About Mary Molloy Solicitors

Company Law Where It Meets Real Life

Irish company law online is written for corporate counsel: cross-border mergers, Commercial Court oppression actions, governance updates for listed boards. That is not the company law most people live with. Ours is the minority shareholder frozen out of the family firm; the two founders who own half each and can no longer agree on anything; the director who has just opened a liquidator’s restriction letter; the volunteer running an apartment block’s management company, or a GAA club, or a community charity, discovering that good intentions come with statutory duties. Those clients need the same Companies Act the big cases use — explained plainly and applied at a scale that makes sense.

The practice is led by Richard O’Shea, a solicitor whose litigation work runs through exactly these disputes — and who holds a Diploma in Mediation from the Law Society of Ireland. In this field the credential is structural, not decorative: shareholder fights, family-company successions and apartment-block disputes are relationship disputes first, the Mediation Act 2017 obliges solicitors to advise on mediation before issuing proceedings, and the Multi-Unit Developments Act goes further still — the Circuit Court can direct OMC disputes to mediation. A mediator’s training changes how the file is run: toward the resolution that keeps the company trading, the family speaking, or the block functioning. Richard is also a TEP (Trust and Estate Practitioner), which matters most where company law meets succession — the family business passing, or failing to pass, between generations.

How We Run a Company Dispute

Documents first: the constitution, the shareholders’ agreement if one exists, the registers and minutes, the correspondence — because company disputes are decided on paper, and the paper usually already exists. Honest arithmetic second: what the claim or defence is realistically worth, what it costs to run, and whether a well-aimed letter, a mediation or a section 212 application gets you there. And the register always: filing deadlines, strike-off exposure and restoration windows are company law’s limitation periods, and the first consultation always establishes which clocks are running on you.

Our Offices

Dublin: The Ormond Building, 31-36 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7 (D07 EE37). Kilkenny: 2 Rose Inn Street (R95 W58D). Company disputes run on documents, phone and email, so we act nationwide. Call 01 5827148 or see the contact page.

Talk Through Your Company Problem

One call: your position on the documents, the realistic routes, and the clocks running on you.