Expertise

Alaina is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team, specialising in complex commercial litigation, cross-border disputes, regulatory matters, and health and safety matters, including best practice advice, and related litigation. 

Her experience includes advising on shareholder and contractual disputes, asset finance enforcement, and commercial landlord and tenant matters. She also advises entities involved in HSA investigations and prosecutions, workplace fatalities, environmental and product regulation, food safety and labelling, and corporate health and safety due diligence.

Her experience extends to a range of alternative dispute resolutions forums, including mediation and arbitration.

Alaina represents a wide range of clients, including local authorities, SMEs, commercial organisations and individuals across various sectors in contentious and non-contentious matters.

Experience
  • Acting in complex shareholder, director-loan and contractual disputes for listed and privately held companies, including cross-border High Court proceedings and enforcement applications.
  • Representing an international technology distributor in expedited ICC arbitration proceedings.
  • Advising a national lending institution on a substantial portfolio of commercial and consumer asset-finance enforcement proceedings.
  • Acting for utilities and transport infrastructure operators in judicial review proceedings, HSA investigations and prosecutions, including matters arising from workplace fatalities, asbestos exposure and aviation-security regulation.
  • Advising renewable energy developers and residential property developers on power purchase disputes, planning challenges, and environmental impact assessment.
  • Providing regulatory and compliance advice to multinational consumer goods, food and beverage, retail, healthcare and manufacturing businesses on EU and ROI regulations including product and packaging regulations, food safety and allergen labelling, environmental permitting, directors’ duties and corporate health and safety due diligence.
Education
  • Law Society of Ireland, Diploma in Technology and Intellectual Property Law, 2025
  • University of Galway, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), 2018
  • University of Galway, Bachelor of Corporate Law (BCorp), 2017