Donna O’Leary

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About Donna

Donna is an Associate in our Financial Services department and a member of our Debt Capital Markets, Structured Finance and Derivatives group.

To date, Donna has accumulated significant experience across a range of finance transactions, including international capital markets, structured finance and corporate lending. Her practice covers public and private debt capital markets (issuances of listed and unlisted debt securities) and securitisation transactions, with a particular emphasis on corporate trust and agency advice. She also assists clients on all elements of the listing of debt securities.

Donna has experience on the set up of, and issuances under, various secured repack programmes managed by the team. In this context, she has acted both on the issuer/arranger side and on the note/security trustee side. She has also led the listing approval process at Euronext Dublin, for a number of Medium-Term Note programmes and issuances under same.

Donna is a dual Irish and English law qualified solicitor. Prior to joining Mason Hayes & Curran, Donna worked in a tax firm advising on various commercial and cross border tax issues, financing and re-financing options, re-organisations, mergers and acquisitions and de-mergers.