Dominic Conlon

Dominic heads the Corporate team at Ogier Leman, Ogier's Ireland office. He has advised many of Ireland's largest financial institutions, corporates and technology companies. He specialises in: mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance, venture capital and private equity, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, IT contracts, outsourcing and general commercial matters.

Background and experience

Dominic has worked on some of Ireland's most interesting corporate and commercial deals over the past 18 years. He has a particular interest and expertise in advising clients in the payments space.

Dominic has more 30 years' experience advising both tech service providers and tech customer clients on technology matters, from simple IT contracts/software licenses to SaaS arrangements and large-scale outsourcings.

Dominic is a member of Ogier's Technology and Web3 team and has particular expertise in the Fintech sector, having advised both financial institution technology customers on their systemically important card issuing and card acquiring contracts and arrangements and significant Fintech service providers on the development and provision of their IP, technology and services to such customers.

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, before moving to Ogier Leman, Dominic was a partner in the corporate department of A&L Goodbody, a leading Irish commercial firm, for eight years and then spent three years as the head of the Irish corporate department at the international firm Walkers.

Recent work

Dominic has advised on:

• the disposal by a shareholder of an Irish manufacturing company to a Canadian trade competitor for in excess of €11 million
• the disposal by a founding shareholder of his entire interest in a flagship Irish Fintech company for in excess of €7 million
• the acquisition by an Irish company of its joint venture partners’ interest in an Irish food processing company for in excess of €12 million
• the structuring, investment and subsequent redemption by a number of Irish corporate Finance houses of equity/loan note investments into Irish Technologies companies, such as Newswhip Media Limited
• the investment by the Cartesian Capital Group LLC of US$100 million into Aqua Comms Limited to fund the transatlantic undersea communications cable
• the disposal by a venture capital fund of its investment in an Irish technology company sold for in excess of €100 million
• the acquisition of an Irish business school by a global education group
• a multimillion euro investment by a US drinks conglomerate into an Irish spirit manufacturer
• an Irish entity on its arrangements with an internationallicensed bank to enable our client offer SEPA compliant credit and debit payment processing services to its members
• significant private equity shareholder in Covidien on Medtronic’s acquisition of Covidien by way of an Irish Scheme of Arrangement for US$49.9 billion
• US tech company on its migration to Ireland, and subsequent fundraising and IP exploitation arrangements
• Numerous venture capital investments into Irish technology companies

Admitted in:
1995 - Ireland