The firm's energetic and experienced partners, associates, solicitors and staff have the advantage of not being segregated into formal departments thus enabling them to more readily combine their expertise in the manner most suited to each client or case - a flexible team approach.

Partners

Roger P. Ballagh

email: RogerBallagh@kmb.ie

Roger qualified in 1968 and is our Managing Partner and has a long standing legal tradition. His family practiced law for over a hundred years. Roger practiced with his uncle before setting up Roger Ballagh & Son in 1980 which merged with Kennedy and McGonagle in 1991. He is a member of the Irish Taxation Institute and a keen golfer. He is also a notary public and has an extensive notarial practice.

Key Practice areas: Advising semi-state bodies and local authorities, commercial and property conveyancing (private and commercial) and litigation.

Terence E. Dixon

email: TerryDixon@kmb.ie

Terry qualified in 1969 and is a past President of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, a former Council Member of the Law Society of Ireland and of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the High Court and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London and an accredited legal representative to the Mental Health Tribunal. His outside interests range from art to forestry to his deer farm in Co. Wicklow.

Key Practice areas: Conveyancing (private and commercial), wills and probate, capital taxation, Intellectual Property, and arbitration law.

David Ballagh

email: DavidBallagh@kmb.ie

David qualified in 2000 and became a partner in 2005. He was elected Managing Partner in 2008. He has also studied accountancy and belongs to the fifth generation of lawyers in his family. He advises commercial and private clients in the areas of commercial property with a particular interest in technology, renewable energy transactions and landlord and tenant matters. He also advises on all aspects on contract law and has considerable experience in funding contracts in the area of health services. He has spent some time seconded to a large corporate client providing valuable advice on all aspects of their ongoing commercial development.

Key Practice areas: Advising semi-state bodies, commercial property, landlord and tenant, commercial contracts in the oil industry and funding contracts for public sector funders.

Agatha Taylor

email: AgathaTaylor@kmb.ie

Agatha qualified in December 1998 and became a partner in 2007. Agatha’s sporting achievements in hockey including representing University College Dublin at senior level where she received her colours, and becoming a gold medallist and Irish Senior Cup winner together with her representation at senior interprovincial level over the years, have provided her with the determination and competitive edge to the service she provides. In addition to law, Agatha studied economics and post-graduate studies in marketing and public relations.

Agatha has extensive experience in litigation including advising our corporate, semi-state and private clients on commercial and property/construction disputes, and employment law. Agatha represents a large insurer in the defence of personal injury claims for a Dublin Local Authority and has expertise in personal injury, medical negligence and insurance law. Agatha represents a large corporate bank advising on loan agreements, guarantees and motor stocking loans in addition to insolvency, recovery and debt collection.

Agatha has lectured on the workings of the Commercial Court on the Law Society Diploma in Commercial Litigation and to practitioners for the Dublin Bar and Solicitors Association. She also provides in-house talks to clients and currently has a keen interest in occupational stress claims.

Key Practice areas: commercial and property/construction disputes; employment law; personal injury, medical negligence and insurance litigation; bank and motor stocking loans; insolvency, recovery and debt collection.