Rory Kirrane SC

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Rory Kirrane SC is Head of the Construction, Infrastructure and Utilities Department at Mason Hayes & Curran. He also co-heads the firm's Energy team. Rory has represented numerous international clients on high value strategic projects in the Renewable Energy, Technology, and Real Estate sectors including a number of multi-billion euro investments.

He was appointed Senior Counsel by the Government of Ireland in 2020, the first occasion this position has been conferred on solicitors.

Rory has extensive experience in both contentious and non-contentious Energy and Construction issues. He is the go-to advisor for high value and strategically important developments in Ireland due to his commercial mindset.

He frequently represents clients in all forms of ADR, particularly arbitration, and has appeared before Ireland’s Commercial Court as advocate. He is widely recognised as a superb negotiator and advocate for clients. Rory has represented clients in court processes on a wide range of commercial matters and is frequently called as an expert witness.

Rory often represents major electricity generators in dispute processes under Ireland’s Single Electricity Trading and Settlement Code against the Market Operator relating to balancing market price spikes. He has secured novel and significant outcomes in favour of generators.