Robert O’Shea, head of the firm’s international business group, was quoted as saying in a recent article at businessandleadership.com about the moves that: “It’s responding to client needs for us. Our clients have told us over the years that having someone on the ground makes a huge difference.”
Stanley Watson, a corporate partner, will join the London office in April as managing partner. There, he will head a team of corporate and financial services lawyers that will advise international companies doing business in Ireland. For the past eight years, he has led the firm’s corporate and commercial practice.
John Ryan, an international tax adviser, will relocate to New York in June, where he will be resident tax counsel. There, he will head up a team of corporate tax attorneys focusing on U.S. companies and financial institutions doing business in Ireland.
Matheson Ormsby Prentice opened its first office in the United States 15 years ago in Palo Alto, California and is the only Irish professional services firm with a presence on both the East and West Coasts of the U.S. The expansion of its New York office will make MOP the largest Irish law firm in the U.S.