We are very pleased to announce that Caldwell & Robinson Solicitors, Karen O’Leary and Philip Gilliland have been ranked in the Chambers & Partners UK Guide 2025.

These recognitions reflect our firm’s commitment to providing legal services of the highest quality. Many thanks to our team across all our offices in Derry-Londonderry, Dublin and Belfast, for all their hard work as we continue to strive for excellence for our clients.

Gemma Boyle & Aoifé McColgan join the Corporate & Commercial team.

Philip Gilliland, Managing Partner, says “Our corporate clients require us to attract “Grade A” professional talent so that we can continue to provide solutions to their growing and complex Irish and Northern Irish challenges and opportunities. Both Gemma and Aoifé are excellent at what they do, and so I am delighted to have them as colleagues.”

The event will explore the benefits of private equity for young businesses, and the opportunities offered by the £70 million Investment Fund for Northern Ireland. This is a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs, business owners and those working in the corporate, commercial and finance spheres to connect, learn and network.

A timely update from Partner Jade O’Kane on the tax implications of the 2025 Irish Budget, including changes in capital acquisitions tax and agricultural relief.

Caldwell & Robinson are delighted to welcome David McConaghie to join our Derry-Londonderry team.

Since graduating from Cambridge University, David has practiced for over eighteen years in the North-West in residential and commercial property transactions, as well as across a full range of Private Client work, including estate planning, wills and probate.

Caldwell & Robinson are delighted to announce that Jade O’Kane is promoted to Partner, Private Client.

Jade joined the firm in 2005 as a work experience student and we are delighted to have witnessed her journey of growth and success from paralegal to trainee solicitor, to qualification, to Senior Associate and now to Partner. Since qualifying, Jade has built a well-deserved reputation for excellent customer service in residential property, wills, and estates, in both jurisdictions in Ireland.

Yesterday evening, Niamh Harkin and Aoifé McColgan from our Derry team attended the QUB Women in Law annual networking event, which saw students and legal professionals come together to discuss their experiences in the industry.

There are a number of legal issues that can present themselves upon a bereavement, which can make an already stressful and upsetting time for a family even more painful. One of the biggest sources of heartache in the wake of a loved one’s death is when the family realise that the deceased did not make a Will before they died and therefore, they died intestate.

A timely reminder from Solicitor Jade O’Kane: UK inheritance tax agricultural property relief and woodlands relief will be limited to UK land from 2024.

We were delighted to celebrate International Women’s Day at The Law Society of Northern Ireland with Legal Women UK, Donaghey & Chance and Lady Chief Justice, The Right Honourable Dame Siobhan Keegan.

The specialist family law team in Caldwell & Robinson Solicitors, recognised as the premier all-Ireland complex divorce law firm, is delighted to announce a major expansion in our Dublin office with the appointment of senior Dublin private client and divorce solicitor Clodagh Hopkins, and divorce lawyer Michelle Craven.

Clare McEleney, Solicitor in our Derry office, has been accredited to the Law Society of Northern Ireland's Children Order Panel. This panel consists of family lawyers who have undertaken specialist training and examination on the Order, and who have proven their expertise and experience in Family and Child Law.

The Law Society of Northern Ireland was buzzing with inspiration and empowerment as Legal Women UK hosted an enlightening event.