Gráinne
Dever
Partner
Gráinne Dever is a partner in the Disputes and Investigations Group and is also Head of the Debt and Enforcement Group (also known as AB Wolfe & Co.).
Gráinne has over 19 years’ experience in commercial litigation.
Gráinne is an experienced litigation lawyer, advising a significant practice comprising of banks, financial services institutions and corporates on all aspects of debt recovery, enforcement and related litigation. Her expertise covers a wide range of sectors both domestically and internationally.
She is well-known for handling disputes relating to enforcement of security as well as consumer lending. Her work includes securing and enforcing judgments, recovery of property, breach of contract claims and defending financial institutions from actions brought by borrowers.
Gráinne and her team are also well known for effectively and efficiently handling a high volume of litigation for their clients including large scale substitution projects following loan sales.
She is commercial and pragmatic in her approach and this combined with sophisticated technology, results in ever increasing efficiencies to improve outcomes for her clients. Gráinne and her team also draw on their expertise in related areas such as corporate restructuring and insolvency and financial regulation. They have significant experience advising in personal insolvency in particular Section 115A(9) appeals before specialist judiciary.
Gráinne is an experienced advocate and represents her clients in court regularly. She has contributed to various industry publications in the areas of mortgage litigation and enforcement. She regularly gives in-house presentations on relevant topics to banks, financial institutions and service providers.
She has lectured on enforcement at the Law Society of Ireland and has spoken at national and international conferences. Gráinne is a member of the Law Society of Ireland and a member of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association.
Experience and Education
Gráinne’s experience includes advising:
- Various loan owners and credit servicing firms on large scale substitution projects following loan sales in the Circuit Court and High Court.
- The Collector General’s office of the Revenue Commissioners on the recovery of outstanding taxes for the Central Fund.
- National and international financial institutions on the enforcement of defaulting loan portfolios.
- Asset management companies on enforcement options and on the related regulatory requirements.
- Credit unions on the appointment of receivers by way of equitable execution.
- Financial institutions in actions being taken against them by borrowers including obtaining a number of applications to dismiss frivolous and vexatious claims and Isaac Wunder Orders.
- A car finance house on breaches of Hire Purchase and PCP contracts.
- A credit servicing firm on personal insolvency and section 115A(9) appeals.
- Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland
- Admitted to the roll of solicitors in England and Wales (non-practising)
- University College Dublin – B.Comm (Hons)
- Law Society of Ireland – Diploma in Commercial Litigation
- Law Society of Ireland – Certificate in Civil Advocacy in the Higher Courts
