Frances Flynn

Frances is Of Counsel in the Restructuring and Insolvency team in Arthur Cox LLP.  She specialises in all aspects of insolvency, corporate restructuring and litigation, having advised in a number of high profile liquidations, examinerships, schemes of arrangement and receiverships on behalf of all stakeholders including companies, directors, lending institutions and creditors as well as insolvency practitioners.  

• Advised various creditors of the Norwegian group companies with respect to all aspects of the Irish examinership process.
• Advised on Irish aspects of the restructuring of Asia Pulp and Paper Group through a Scheme of Arrangement under the Irish Companies Acts.
• Advised a secured creditor, over €6 million, in relation to successfully petitioning the High Court to Maximum Media Network Limited operating under various media brands including JOE.ie into examinership.
• Advising Mallinckrodt plc and its Irish subsidiaries in relation to Irish law aspects of its ongoing Chapter 11 proceedings.
• Advising the Joint Liquidators of the Openhydro Group, an Irish manufacturer of wave energy turbines with operations in France, Scotland, Canada, Japan, Ireland and the Channel Islands.

• Restructuring and insolvency

• Accounting
• Agriculture
• Automotive
• Aviation
• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Financial services
• Fisheries and aquaculture
• Food and beverage
• Forestry
• Gaming
• Government and public policy
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Insurance
• Investment management
• Media
• Mining
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Pharma and life sciences
• Real estate
• Shipping
• Social infrastructure
• Tech and telecoms
• Tourism
• Transport
• Utilities

• Law Society of Ireland, 2011

• IWIRC Ireland (Co-founder and board member of IWIRC Ireland)
• RII

• University College Cork 2003, BCL in Law
• University College Dublin 2006, LLM in Commercial Law