Jim Murphy
Partner
Practice Areas
Expertise
Jim is Head of the firm's Commercial Real Estate Group and is recognised widely as one of Ireland's leading practitioners in this area.
He has advised on many of the most significant transactions in the State in recent years. He represents banks, developers, institutions, foreign investors and state bodies. His experience has resulted in recent instructions on a wide variety of the work-outs and restructuring transactions arising from the Irish banking crisis.
Most recently he has been involved in the Group's NAMA-related work advising a number of Ireland’s leading financial institutions which are participating in the NAMA scheme on aspects of the loan, security and property positions they hold, as well as on the real estate and security aspects of enforcement and re-financing.
Directory Comments
"Practice head Jim Murphy leads on much of the firm's more prominent work, and he regularly acts for financial institutions or receivers". Chambers, 2011
Jim is recommended in The Legal 500, 2011.
Clients appreciate his "careful, calm, relaxed approach". Previously they noted that Jim "takes a commercial approach to complex matters and is calm enough to deliver under pressure". Chambers, 2010