{"id":409888,"date":"2026-04-21T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409888\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:14:08","slug":"maples-and-calder-makes-four-senior-hires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409888\/","title":{"rendered":"Maples and Calder makes four senior hires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/maplesmainerr.jpg\" alt=\"Maples and Calder makes four senior hires\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            Killian Breen, Andrew Ion, Peter Stapleton, Gillian Beechinor and David McClelland<\/p>\n<p>Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples Group&#8217;s law firm, has announced a significant expansion of its Irish real-estate practice with four senior appointments, as the firm celebrates its 20th anniversary in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The firm welcomes Gillian Beechinor and Andrew Ion, as real estate partner and head of real estate, in addition to of counsel David McClelland and associate Killian Breen.<\/p>\n<p>These strategic hires follow the firm&#8217;s recent promotion of seven of its senior lawyers to partner and of counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Stapleton, EMEA regional managing partner, said: &#8220;We are delighted to welcome Gillian, Andrew, Killian and David to our real-estate practice in Ireland. Their combined expertise significantly strengthens our real-estate and construction offering at a time of exciting growth for the firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we celebrate 20 years in Ireland, these external appointments underscore our ambition and strategy to continue investing in our people and expanding our capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strategic objectives<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Ion, head of real estate and partner, said: \u201cI look forward to working closely with colleagues in Ireland across jurisdictions to provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice that supports our clients\u2019 evolving strategic objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Real estate partner Gillian Beechinor added: &#8220;The group\u2019s extensive international offering and reputation for excellence were key factors in my decision to join. I am excited to collaborate with my colleagues in Ireland and across our global network to deliver exceptional service to our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, the Maples Group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/gazette\/top-stories\/2026\/january\/maples-plans-major-dublin-office-investment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced plans<\/a> to renovate and relocate its Irish operations to a newly refurbished headquarters at 75 St. Stephen\u2019s Green, bringing all Dublin-based teams together under one roof in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>                                <a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/gazette\/author-articles\/?author=Gazette Desk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                    Gazette Desk<br \/>\n                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gazette.ie is the daily legal news site of the Law Society of Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Killian Breen, Andrew Ion, Peter Stapleton, Gillian Beechinor and David McClelland Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-409888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}