Damien Tansey Solicitors create five new jobs in Sligo region
IN A jobs boost for the Sligo region, Damien Tansey Solicitors has announced the creation of 5 new jobs. The new jobs are immediately available and are a mix of Solicitors, Apprentices and Executives. They are a result of the new firm’s exceptional growth trajectory over the past 12 months.
Since Damien Tansey resigned from Callan Tansey and the office he founded, his new firm founded with his son Ciaran Tansey - Damien Tansey Solicitors - has become the fastest growing law firm in Ireland. The new firm is now attracting clients from all over the country, especially those seeking out Mr Tansey’s specialist advice on aspects of medical negligence and other types of litigation.
The firm hired new personnel to its Castle Street offices at a rate of one per month during 2015. Its hirees include Michelle Quinn, Associate Solicitor. Ms Quinn has a significant litigation experience and previously worked in the medical negligence department of Arthur Cox, one of the country’s largest law firms.
Officially opened by the Minister for Justice, Damien Tansey Solicitors is already known countrywide for its medical negligence and personal injuries expertise. However, it also recently introduced a specialist corporate and banking law offering from its Sligo offices.
The firm acted as buyer’s sole legal advisor in what was one of Ireland’s largest ( on the basis of number of Irish- based employees and contractors involved) mergers & acquisitions transactions of 2015 – the management buy- out of Sligo headquartered national recruitment and HR services group Collins McNicholas. This is a game changer in terms of the specialist corporate and banking legal services now being offered out of the Sligo region and from the firm’s Castle Street offices. Ordinarily the preserve of large Dublin law firms, it is perhaps 100 years since such a significant legal transaction - in terms of the numbers of personnel involved - was run exclusively out of the offices of a Sligo- based law firm.
Ciaran Tansey, whose experience in the corporate law sector includes 8 years with A& L Goodbody and 3 years with William Fry, two of the country’s other largest law firms, is head of the firm’s Corporate Department.