George Peretz KC BL practises from Monckton Chambers in London, and is a member of the Law Library, Dublin. He has a wide competition, regulatory, indirect tax and public law practice before the English and Welsh and EU courts, with a particular specialism in subsidy control and State aid: recent cases include Credit Suisse v HMRC [2019] EWHC (Ch) 1922 (whether bankers bonus tax involved State aid) and R(British Gas Trading) v Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero [2023] EWHC (Admin) 737 (whether UK government subsidies relating to the sale of Bulb Energy breached the subsidy control rules in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement).

Eoin Kealy is Head of Competition & Regulatory at Ryanair. He advises primarily on sector-specific EU and domestic regulation and State aid law. Eoin has worked in a number of top Irish commercial law firms and multinationals. Eoin has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Law from University College Dublin, and a Master’s Degree in Competition Law from King’s College London.

Geoffrey is Company Solicitor with Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Development Agency tasked with the development of indigenous industry.

He practises principally in the areas of State Aid law, procurement law, corporate governance and contract law. He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Economics from University College Dublin and post-graduate Diplomas in several areas of the law including EU Competition Law (King’s College London) and Procurement Law (the King’s Inns Dublin). Geoffrey qualified in 1990 and has practised commercial law for over twenty years in several firms and in-house, including with Arthur Cox and A & L Goodbody in Dublin and with the Irish energy utility, Bord na Mona plc