Rachel Shanley

EXPERTISE 

Rachel is a Dispute Resolution Partner specialising in both commercial litigation and Reputation & Information Protection law.

In the area of commercial litigation, Rachel acts on an on-going basis on behalf of various companies and financial institutions before the High Court, to include the Commercial Division, dealing with actions for specific performance, enforcement, breach of contract and injunctions. Rachel also regularly represents clients at mediation and arbitration.

In media law, Rachel has significant expertise in defamation, privacy and also in providing pre-publication advice to clients. Rachel has also been involved in several high profile media related cases to include successfully defending a client in respect of the first injunction brought under Section 33 of the Defamation Act 2009.

Rachel has expertise in reputation management acting for corporate clients in addressing issues arising from social media, disaffected employees, unhappy customers, competitors, regulatory investigations, pressure groups or sensitive litigation.

Recent Experience includes advising:

• Broadcaster: investigation by ComReg and the matter was successfully resolved
• National Broadcaster: in respect of several defamation proceedings brought by a presidential candidate.
• Top four accountancy firm: on a continuous basis in a number of matters to include regulatory investigations and eDiscovery projects.
• NAMA: in respect of several significant enforcement cases and also a significant arbitration in which we succeeded in obtaining an award from the arbitrator of a sum in excess of €20,000,000.

Representative clients include: EY, NAMA, Red Flag, RTE, Virgin Media, Mountpark Holdings, River Island