Profile
Eamon Jones is a partner in the Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Litigation and Dispute Resolution team.
He has extensive experience in litigating commercial matters including, dealing with disputes before the Commercial Court, appeals to the Court of Appeal and ultimately to the Supreme Court.
Eamon has advised clients through complex and time-critical statutory and regulatory tribunals, and proceedings. He has represented clients in actions taken by and against regulators and advises on all aspects of white collar crime.
Eamon has particular expertise in partnership disputes.
Experience
- Acting for a large number of corporate clients in complex shareholder disputes before the Commercial Court.
- Acting for professional firms and their insurers in high-value professional negligence claims .
- Advising individuals (Senior Managers) and corporates and acting for them in regulatory investigations, to include investigations taken by the Central Bank and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement.
- Acting for professional firms and partners in sensitive partnership disputes.
- Acting for and advising export credit insurance companies in defence of credit claims.
- Acting for and advising clients concerning investigations by inspectors appointed by ministerial order.
- Acting and advising clients in criminal proceedings (white collar) taken by the Director of Public Prosecutions on behalf of the ODCE and the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau.
- Acting for corporates in Public Enquiry Tribunals.
- Acted for clients in the horse racing industry to include a long-running dispute over a 10-year period involving numerous sets of proceedings to the commercial division of the High Court, to the Court of Appeal and to ultimate success in the Supreme Court.
- Advising on shareholders disputes to include oppression of minority stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Admitted as a Solicitor in Ireland, Law Society of Ireland, 1981
- Bachelor of Law, University College Dublin
- Accredited Mediator, Irish Commercial Mediation Association
Recommendations
- Recommended for Dispute Resolution. - Legal 500 2024
- "... always available, kept me informed and their advice and knowledge and communication were excellent.’ Noted as 'other key lawyer' for Dispute Resolution.- Legal 500 2023
- Noted as 'other key lawyer' for Insurance. - Legal 500 2023
- Recommended for Insurance. - Legal 500 2022
- Recommended for Dispute Resolution. - Legal 500 2022
- Recommended for Insurance. - Legal 500 2021
- Recommended for Dispute Resolution. - Legal 500 2020
- Recommended for Insurance. - Legal 500 2020
