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In Company with Courtney

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In Company with Courtney
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  • In Company with Courtney

    William Johnston... In Company with Courtney

    17/02/2026 | 28 mins.
    Welcome to Bloomsbury Professional’s In Company with Courtney, hosted by Tom Courtney, author of The Law of Companies and consultant with Bloomsbury Professional.

    In each episode Tom Courtney speaks with a leading light in Irish company law and corporate governance.

    In this episode I’m in company with William Johnston, former partner in Arthur Cox, solicitor and author of Banking and Security Law in Ireland.

    William is one of the fantastic speakers at our upcoming 2026 Company Law Conference: Corporate Security: Creation, Registration and Enforcement.

    Click here to find out more about this year's conference and to book your place.

    Early bird tickets available until February 28th.

    Find out more about our Irish Company and Commercial Law Online service by clicking here.
  • In Company with Courtney

    Suzanne Kearney... In Company with Courtney 2025

    02/12/2025 | 24 mins.
    Welcome to Bloomsbury Professional’s In Company with Courtney, hosted by Tom Courtney, author of The Law of Companies and consultant with Bloomsbury Professional.

    In each episode Tom Courtney speaks with a leading light in Irish company law and corporate governance.

    This podcast is of interest to everyone and anyone with a passing interest in company law, so whether you are a practicing lawyer or accountant, a business person who has to manage your interactions with the Companies Act 2014 or students of company law, I hope you find at least something of interest to you in each episode.

    In this episode I’m in company with my former colleague from Arthur Cox, Suzanne Kearney with whom for a number of years I recorded the Back to Basics series.

    Suzanne is Of Counsel and heads up the Knowledge team in the Corporate Department at Arthur Cox LLP and is responsible for legal, regulatory and commercial awareness horizon-scanning for clients and colleagues at Arthur Cox. Suzanne regularly authors and presents tailored updates on key legal developments for Arthur Cox’s clients and fee earners. 

    You can listen to Suzanne's Back to Basics podcast here.

    Find out more about our Irish Company and Commercial Law Online service by clicking here.
  • In Company with Courtney

    Shelley Horan... In Company with Courtney

    24/09/2025 | 42 mins.
    Welcome to Bloomsbury Professional’s In Company with Courtney, hosted by Tom Courtney, author of The Law of Companies and consultant with Bloomsbury Professional.

    In each episode Tom Courtney speaks with a leading light in Irish company law and corporate governance.

    This podcast is of interest to everyone and anyone with a passing interest in company law, so whether you are a practicing lawyer or accountant, a business person who has to manage your interactions with the Companies Act 2014 or students of company law, I hope you find at least something of interest to you in each episode.

    This episode features a discussion with Shelley Horan. A practising barrister for over 19 years, Shelley specialises in commercial and regulatory law and is the author of Corporate Crime. . Shelley was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Law in Trinity College Dublin and had in the last number of weeks been granted a Patent of Precedence by the Government and will be in practice as a Senior Counsel from next month, October 2025. She joins us on the podcast for an in-depth discussion on director's criminal liability. 

    Find out more about Bloomsbury Professional's Irish Company and Commercial Law Online service by clicking here.

    In our next episode in November, which will be the last podcast in 2025, Suzanne Kearney joins us to review the company law and corporate governance ‘year that was’ and horizon scan for 2026, marking our cards for what we should be on the look-out for.
  • In Company with Courtney

    Blanaid Clarke... In Company with Courtney

    31/07/2025 | 59 mins.
    Welcome to Bloomsbury Professional’s In Company with Courtney, hosted by Tom Courtney, author of The Law of Companies and consultant with Bloomsbury Professional.

    In each episode Tom Courtney speaks with a leading light in Irish company law and corporate governance.

    This podcast is of interest to everyone and anyone with a passing interest in company law, so whether you are a practicing lawyer or accountant, a business person who has to manage your interactions with the Companies Act 2014 or students of company law, I hope you find at least something of interest to you in each episode.

    In this podcast, Tom is delighted to be joined by Professor Blanaid Clarke, the McCann Fitzgerald Chair in Corporate Law at Trinity College where she lectures on a number of modules including Corporate Governance in the EU, Contract Law and, of course, Company Law. Many listeners who are relatively recently qualified solicitors and barristers will be most familiar with Blanaid as their former teacher of company law! Blanaid’s research interests include governance (corporate governance, fund governance and central bank governance), ethics and takeover law.

    Blanaid is also Deputy Chair of the Irish Banking Culture Board, Chair of the Irish Corporate Governance Code Advisory Panel, the Irish representative on the OECD’s Corporate Governance Committee and a Vice President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute.

    Find out more about Bloomsbury Professional's Irish Company and Commercial Law Online service by clicking here.

    In the next episode, Tom will be joined by Shelly Horan BL, author of the exceptionally helpful book Corporate Crime the first edition of which was published in 2011 by Bloomsbury Professional and the second edition of which is in preparation. Join us for that in September.
  • In Company with Courtney

    Ian Drennan... In Company with Courtney

    27/05/2025 | 30 mins.
    Welcome to Bloomsbury Professional’s In Company with Courtney, hosted by Tom Courtney, author of The Law of Companies and consultant with Bloomsbury Professional.

    In each episode Tom Courtney speaks with a leading light in Irish company law and corporate governance.

    This podcast is of interest to everyone and anyone with a passing interest in company law, so whether you are a practicing lawyer or accountant, a business person who has to manage your interactions with the Companies Act 2014 or students of company law, I hope you find at least something of interest to you in each episode.

     

    In this podcast I am delighted to be joined by Ian Drennan, Chief Executive Officer and sole appointed Member of the Corporate Enforcement Authority, or CEA.

    In his position as top man at the CEA, Ian has extensive experience in the areas of investigation, regulation, and civil and criminal enforcement and of leading entities having a public interest mandate, having previously held the positions of Director of Corporate Enforcement and Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA). 

    Find out more about our Irish Company and Commercial Law Online service by clicking here.

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About In Company with Courtney

Dr Thomas B Courtney, FCIS, Solicitor (non-practising) is founder of Courtney Governance Limited, author of The Law of Companies, a speaker, trainer and thought leader on Irish company law and corporate governance and a strategic governance advisor . In this new podcast series Tom speaks with a leading light in Irish company law and corporate governance. The podcast will be of interest to everyone and anyone with a passing interest in company law, so whether you are a practicing lawyer or accountant, a business person who has to manage your interactions with the Companies Act 2014 or students of company law, I hope you find at least something of interest to you in each episode.
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