Ryan Duggan

Ryan is a Senior Associate in Ogier’s Corporate Department with over eight years’ qualified experience. Ryan works on the full suite of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, complex and contentious corporate matters, joint venture and shareholders’ agreements, partnership arrangements, group reorganisations, general company law queries (e.g., use of the summary approval procedure, capital reductions and mergers by absorptions) and commercial agreements.

Background and experience

Ryan has made a substantial impact since joining our team. His approach and work style when liaising with clients and colleagues is friendly, refreshing and collegiate. Leveraging his valuable experience and the excellent regard he has in the legal industry has been very beneficial to the supervision of more junior colleagues on the team and to getting deals done. 

Ryan also lectures and tutors on the Law Society of Ireland's Business Law and Corporate Transactions Courses as part of the Professional Practice Course (PPC) for solicitors and is admitted to the roll in England and Wales (non-practicing). Ryan also regularly publishes articles and updates on our website and external publications and has hosted presentations for entrepreneurs, including our Accelerator Series talks for start-up enterprises.

Having joined the firm in September 2023, Ryan’s recent work includes:

• Advised Pat O'Brien on the acquisition of cycle distribution business, Huet Distributors
• Advised an international group, on the sale of its specialist fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) distribution business in Ireland to a trade buyer
• Advised the shareholders of K.B. Clearances Limited, a customs clearance specialist, on its sale to Doyle Shipping Group
• Advised the sole shareholder, Edward Mulligan, on the sale of site security system solutions provider Optosafe Ireland to Orbis Protect, a leading provider of critical security services that is backed by Synova Capital
• Advised European Cargo Services in respect of its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of International Airline Marketing (Holdings) Limited. This was a significant transaction in the air cargo services sector
• Acting for various clients in respect of investment rounds (both investor and investee)

Prior to joining Ogier in September 2023, Ryan worked for over seven years as a qualified solicitor in the corporate and equity capital markets department of another international law firm in Ireland. This included working on many significant deals include the 2021 sale by FEXCO Holdings UC and the Trustees of Goodbody Employee Benefit Trust of the Goodbody group to Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c and the 2022 sale of the Killashee Hotel and Spa from Tetrarch to FBD Hotels & Resorts Group. 

Ryan studied law at University College Cork before qualifying as solicitor in 2016.

Admitted in:

Ireland – 2016

England & Wales (Non-Practicing) – 2019