Conall Geraghty

Partner, Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Conall leads the Start-up and Fast Growth Companies team at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP.

He helps founders to grow businesses from the idea-stage right through to multi-million euro exits. In particular, Conall helps companies to become investor-ready (and sale-ready) by helping founders with funding and investment rounds, shareholders’ agreements, co-founder vesting arrangements, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and employee share option plans (ESOPs).

Conall aims to build long-term partnerships with clients. He has worked with some of Ireland’s most innovative technology companies since their seed and pre-seed funding rounds.

Conall regularly speaks at start-up events, including TechConnect Live 2023 and TechFoundHer.

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Ireland—Class rights—fundamentals

Practice Notes

This fundamentals note considers the rights that may attach to different classes of shares (in a company that has a share capital) and the rights that may be held by separate classes of members (of a company that does not have a share capital) and how those rights may be varied.

Ireland - Corporate

Ireland—Company capital and its maintenance

Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers the Companies Act 2014 (Ireland) (CA 2014 (IRL)) provisions and the common law rules that relate to the maintenance of a company’s share capital.

Ireland - Corporate

Ireland—Board minutes—allotment of shares

Precedents

This Precedent is a set of board minutes for a private company limited by shares, to be used when its directors are considering whether to exercise their power to allot shares. It assumes that the company will be dis-applying the pre-emption rights set out in the Companies Act 2014(IRL) (CA 2014(IRL)), which would otherwise apply to the allotment.

Ireland - Corporate