About Ireland - Commercial
As a commercial lawyer, you have to cover a lot of ground. Today, you might be drawing up agreements for suppliers. Tomorrow, you might be dealing with a query on intellectual property. When you're wearing so many hats, sometimes the real challenge is
simply knowing where to start. Whatever the challenge, Lexis+ Ireland - Commercial is the only place you need to look.
We address commercial contract essentials, entity-specific execution, and offer resources on IP, confidentiality, data protection.
We also provide insights on digital trade, supply, and consumer protection.
Contract
Practice notes and precedents covering contract formation, execution, interpretation and variation in Ireland to help you confidently negotiate, execute and manage robust commercial agreements.
Digital trade
Practical information on the issues and legal considerations arising for businesses trading and operating online including guidance on the legal requirements applicable to websites and online platforms.
Confidential information and intellectual property
An overview of the laws protecting confidential information and trade secrets in Ireland including practical guidance on key issues to consider when negotiating confidentiality agreements.
Key developments and horizon scanning
Our legislation, cases, initiatives and progress trackers keep you up to date with all the latest developments affecting commercial lawyers in Ireland.
Latest Ireland - Commercial News
MLex: The EU’s AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive legislation on artificial intelligence (AI), imposes the bulk of its due-diligence obligations...
The European Commission has issued three additional technical investigatory measures to X (formerly Twitter) regarding its recommender system, as part...
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published Guidelines 01/2025 on Pseudonymisation for public consultation. The guidelines clarify the...
The European Commission has opened a public consultation on a proposed regulation to enhance cooperation in enforcing EU rules on unfair trading...
MLex: In 2026, the EU Digital Fairness Act (DFA), an initiative designed to strengthen consumer protections in the digital landscape, is set to be...
Latest Ireland - Commercial Practice Notes
Key EU consumer legislation—summaryThis Practice Note sets out a brief description of the main consumer directives and regulations that businesses...
EU consumer protection cases trackerThis tracker is intended to be used to track the relevant cases related to consumer law. It includes relevant...
Product safety notification and corrective actionsIntroductionThis Practice Note describes the consumer product safety corrective action regime in the...
Ireland—Contracts and third-party rightsThis Practice Note considers why a third party may wish to rely on a contract to which it is not privy, and...
EU data initiatives—trackerThis document tracks the key steps of the legislative procedures on data in the EU. On 19 February 2020, the European...
Latest Ireland - Commercial Precedents
This Precedent is a contract review clause which gives the contracting parties the opportunity to review both parties’ performance of the contract and...
Ireland—Policy—use of generative artificial intelligenceThis Precedent is a generative artificial intelligence policy for a company to use in relation...
Ireland—Arbitration clauseThis is a precedent arbitration clause for future disputes, which can be used for international and domestic arbitrations...
Ireland—Counterparts clauseCounterpartsA counterparts clause is a common boilerplate clause which provides that the parties to an agreement may...
This Precedent is a governing law clause, sometimes known as an applicable law clause or a choice of law clause. The governing law clause is...
Featured Ireland - Commercial content
Key EU consumer legislation—summary
Key EU consumer legislation—summaryThis Practice Note sets out a brief description of the main consumer directives and regulations that businesses...
Ireland—Contract review clause
This Precedent is a contract review clause which gives the contracting parties the opportunity to review both parties’ performance of the contract and...
EU consumer protection cases tracker
EU consumer protection cases trackerThis tracker is intended to be used to track the relevant cases related to consumer law. It includes relevant...
Ireland—Policy—use of generative artificial intelligence
Ireland—Policy—use of generative artificial intelligenceThis Precedent is a generative artificial intelligence policy for a company to use in relation...
Product safety notification and corrective actions
Product safety notification and corrective actionsIntroductionThis Practice Note describes the consumer product safety corrective action regime in the...
Ireland—Contracts and third-party rights
Ireland—Contracts and third-party rightsThis Practice Note considers why a third party may wish to rely on a contract to which it is not privy, and...
EU data initiatives—tracker
EU data initiatives—trackerThis document tracks the key steps of the legislative procedures on data in the EU. On 19 February 2020, the European...
EU GDPR—sanctions and enforcement
EU GDPR—sanctions and enforcementThe EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR) became directly applicable and fully...
Ireland—Commercial horizon scanner 2024 [Archived]
Ireland—Commercial horizon scanner 2024 [Archived]ARCHIVED: This archived commercial horizon scanner tracks the progress of Irish legislation...
EU GDPR—transfers of personal data internationally and to international organisations
EU GDPR—transfers of personal data internationally and to international organisationsThis Practice Note introduces the general prohibition under...
EU block exemptions revision—tracker
EU block exemptions revision—trackerThis Practice Note tracks the progress of the revision of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and...
Ireland—Protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights
Ireland—Protecting and enforcing intellectual property rightsIntroductionIrish law protects a range of intellectual property (IP) rights that will be...
The EU Omnibus Directive
The EU Omnibus DirectiveThis Practice Note provides an overview of the key amendments introduced to various EU consumer protection legislation by...
Ireland—Arbitration clause
Ireland—Arbitration clauseThis is a precedent arbitration clause for future disputes, which can be used for international and domestic arbitrations...
Ireland—Counterparts clause
Ireland—Counterparts clauseCounterpartsA counterparts clause is a common boilerplate clause which provides that the parties to an agreement may...
Ireland—Governing law clause
This Precedent is a governing law clause, sometimes known as an applicable law clause or a choice of law clause. The governing law clause is...
UK GDPR enforcement by the Information Commissioner’s Office—tracker
UK GDPR enforcement by the Information Commissioner’s Office—trackerThis Practice Note tracks enforcement actions in the UK by the UK Information...
Associated legal terms
Cash balance arrangement
A type of money purchase arrangement. An arrangement is a cash balance arrangement where the member will be provided with money purchase benefits, but where the amount that will be available to provide those benefits is not calculated purely by reference to payments made under the arrangement by or on behalf of the member.
De facto
A situation which exists as a matter of fact, but not as a matter of right, exists de facto.
Latham report
Sir Michael Latham's report 'Constructing the Team', which was commissioned by the UK government and industry organisations. It foreshadowed many of the provisions of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. Its aim was to identify means of reducing construction costs and the number of construction disputes.
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