Mary Dunne - Partner

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Mary is one of the most experienced Projects lawyers in Ireland with particular experience in PPPs. Mary drafted the Template PPP contract for Ireland and its equivalent, Standardisation of PFI Contracts, in Northern Ireland. Mary is currently assisting several EU Accession countries to draft their PPP and Procurement laws. Mary spent time on secondment to the Strategic Investment Board in Northern Ireland and was Head of Legal at the NDFA.

Key transaction experience

Mary has been involved in a significant number of the PPP deals that have been done in Ireland to date including the following:

  • Advising Ingenhoven Architekten on the UCD PPP Project
  • The Second West-link Bridge PPP Project for NTR plc in 2000/2001
  • The €300M Waterford By-Pass PPP Project for Celtic Roads Group
  • The €300M Dundalk Western By-Pass for Celtic Roads Group
  • M1 and M2 Motorways (including Westlink) in Belfast for SIB
  • The dualling of the A1 Road from Sprucefield to the NI Border for SIB
  • Social Housing Projects by Dublin City Council
  • Bundle 1 and 2 of the Schools Programme for the NDFA in 2007 (capital expenditure €55M)
  • Thornton Hall Prison Project for the NDFA in 2007 (capital expenditure €300M)
  • National Conference Centre Project on behalf of Treasury Holdings (capital expenditure €450M)
  • Pilot Schools PPP Bundle for Barclays, the senior funder
  • Cork School of Music for Barclays, the senior funder
  • Cork Municipal Waste Recovery Facility PPP Project for Cork City and County Councils from 2000 to 2005
  • Invest NI Office Headquarters PPP Project in Belfast for the Strategic Investment Board
  • Water and Waste Water PPP projects in Northern Ireland for a bidder and for the Strategic Investment Board
  • E-HR IT project for the Strategic Investment Board
  • Belfast Schools PPP project for the Strategic Investment Board
  • South East Region Integrated Waste Project for the NDFA
  • Dublin Waste to Energy Project for the NDFA.

Qualifications

  • BCL (UCD)
  • LLM, International Business Law (University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College)
  • Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1995
  • Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland in 2000
  • Admitted as a solicitor in Northern Ireland 2003

Memberships

  • Dublin Solicitors Bar Association

Recommendations

    Mary is a recommended lawyer in the "Projects, Energy and Natural Resources" chapter of Legal 500:

    [The firm] has a very strong and keen projects partner in Mary Dunne’, who joined the firm from the NDFA in 2007 and is recommended. On the PPP side, the team is acting for the funder of a short-listed bidder on bundle 2 of the €300m Schools PPP Programme.

    Mary is recommend in the "Projects" chapter of Chambers and Partners 2009:

    International clients are impressed by her ability to condense key aspects of Irish law and identify any risks on the horizon.