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Key contacts
Tax Partner: Paul Fahy
Tax Partner: Amelia O'Beirne
Tax Partner: James Somerville
Quick facts
A&L Goodbody

Consistently ranked as Tier 1 by all tax and legal directories

A&L Goodbody

Significant experience in contentious tax, tax disputes and transfer pricing

Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Tax
Transfer pricing
Firm overview

Five time winner of the International Tax Review European Tax Award for Ireland, A&L Goodbody's Tax Group provides Irish taxation advisory and transactional services to many of the world's largest corporate and financial institutions. We maintain close links with leading tax lawyers in all the major jurisdictions in order to provide a co-ordinated tax service in multi-jurisdictional transactions. This ideally positions us to advise on cross border transactions with a seamless service from negotiation to implementation.

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Key practice areas

Compliance management:

  • Business model optimisation
  • Economic modelling
  • Policy design
  • IP management
  • Technology services

Corporate tax matters:

  • Cross-border project management
  • Restructuring
  • Cost-sharing arrangements
  • APAs
  • Transactions
  • M&A
  • Environmental
  • Financial services
  • Corporate taxes
  • Technology
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Value chains

Dispute resolution:

  • Audit defence
  • Audit support
  • Competition/anti-trust cases
  • Dispute resolution
  • Pre-litigation
  • MAPs/ADRs
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Controversy management
  • State aid

Tax advisory:

  • Tax consulting
  • International tax advisory
  • US Inbound
  • US Outbound

Indirect tax:

  • VAT
  • GST
  • Customs
  • Supply chains
Key practice contacts

Paul Fahy
Tax Partner
pfahy@algoodbody.com

Amelia O’Beirne
Tax Partner
aobeirne@algoodbody.com

James Somerville
Tax Partner
jsomerville@algoodbody.com

Philip McQueston
Of Counsel - Tax
pmcqueston@algoodbody.com

Sector expertise
  • Accounting
  • Agriculture
  • Automotive
  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Fisheries and aquaculture
  • Food and beverage
  • Forestry
  • Gaming
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharma and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Shipping
  • Social infrastructure
  • Tech and telecoms
  • Tourism
  • Transport
  • Utilities
Other offices

Belfast
A&L Goodbody, 42/46 Fountain Street, Belfast, BT1 5EF, Northern Ireland
+442890314466

London
A&L Goodbody, Augustine House, Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA, United Kingdom
+44(20)73820800

New York
A&L Goodbody LLP, The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10174
+12125824499

San Francisco
A&L Goodbody LLP, 580 California Street, Suite 1200, PMB #86803, San Francisco, CA 94104, US
+14157675261

Palo Alto
A&L Goodbody LLP, 228 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, US
+14157675261

Address:
International Financial Services Centre
North Wall Quay
Dublin 1, D01H104
Tel:+353 1 649 2000 Web Address:http://www.algoodbody.com
2026 Edition
General corporate tax
Tier 1
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Transfer pricing
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Deloitte
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EY
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Matheson
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PwC
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Arthur Cox
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Overview

A&L Goodbody is a stalwart in the Irish tax market with distinction in the largest M&A transactions. The firm is also known for its activity within the financial sector, including work for investment banks, equity funds, hedge funds, and retail banks. Corporate taxation specialist Paul Fahy leads the tax department, with the support of partner James Somerville and transactions counsel Philip McQuestonCapital markets specialist Amelia O’Beirne is a prominent practitioner ably assisted by senior associate Stephen Egan. 

The firm advised Grant Thornton Ireland on the combination of its advisory and tax businesses with Grant Thornton Advisors LLC in a market pioneering file. It also advised K1 Investment Management on its takeover of MariaDB featuring a compulsory acquisition. 

Client feedback  

‘’High degree of expertise in corporate tax including investment funds and real estate.’’

’Very responsive, reliable and forward thinking. Offering solutions/alternate solutions, multi discipline.  Talented, professional staff, approachable and friendly.’’ 

Linked Reviews
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A&L Goodbody is a leader in the Irish tax market, with distinction in the largest M&A transactions. The firm is also known for its activity within the financial sector, including work for investment banks, equity funds, hedge funds and retail banks, as well as representing numerous corporate businesses. Corporate taxation specialist Paul Fahy leads the tax department, with the support of James Somerville and transactions counsel Philip McQueston.

The firm advised ABC Fitness Solutions on the acquisition of Glofox, the Irish based software provider. It also acted for the Bank of Ireland on the acquisition of the Davy Group for a value of €440 million.

Senior associates Bryan Hughes and Dearbhla O'Gorman arrived during the research period.

Client feedback

“A&L Goodbody has a strong team.”

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