Thérèse Rochford
Thérèse is Head of the firm’s corporate department where she manages a broad-based corporate and commercial practice. She has extensive experience of public company flotations, rights issues, placings and stock exchange compliance. Thérèse advises many of Ireland’s mineral and resource companies to whom she provides a range of corporate and commercial services.
She also advises private companies in many other sectors – including manufacturing, renewable energy, IT, food and biotechnology – on a wide range of issues such as mergers and acquisitions, MBO’s, MBI’s, raising finance and corporate governance. She also represents venture capital companies and private investment ‘business angel’ funds.
Thérèse qualified as a solicitor in 1988 and became a partner in the firm in 1997, having practised in the City of London for a number of years.
Thérèse is a member of the Executive Council of the Irish Software Association.
Practice Areas
- Corporate
- Commercial
- I.T. and Biotechnology
- Public Procurement
- Renewable Energy and Natural Resources
- Venture Capital and Private Equity
Recommendations
Recommended as a leading lawyer in Corporate/M&A, Chambers Europe – Europe's Leading Lawyers for Business (2011)
Therese Rochford is highly regarded and described as "careful and pragmatic" by sources, who add that "she knows what she is trying to achieve and makes everything fit around that".
Recommended as a leading lawyer in Corporate/Commercial, The Legal 500 (2011)
The WhitneyMoore team is noted for bringing a "wealth of expertise in pharma and healthcare".
Recommended as a leading lawyer in Corporate/M&A, Chambers Europe – Europe's Leading Lawyers for Business (2010)
Therese Rochford heads the corporate group and has a very broad practice that encompasses straightforward M&A, general corporate and commercial advisory, and capital markets work.
Recommended as a leading lawyer in Corporate/Commercial, The Legal 500 (2010)
WhitneyMoore is ‘comparable to the majors’. Team head Therese Rochford is described as ‘experienced and responsive’.
Recommended as a leading lawyer in Corporate/M&A, Chambers Europe – Europe's Leading Lawyers for Business (2009)
Commercial department head Therese Rochford represents an array of private company clients in the mining and energy sectors, and also advises on public company flotations. Clients say she is "uniformly excellent", highlighting that she spends much time in London and is “very experienced in her field.”
Recommended as a leading lawyer in Corporate/Commercial, The Legal 500 (2009)
Therese Rochford is recommended for being "knowledgeable, experienced and effective".
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