Retail, leisure, hospitality and the licensed trade

Ask it the way you'd ask it across the counter.

Compton have been writing down the answers to Irish licensing questions since 2013. Sixty-two guides and notes, on getting a licence, buying one, keeping one and reviving one. Type the question you were going to ring us about.

Everything the firm has published

62 entries

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Six kinds of premises, one set of questions each.

The counts below are the firm's own published answers for each. Choose one and the search above fills in.

On the record.

Five matters the firm files under In The News on its own site, with the headlines and dates exactly as published there.

Who runs it.

Three partners, three departments. Biographies condensed from the firm's own Who we are page.

Lorraine Compton

Retail, hospitality, leisure and liquor licensing

Previously head of the Retail and Leisure Sector Group at Matheson. Chosen as Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Leisure and Licensing Law, Dublin, in 2015 and 2016. The Law Society of Ireland's nominee to the Courts Service on bringing liquor licensing applications online. Has worked on clients' shop floors to establish whether particular advice would hold up in the room.

lorraine.compton@comptonsolicitors.ie

Nicola Rooney

Head of real estate

Twenty years across commercial property, landlord and tenant, retail and leisure and liquor licensing. Acquisition, development, leasing and disposal of shopping centres, acting for international retail clients, and involved in most of the major shopping centre developments in the country over that period. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin; previously with Matheson and McCann FitzGerald.

nicola.rooney@comptonsolicitors.ie

Joy Compton

Head of corporate

Twenty years in commercial and corporate law: mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, management buyouts, restructuring and governance, plus the day to day contracts a trading business runs on. Chairperson of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. Wrote the Irish chapter of Directors' Liability and Indemnification and of the German publication Business Law in Germany. Previously with Eugene F. Collins.

joy.compton@comptonsolicitors.ie

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