Moira OHara

Summary

Moira has three interlinked specialities which reflects her broad experience and client base.

Commercial Dispute Resolution, Employment Law and Corporate.

Dispute Resolution and Employment

Moira has extensive dispute resolution experience, dealing with contract disputes, shareholder fall outs, contested wills and probates and partnership arguments and dissolutions.

She also offers a full range of employment law support from drafting contracts and standard operating practices to defending and prosecuting employment claims.

She has conducted disputes in the High Court and the London Court of International Arbitration and through formal and informal mediations and the Employment Tribunals.

Moira can provide practical and commercial advice as she runs a small commercial enterprise herself and truly understands how companies work at the coalface.

Corporate

Moira provides advice and drafts corporate and partnership documents.

As a trusted business advisor, she assists her clients in sales and purchase transactions and shareholder agreements.

She frequently works as part of a larger corporate team in transactions.

Clients

Her clients span from Hedge Funds, Family Offices and Sovereign Wealth Funds to small family run partnerships and companies and individuals, over a diverse set of industries covering hotels and the hospitality sector, the beauty industry,  insurance, healthcare, management consultancies and mobile network providers and telecoms.

Moira Advises

• Foreign and UK SMEs
• Sovereign Wealth Funds and Hedge funds
• Professional service firms
• Hospitality

Experience Highlights

• Advising on large scale redundancies
• Share purchase disputes
• Mortgage disputes
• Property development dispute acting for a charity

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Clyde & Co
• Slaughter and May
• Simmons & Simmons
• WGS

Memberships

• Employment Lawyers

Education

• London School of Economics, LLB

Other

• In her free time, Moira runs her own small SME so understands business from a practical as well as a legal perspective