Education:

• BCL, University College Cork
• LLM, University College Cork
• Commercial Mediator

Professional:

• Law Society of Ireland
• Southern Law Association
• Irish Council for European Law

Background:

Elaine trained with P.J. O’Driscoll & Sons LLP, Solicitors qualifying in 1989. She is the Managing Partner.

She has wide experience of the law of commercial transactions generally with a particular interest in the role of the developer. She has represented businesses and partnerships in negotiating and concluding commercial agreements and in resolving, both through mediation and litigation, disputes that arise from such transactions.

She is consulted by clients from a range of industry sectors including: Food and Agriculture; Banking; Energy; Technology; Media.

In recent years she has also been engaged as a key advisor by many individuals and companies in the restructuring of their businesses and lending arrangements.

At the invitation of the Law Society she has lectured on Acting for a Developer.

Elaine is a member of the Cork Chamber of Commerce Economic and Enterprise Committee.

She is a member of the Steering Group of Energy Cork and is Chairman of its Finance & Investment Committee