EXPERTISE 

Eoghan is a Partner and Head of the EU, Competition & Procurement group in Ireland. He provides advice on all aspects of Irish and EU competition law including cartel investigations and dawn raids, merger control, abuse of a dominant position, anti-competitive agreements and EU state aid law. Eoghan also advises in relation to Irish FDI Screening and the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), public procurement law, telecoms law and regulatory law. Eoghan was previously an in-house solicitor in the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC). 

Recent Experience includes advising:

• A client in relation to a cartel investigation by the European Commission.
• A client in relation to a consumer law investigation by the CCPC.
• A client relating to an internal competition audit.
• A client relating to the application of Irish FDI Screening and FSR rules.
• Q-Park in relation to the Phase 2 CCPC merger notification in M/22/040 – Q-Park / Tazbell Services. 
• Inflexion in relation to the CCPC merger notification in M/23/059 - IFX/Blackhall Facilities Management.  
• MKS in relation to the CCPC merger notification in M/23/034 Moore Kingston Smith/Moore Ireland.  
• Chirisa in relation to the CCPC merger notification in M/23/067 – Macquarie/Viatel.  
• Shorecal in relation to the CCPC merger notification in M/24/016 – Domino’s/Shorecal. 
• CNB Investments in relation to the CCPC merger notification in M/23/023 – Compass/Glanmore.

Representative Clients include: B. Braun, Bertelsmann, BMW, Colas, Digital Manufacturing Ireland, Grosvenor, Harvey Norman, IDA Ireland, Kepak, Marks & Spencer, MBCC Costa, Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI), Tifco Hotel Group, Walmac Demolition, Zara.