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Marie O'Riordan

Partner

Marie is a Partner in our Real Estate team. She has extensive experience in all areas of commercial real estate law and commercial leases. 

Marie acts for a wide range of private and institutional investors, developers and banks in the acquisition and disposal of commercial real estate, commercial lettings, lending and property management matters. 

Marie has acted for a number of leading Irish and international investors in the acquisition and disposal of significant commercial properties, focussing in particular on the acquisition and disposal of high-value office, private rented sector (PRS) schemes and retail properties. She regularly advises clients on complex commercial leases and real estate transactions and regularly works with our banking team providing real estate support on the re-structuring/re-finance of real estate assets.  Marie is also the real estate lead in our data centre practice group and has acted for a number of leading data centre clients who have entered the Irish market.

Marie’s recent experience includes:

  • acting for the developer/landlord in an agreement for the lease of in excess of 400,000 sq ft of office space at Spencer Place, Dublin to the US cloud computing company, Salesforce, the largest ever lease deal in Ireland and in an agreement for the lease of a new hotel within the same development to leading Irish hotel chain, Dalata
  • acting on all real estate matters in connection with the acquisition of a majority interest in the former Glass Bottle Site at Poolbeg, Ringsend, Dublin
  • acting for a leading Irish residential developer in the forward sales of a number of significant PRS schemes in the Greater Dublin areas, with deals values ranging from €53.5 million to in excess of €94 million
  • acting for the seller of the €145 million PRS sale of the Prestige Porfolio to German investment fund, DWS
  • acting as the lead real estate advisor in the 2019 development finance transaction between a leading Irish developer and a syndicate of Irish banks led by the Bank of Ireland
  • acting for a US data center investment company on all real estate aspects in connection with its first data center development in Ireland at Grange Castle Business Park, Dublin 22
  • acting for a US data center developer on the acquisition of a significant development site in West Dublin for the development of its first data center in the Irish market
  • acting for an Irish developer as the lead real estate advisor in the refinance of its loans connected to significant real estate properties comprising an industrial estate, business park, commercial offices and residential developments in Dublin 15
  • acting for a leading Irish REIT in connection with a number of acquisitions, disposals and commercial leases of office/commercial space in Dublin
  • acting for a leading Irish residential developer in the acquisition of residential development sites in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Cork
  • acting for a leading global logistics company in an agreement for the lease of a new facility at Blarney Business Park in Cork and providing ongoing asset management advices to this client.

Marie O'Riordan is a "key name" - Legal 500

‘Marie O’Riordan is a standout individual, both expert and highly responsive.’ - Legal 500

Legal 500 EMEA-Leading Individual-2021

Marie O'Riordan

Partner

Marie O'Riordan

Partner

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