number of years.

As Partner with Healy O’ Connor, Carmel heads the Private Client Department and the Department for Wills Drafting, Probate, the Administration of Estates and Wealth Management. She has advised clients widely on the distribution of property in a manner to maximise the benefits afforded and minimise the tax payable.

Carmel has been a Guest Lecturer in Law at University College Galway and has tutored trainee Solicitors both at the Law Society in Dublin and in Cork for many years and well as acted as a Mentor to Students of Law. She is a Lecturer with the Institute of Taxation also for a number of years. Carmel’s writing on European Law has been published in the Cambridge Law Journal.