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Matheson Ormsby Prentice has announced a significant expansion of its international operations, with new appointments at both its New York and London offices.

As of June 2011, John Ryan, one of Ireland’s leading international tax advisers, has re-located to the firm’s New York offices.

Alan Keating, senior associate in the firm’s Tax and Structured Finance and Derivatives Group, and Aidan Kelly, senior associate with the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group, have also joined the New York office, where they will advise many of the world’s leading international companies and financial institutions doing business in and through Ireland.

The appointments at the New York office follow the relocation earlier this year of Stanley Watson, widely acknowledged as one of Ireland’s leading corporate lawyers, to MOP’s London office.

Stanley, who led the firm’s corporate and commercial practice for eight years, has particular expertise in UK/Ireland cross-border and private equity cases, and will lead a team of corporate, banking and financial services lawyers in London.

Having opened its first US office fifteen years ago in Palo Alto, California, MOP is the only Irish law firm with a presence on both East and West coasts of America, and is the largest Irish law firm in the US.

In London, meanwhile, MOP has now had a presence for almost 20 years.

Liam Quirke, Managing Partner, Matheson Ormsby Prentice said: "The primary focus of our firm is on advising international companies and financial institutions doing business in and through Ireland.”

“These initiatives, especially the appointment of practitioners of the calibre of John and Stanley, represent a major investment by our firm in the services we provide to our international clients and will reinforce our dominance in these key markets. These initiatives also represent a major investment by the firm in Ireland, which depends on foreign-owned companies, many of which are our clients, for more than 80% of its exports,” Mr Quirke said.