Bio

Pat founded the firm in 2002. In 1983 he graduated with an honors BCL law degree from University College Dublin. He was admitted as a solicitor in Ireland in 1987 and in England and Wales in 1996. In 2013 he completed an Advanced Leadership Programme with the Timoney Institute and San Telmo University, Seville, Spain. Pat previously worked with A&L Goodbody, one of Ireland’s largest law firms. He is a former senior executive of Ulster Investment Bank (part of the RBS/NatWest Group) where he specialised in global structured finance transactions involving European and US companies. He has also worked in corporate finance in Ireland and in emerging markets, particularly the Russian Federation, for a UK business. Pat was head of the corporate law department in a top 10 Dublin law firm before leaving to establish Flynn O’Driscoll. Pat has, in over 30 years of business life, acquired considerable transactional experience in acting on corporate mergers, acquisitions and financings. He is practical, with excellent business skills and he brings these, together with a wide range of friendships and business relationships to problem solving for clients. Over the years he has advised companies and shareholders on wide ranging issues including disputes and is recognised as an excellent solutions driven lawyer. He has further been involved in numerous successful mediations involving shareholder and company related matters. Pat is a member of the Law Society of Ireland, the Dublin Solicitor’s Bar Association, the Irish Russian Business Association, the Irish International Business Network (IIBN), both in Dublin and London and the British-Irish Chamber of Commerce. Pat’s current directorships include a number of international aircraft leasing companies based in Dublin and he served on the Board of Directors of Enterprise Ireland for a four year term, 2014 - 2018. Enterprise Ireland is the Irish Government organisation responsible for the development and growth of Irish enterprises in world markets. He is on the Executive Committees of the Law Exchange International, the International legal network of 34 global law firms comprising of 1,733 lawyers to which Flynn O'Driscoll belongs.