About Ireland - Commercial
As a commercial lawyer, you have to cover a lot of ground. Today, you might be drawing up agreements for suppliers. Tomorrow, you might be dealing with a query on intellectual property. When you're wearing so many hats, sometimes the real challenge is
simply knowing where to start. Whatever the challenge, Lexis+ Ireland - Commercial is the only place you need to look.
We address commercial contract essentials, entity-specific execution, and offer resources on IP, confidentiality, data protection.
We also provide insights on digital trade, supply, and consumer protection.
Contract
Practice notes and precedents covering contract formation, execution, interpretation and variation in Ireland to help you confidently negotiate, execute and manage robust commercial agreements.
Digital trade
Practical information on the issues and legal considerations arising for businesses trading and operating online including guidance on the legal requirements applicable to websites and online platforms.
Confidential information and intellectual property
An overview of the laws protecting confidential information and trade secrets in Ireland including practical guidance on key issues to consider when negotiating confidentiality agreements.
Key developments and horizon scanning
Our legislation, cases, initiatives and progress trackers keep you up to date with all the latest developments affecting commercial lawyers in Ireland.
Latest Ireland - Commercial News
The Council of the EU and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on a new regulation to improve cross-border enforcement of the...
MLex: TikTok's obligation to suspend transferring data to China from Europe following an order from Ireland's privacy watchdog has been suspended by...
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade held talks with European Union (EU) Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security on 16 June 2025 regarding...
Law360: On 8 May 2025, the European Commission published new lists of products potentially subject to EU rebalancing measures in retaliation to US...
Law360: A Delaware court on 6 June 2025 paused a pension fund stockholderclaim seeking documents on data privacy violations made by Meta Platforms Inc...
Latest Ireland - Commercial Practice Notes
Execution of deeds—jurisdictional guideThis guide sets out the requirements for executing deeds in various international jurisdictions. The table...
EU consumer protection cases trackerThe EU consumer protection cases tracker is intended to track key cases related to consumer law. It includes...
EU GDPR—Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs)This Practice Note discusses Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs), which are one of the mechanisms that allow for the...
EU and EEA data protection supervisory authoritiesA key objective of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the EU...
UK GDPR enforcement by the Information Commissioner’s Office—trackerThis Practice Note tracks enforcement actions in the UK by the UK Information...
Latest Ireland - Commercial Precedents
Ireland—Notice of assignment of contract—from assignor[Headed notepaper of the assignor]To: [Insert name and address of recipient (ie the other party...
Ireland—Contract review or request formThis Precedent Contract review/request form is designed to be used by staff to request a draft contract or a...
GeneralThis Precedent is a variation agreement between two parties, used to document changes to an existing contract between the same parties....
Ireland—Client letter explaining the tax covenant and the tax warranties[Law firm’s letterhead][Addressed to client]Ireland—Client letter explaining...
PurposeThis letter can be used to notify relevant information to your insurer in the event of a data security breach, whether or not that breach falls...
Featured Ireland - Commercial content
Ireland—The relationship between Irish and English contract law
Ireland—The relationship between Irish and English contract lawThis Practice Note provides an overview of the general application and interpretation...
Ireland—Executing simple contracts and deeds
Ireland—Executing simple contracts and deedsThis Practice Note summarises the law, guidance and practice relating to the execution of simple contracts...
Ireland—Third party rights—the common law doctrine of privity of contract
Ireland—Third party rights—the common law doctrine of privity of contractThis Practice Note discusses the common law doctrine of privity of contract,...
Ireland—Exclusion and limitation of liability
Ireland—Exclusion and limitation of liabilityThis Practice Note provides guidance on the common law and statutory controls affecting exclusion and...
Ireland—Assigning rights under contracts
Ireland—Assigning rights under contractsWhat is an assignment?An assignment is an immediate transfer of an existing proprietary right, vested or...
Ireland—Protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights
Ireland—Protecting and enforcing intellectual property rightsIntroductionIrish law protects a range of intellectual property (IP) rights that will be...
Smurfit Kappa-WestRock deal received clearances from many countries, still needs at least EU, Mexico approval
The required merger control clearances and non-objections in respect of the US, the UK, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia and South Africa have...
Ireland—Notice of assignment of contract—from assignee
Ireland—Notice of assignment of contract—from assigneeThis Precedent is a notice to be issued by the assignee to the original contractual counterparty...
Ireland—Sale of goods
Ireland—Sale of goodsThis Practice Note provides an overview of the law and practice relating to contracts for the sale and supply of goods. It...
EU Commission told to pay damages over illicit Facebook log-in data transfer
The Commission must pay damages to a user of its one of its websites over the transfer of personal data to the US without the necessary safeguards, EU...
Digital platforms whistleblower tools rolled out by EU Commission
Whistleblowers can provide relevant information anonymously or not, in any of the EU official languages and in any relevant format (for example,...
Meta Platforms' GDPR legal basis for training AI under scrutiny by Schrems campaign group
Meta Platforms' decision to use the General Data Protection Regulation legal basis 'legitimate interests' to process personal data to train its...
Ireland—Supply of services
Ireland—Supply of services This Practice Note provides an overview of the legislation and regulation impacting business to business (B2B) and business...
TikTok to challenge EU's 'gatekeeper' designation at 29 April 2024 court hearing
The company has already failed to suspend the application of the legislation in interim court proceedings, and now the lower-tier General Court is...
Ireland—Contract interpretation—implied terms
Ireland—Contract interpretation—implied termsThis Practice Note provides an overview of the distinction between express and implied terms and outlines...
Ireland—Execution formalities—partnerships
Ireland—Execution formalities—partnershipsThis Practice Note provides practical guidance on proper execution of simple contracts and deeds for general...
Associated legal terms
Applicable accounting standards
Companies other than small companies or medium-sized companies must state in their accounts whether or not they have been prepared in accordance with ‘applicable accounting standards’. The FRC considers that the Statements of Standard Accounting Practice (SSAPs), Financial Reporting Standards (FRS), Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (FRSSE), and FRC Abstracts issued by the FRC are 'accounting standards' for the purposes of the CA 2006.
Hearings Committee
The principal function of the Hearings Committee is to review rulings of the Executive. The Hearings Committee also hears disciplinary proceedings instituted by the Executive when the Executive considers that there has been a breach of the Code. See Sections 4(c) and 7 of the Introduction to the Code.
Media gateway
A translation unit between disparate electronic communications networks such as PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network); NGN (next-generation network); and 2G, 2.5G and 3G radio access networks. Media gateways enable multimedia communications across Next-Generation Networks over multiple transport protocols such as ATM (Asynchronous transfer mode) and IP (Internet Protocol).
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