James Sherwin – Managing Partner

About James Sherwin

Managing Partner of Sherwin O’ Riordan.

James advises companies on incorporation, shareholder structures, financing, leasing, contracting, mergers, acquisitions, and buyouts. He has participated in multi-million euro mergers and acquisitions, handling negotiations, structuring, and closings.

Leveraging his experience, James guides companies and their leaders on incorporation, dissolution, and shareholder and employment agreements. He’s also written extensively on shareholder agreement issues and employee shareholder agreement pitfalls.

With significant expertise, he tackles minority shareholder rights, non-compete agreements, restrictive covenants, and shareholder disputes.

Advising international corporate investors and multinational corporations, James handles a wide variety of transactions involving business collaborations and exclusive supply and distribution arrangements in this jurisdiction. He has significant experience in forming joint ventures and regularly advises technology and start-up companies on IP protection and all rounds and stages of investment. He has also developed expertise in confidentiality agreements, share structures, ownership and transfer of proprietary information and developments and related legal fields.

He has a BA from Trinity College Dublin (1991) and qualified as a solicitor in Ireland in 1996.

Recent Transactions

• Advised a professional services firm on exiting a commercial lease and negotiating dilapidations and schedules of work. Consequently, the client exited the lease with a reduced settlement and relocated within 3 months.
• Furthermore, we advised the Director and shareholder in a manufacturing company on a dispute with the co-founder. As a result, we successfully removed the shareholder, replacing him as a director, within 4 months, thereby allowing our client to refocus efforts on strategic growth.
• Additionally, we advised VR Retail, a high-tech start-up, on IP protection, corporate structure, employment agreements, shareholders agreement and share classes, and supplier agreements. Thus, VR Retail can focus on what they do best, knowing they have put in place the structures to protect what they have built and enable them to grow successfully.
• Moreover, we advised a leading medical device supplier on the buyout of a minority and difficult shareholder, thereby allowing our client to proceed with its expansion plans unhindered.
• We advised one of Ireland’s leading nursing home operators on the buyout of its investors at the end of the tax scheme. This included new fundraising to effect the buyout of the borrowers/tax investors pursuant to a put and call option agreement.

In the Media;

Business and Finance – 60 Seconds with James Sherwin

Law Society Gazette – New Partner Appointed