Beyond Group has announced that it has recruited partner Dónall Caherty as head of a newly launched dispute team.
Beyond
Group, which owns McAlister Family Law, Beyond Corporate and Beyond
Conveyancing, has continued its strategic expansion as partner and solicitor
Dónall Caherty joins Beyond Corporate. He will head up its newly launched dispute
team.
Dónall
specialises in resolving disputes involving shareholders, partnerships,
directors’ duties, insolvency, professional negligence and reputation
protection, and obtaining and defending urgent freezing injunctions.
Highly
experienced in dealing with a broad range of commercial disputes, he has
conducted litigation in the County Court, High Court, the Technology and
Construction Court and in the Court of Appeal. In addition, he has managed
cases determined in the Irish and German Supreme Courts and had a successful
referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Dónall studied law at Queen’s University Belfast, before attending the University
of Law in Chester. He has held positions in some of Manchester’s most
prestigious law firms, latterly as a partner with international firm
Fieldfisher.
‘Since
its inception I have followed the success of Beyond Corporate with real
interest,’ said Dónall. ‘My respect for its progressive approach, its commitment
to investment and its openness around fees in a sector as traditional and
conservative as law, made joining the firm a very easy decision.
‘I
moved to the business during lockdown and the compassion and the maturity of
the way in which the Group’s senior management dealt with the challenges of
lockdown for its people across all of the businesses, without missing a beat,
only cemented further my own commitment to what the Group and Beyond Corporate
is trying to achieve.’
Group
Head, Matt Fleetwood, added: ‘After substantial growth across the businesses we
needed to refocus on growth within Beyond Corporate, and Dónall’s appointment
enables us to continue with forward momentum, empowering the business to launch
a litigation and dispute resolution offering.
‘Dónall is a natural fit for us, both as a person having the
human perspective that is important for all of our businesses and also as a
fellow professional, highly regarded and liked by clients. We have worked with
him before and are delighted to be working with him again. For the business, it
means the Beyond Corporate Law offering is significantly expanded in what is
often a business-critical area of the law.’
