Ciarán Herlihy

Ciarán is a Partner in William Fry's Banking & Financial Services Department. He advises borrowers, financial institutions and alternative lenders on a board range of transactional and advisory mandates. Ciarán has extensive experience acting on corporate finance, real estate and development finance, project finance and acquisition finance deals. Prior to re-joining William Fry in 2018, Ciarán spent a number of years with a magic circle firm in Amsterdam which included a secondment to a leading Dutch bank.

• Advised Glanbia Ireland on the establishment of the Twenty20 Beef Club in conjunction with Finance Ireland and Kepak
• Advised Eirgrid plc on its proposed 700MW Celtic Interconnection submarine power cable together with a fibreoptic link between Ireland and France, an EU Project of Common Interest as part of the European Super Grid. 
• Advised Blackpitts LP on the financing of a 202 bed hotel in Blackpitts Dublin to be operated as the first Starwood Aloft branded hotel in Ireland and the first hotel to be constructed in Dublin post the financial crisis
• Advised Technology and life science focused lenders including Silicon Valley Bank and Kreos Capital on, working capital, venture debt, senior and acquisition facilities to numerous companies in the life science and tech spheres

• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• PPP/PFI
• Project finance
• Structured finance/securitisation

• Agriculture
• Food and beverage