Kathryn is a Partner in Matheson and is a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department providing specialist advice in connection with all aspects of litigation with a particular focus on corporate restructuring and insolvency. In particular, Kathryn provides specialist advice to financial institutions, creditor groups, receivers, examiners and companies on contentious and non-contentious corporate restructuring and insolvency matters. Kathryn regularly advises clients in relation to the enforcement of security, recovery of debt and enforcement options (including bankruptcy) with extensive experience in advising in both High Court and Commercial Court debt recovery and injunction proceedings. Kathryn is a member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners.
§ financial institutions and receivers in domestic receiverships;
§ financial institutions in relation to commercial contracts disputes;
§ Bank of Ireland Finance in relation to all matters arising out of or in connection with invoice discounting agreements, including pursuing guarantors, defending challenges to the bank’s ownership of debts and the collection process, some recent examples of which include eTeams (International) Limited, and Taserra Wine Merchants Limited;
§ Ulster Bank Ireland DAC as petitioner in the Sean Dunne Irish bankruptcy proceedings in which case the Supreme Court confirmed that it is possible for the Irish High Court to make an order adjudicating a debtor bankrupt in Ireland notwithstanding the fact that they may have already been adjudicated bankrupt in a foreign jurisdiction (other than a jurisdiction which is subject to the European Insolvency Regulation);
§ in examinerships, both from an examiner’s and creditor’s perspective, a recent example of which includes McGettigan Hotels;
§ in liquidations, both from a liquidator’s and creditor’s perspective, recent examples of which include Opsona Therapeutics Limited, and advising the liquidators appointed to Newbridge Credit Union Limited (In Liquidation), Berehaven Credit Union Limited (In Liquidation), Charleville Credit Union Limited (In Liquidation) and Rush Credit Union Limited (In Liquidation) in respect of their obligations under the Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) Act 2011, which are the only four credit unions to be wound up in Ireland;
§ in relation to section 450 schemes of arrangement, examples of which include the acquisition of Nexvet Biopharma by Zoetis, Independent News & Media plc in relation to its proposed takeover by Mediahuis N.V. and IFG public limited company in relation to its proposed takeover by SaintMichelCo Limited; and
§ in cross-border mergers under the European Communities (Cross-Border Merger) Regulations 2008, examples of which include the recent merger of STERIS Emerald IE Limited with STERIS Emerald UK Limited to assist with the redemocilliation of STERIS plc from the United Kingdom to Ireland and the recent cross-border merger of a number of entities within the Standard & Poor’s group.