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
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...
General-purpose AI model providers like Microsoft, OpenAI and Google will now see softened copyright-related measures in the second draft of the EU’s...
IP analysis: The European Patent Office (EPO) regularly applies the problem and solution approach when deciding whether an invention involves an...
MLex: The European Commission must pay €400 in damages to a user of one of its websites over the transfer of personal data to the US without the...
Latest Ireland - Commercial Practice Notes
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...
EU GDPR—sanctions and enforcementThe EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR) became directly applicable and fully...
Latest Ireland - Commercial Precedents
Ireland—Policy—use of generative artificial intelligenceThis Precedent is a generative artificial intelligence policy for a company to use in relation...
This Precedent is a contract review clause which gives the contracting parties the opportunity to review both parties’ performance of the contract and...
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
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...
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...
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...
EU consumer protection—tracker
EU consumer protection—trackerThis document tracks and summarises key new and upcoming EU legislation (regulations and directives), guidance, and...
Associated legal terms
CAFCASS
Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.
Construction phase plan
The plan that the CDM Regulations require the ‘principal contractor’ to produce on a project to ensure the health and safety of those carrying out the works and those who may be affected by them, eg visitors to the site, members of the public and users of the completed building, by identifying and addressing all the risks to health and safety arising from the works.
Key Information Document (KID)
A standardised three-page pre-investment document which will include (among other things) information about costs and future performance scenarios which must be provided to retail clients before they invest in an AIF that is a PRIIP and, once the requirements become applicable, a UCITS which is a PRIIP. The KID must comply with specific content requirements in the PRIIPs Regulation.
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