Dominic heads up Ogier’s Corporate team in Ireland. Described as “excellent” by Legal 500, Dominic has advised many of Ireland’s largest financial institutions, corporates and technology companies. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance, venture capital and private equity, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, IT contracts, outsourcing and general commercial matters.
Areas of expertise
- Aviation and Marine
- Corporate
- Employment Investment Incentive Scheme (EIIS) Services
- Energy and Natural Resources
- Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ireland
- Fund Finance
- Funds Hub
- GDPR
- Fondos de inversión
- Ireland Local Legal Services
- Legal
- Local Legal Services
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Regulatory
- Technology and Web3
Background and experience
Dominic has worked on some of Ireland’s most interesting corporate and commercial deals over the past 30 years. He has a particular interest and expertise in advising clients in the payments space.
Dominic has more than 30 years’ experience advising both tech service providers and tech customer clients on technology matters, from simple IT contracts/software licenses to SaaS arrangements and large-scale outsourcings.
Dominic is a member of Ogier’s Technology and Web3 team and has particular expertise in the Fintech sector, having advised both financial institution technology customers on their systemically important card issuing and card acquiring contracts and arrangements and significant Fintech service providers on the development and provision of their IP, technology and services to such customers.
A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, before moving to Ogier, Dominic was a partner in the corporate department of A&L Goodbody, a leading Irish commercial firm, for eight years and then spent three years as the head of the Irish corporate department at the international firm Walkers.
Recent work:
- The acquisition by Padraig Thornton Waste Disposal Limited, one of Ireland’s largest domestic and commercial waste processing and recycling groups of the Carducci / City Bin Group
- All Irish-law based advices, regarding the sale by the Amryt group, of Ireland-based commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company to Chiesi Farmaceutici’s for USD1.48B
- The sale of Glendalough Whiskey to Mark Anthony Brands International
- The sale of Framework Computer Consultants Limited (an Irish SaaS company with subsidiaries in the UK, the US and Australia) to US private equity fund Brentwood Associates
- The acquisition by Waterland Private Equity of a significant nursing / care home group in Ireland
“Dominic is a technically able lawyer, very hands-on, and just like many of his colleagues, very much ‘committed to solve’ individual problems rather than create them“
Legal 500, 2024
“He is very emotionally astute and charming – a genuinely funny guy who can inject humour to diffuse tense situations, but where needed, can hold a strong negotiation position, and stand over it convincingly, when needed.”
Legal 500, 2022
“Dominic Conlon is an excellent corporate lawyer.”
Legal 500, 2022
Admitted in:
1995 – Ireland
