Shane Sweeney

Background

About Shane Sweeney

Shane is a partner in the firm’s Real Estate group. He advises a broad range of clients including financial institutions, semi-State bodies, insolvency practitioners, multi-national corporations, hospitals, investors, landlords and tenants. Shane has extensive experience in all facets of commercial property work in Ireland. He has vast experience in the sale and purchase of all types of real estate including individual commercial properties, portfolios of commercial properties and residential developments. He also has considerable know-how in the renewable energy sector, particularly with respect to the property aspects of wind farm developments. Shane has a broad commercial leasing practice having acted for many years as lead property counsel to the landlord in one of Dublin’s largest shopping centres, in addition to acting on the tenant side for numerous high-street retailers. He would also act extensively in office lettings for both landlords and tenants. He was integrally involved in the group's NAMA-related work, advising a number of financial institutions who transferred property-backed loans to NAMA. He has also advised lenders and insolvency practitioners in relation to enforcement and realisation of securities.