Kevin
Gahan
Partner
Kevin is a partner in the Disputes and Investigations Group at Matheson, with a particular focus on Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency law.
Kevin has significant experience in advising insolvency practitioners in the discharge of their duties as examiners, liquidators and receivers of companies and representing financial institutions, creditor groups, and companies in connection with commercial litigation, banking disputes, security and enforcement issues and other contentious and non-contentious domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters.
Experience and Education
Kevin’s experience includes:
- Advising in examinerships, both from an examiner’s and creditor’s perspective, examples of which include Ladbrokes plc, Aer Arann, Celtic Linen, Coast / Warehouse / Karen Millen, Golden Pages, Compu B, Cara Pharmacy and the Edward Capital Group (which assets included the G Hotel in Galway) and The Workmans Club.
- Advising on complex cross-border restructurings including Weatherford International plc (the largest corporate restructuring in Ireland), Norwegian Air (and securing Chapter 15 recognition), an ad hoc creditor group in connection with an Irish scheme of arrangement and subsequent Chapter 11 of the Nordic Aviation Group, the world’s largest regional aircraft lessor, and the landmark decision in the Silverpail examinership recognising and giving the force of law in England and Wales to a scheme of arrangement in an Irish examinership post-Brexit.
- Advising in liquidations, both from a liquidator’s and creditor’s perspective, examples of which include Stobart Air, Eurofood IFSC (the Irish subsidiary of the Parmalat Group), Arcadia retail group (Topshop, Topman & Miss Selfridge), Pocket Kings and Glenbeigh Construction.
- Advising on security enforcement and receiverships, examples of which include the McConnells Advertising group of companies, Pierse Construction group, Tribune Newspapers PLC (which operated the former Sunday Tribune newspaper), Superquinn supermarket chain, the Athlone Town Centre, Sigma Telecom Limited and high-profile hotel and hospital receiverships.
- Advising financial institutions in relation to the enforcement of security, recovery of debt and enforcement options (including bankruptcy) with extensive experience in advising in connection with High Court, commercial court and appeal court proceedings and multi-jurisdictional asset tracing.
- Advising financial institutions in relation to restructuring options and consensual work outs for trading corporate borrowers, including debt for equity swaps and other consensual debt restructurings using formal insolvency processes and advising vendors and purchasers of large mortgage and asset portfolios.
- Advising on corporate governance and compliance issues, fiduciary duties, and on matters relating to the Director of Corporate Enforcement and proceedings against directors (including restriction, disqualification, fraudulent and reckless trading proceedings).
- Trinity College Dublin, LLB (Ling. Franc.) (Sch)
- University of Poitiers, France (Erasmus)
- Trinity College Dublin, LLM
- Law Society of Ireland
- Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Senior Associate Programme
- Kevin is a member of Restructuring and Insolvency Ireland and co-chairs its Law Reform sub-committee and is also a member of INSOL Europe.
- Kevin lectures and tutors on insolvency law matters on the professional practice course of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland and to professional directors for the Institute of Directors Chartered Director Programme and is a regular contributor to industry publications.
- He is a representative for restructuring and insolvency law in the Irish Government’s Ireland for Law initiative.
