Caoimhe Clarkin

Partner

Head of Litigation and Regulatory, Ireland
Member of AKD Partners's International Board

Emailcaoimhe.clarkin@akd.partners

Call+353 1 436 5483

Dublin

About

Caoimhe is a partner and the head of the litigation and regulatory practice in Ireland and advises domestic and international corporate clients on a whole spectrum of contentious and regulatory issues across a broad range sectors and in particular, consumer goods, food and retail, energy, FS and insurance.

She advises domestic and international clients on a wide range of regulatory issues including Health and Safety, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Product Safety, Recall and liability and on Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing across a number of industries. She has experience in complex, high profile cases in the Irish Commercial Court advising and representing clients in a broad range of commercial disputes including, commercial contracts, M&A disputes, product liability, mass torts (including international class actions) and professional negligence litigation.

Caoimhe also has experience in the area of domestic and international regulatory investigations, having acted for a number of Irish and international clients in investigations by various regulatory bodies in the healthcare and food sectors. She advises on internal investigations, dawn raids and statutory inquiries and advises clients on managing their relationships with Irish and International regulators.

Areas of FocusFinancial Services Insurance Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations Industrials

Professional QualificationsSolicitor regulated by the Law Society of Ireland

EXPERIENCE

Recent examples of Caoimhe's work include:

Advising Global Nutrition Group on the international product recall of contaminated high performance equine feed. Engagement with the Irish and EU regulators regarding root cause analysis and the development and implementation of a global litigation and mitigation strategy.
Advising Global Medical Device Company on the development and implementation of an EU engagement strategy and on the regulatory framework for the manufacture and export of ventilators and on the import of essential components.
Advising clients on the implementation of in-house and outsourced employee covid testing centres.
Advising international medical devices manufacturer on regulatory compliance in a sampling program for its new continuous glucose monitoring device and advising on the obsolescence of older models.
Advising a number of clients on public procurement issues and representing clients in a number of judicial review proceedings
Advising a number of clients on the development and implementation of an enhanced health & Safety strategy
Advising a global packaging company on the standing up of an internal compliance function to include a current status assessment, risk assessment and policy improvement and implementation
Advising an international facilities and catering company on the regulatory considerations for the storage, delivery and supply of food and beverage products to include compliance with Irl and EU good safety legislation and relevant ISOs.
Advising a number of clients on incident response strategies arising out of both cyber incidents and data breaches, to include regulatory engagement, customer and employee notification and the management and resolution of claims.