Company Secretarial Traineeship 2026

At McCann FitzGerald, we are a group of committed and passionate people who together create the strength of our firm. We combine world-class legal thinking with a human approach, to create advantage and unlock potential for our clients.

We work collaboratively, bringing the best people and teams together to solve complex issues, seize opportunities, and create better outcomes for clients.

Our Company Secretarial Group assists companies and their directors with all aspects of company law administration and compliance, proving support, assistance and guidance to our clients on meeting their statutory compliance obligations and ensuring good corporate governance practices are implemented and maintained. We provide a comprehensive range of company secretarial services to clients from all the major industry sectors, from standalone indigenous companies and large multinational groups to investment companies.

We are currently recruiting for a number of Trainees to join the Company Secretarial Group. This is a full-time Traineeship position with exceptional career progression opportunities. The successful candidates will get to train and learn from a close team of experienced company secretaries, supported by and working alongside lawyers from the Corporate, Investment Management and Finance Groups

As a Company Secretary, the responsibilities will include:

• Managing a varied portfolio of clients in company secretarial and corporate governance matters
• Incorporating new companies
• Providing advice on company law and monitoring clients’ statutory obligations following incorporation
• Assisting clients with their ongoing compliance requirements, including annual return dates, preparation of financial statements, audit obligations and potential exemptions, beneficial ownership analysis and disclosure, etc.
• Documenting changes to company particulars (officers, share capital, etc) and making the appropriate filings
• Attending board and shareholder meetings and preparing minutes
• Maintaining of statutory books and records; completion of due diligence on entity records; and inputting and updating entity information onto electronic databases

The ideal candidates will have:

• 2.1 Honours Degree in Law, Business or a related subject
• A keen interest in Company Law
• Excellent numerical skills
• Good IT skills
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent critical thinking skills
• Strong organisational and time-management skills

Our Offer

• Competitive salary
• Education support for undertaking the Charted Secretary qualification
• Hybrid working options (over the course of the traineeship)
• Pension contributions
• Life assurance and income protection cover
• A great working environment
• A lively sports and social club

Applications

To apply for this role, please email careers@mccannfitzgerald.com with your CV and, for a confidential discussion or for more information, please contact Eimear Power (Recruitment Manager) on +353 1 607 12 92

Position Title: Company Secretary

At McCann FitzGerald, we are a group of committed and passionate people who together create the strength of our firm. We combine world-class legal thinking with a human approach, to create advantage and unlock potential for our clients.

We work collaboratively, bringing the best people and teams together to solve complex issues, seize opportunities, and create better outcomes for clients.

The expectations of our clients, the competitive marketplace and our own ambitions have grown consistently over recent years. To ensure that we have the right structures in place to support the achievement of our goals we are currently recruiting for an experienced Company Secretary to join our Company Secretarial & Compliance Group.

The Group offers a full suite of company secretarial, board support and compliance services to a large portfolio of Irish registered entities and investment funds, and provides technical support and practical insight into company law issues to lawyers across the firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Acting as primary point of contact for the provision of company secretarial services to a portfolio of Irish companies and Central Bank of Ireland regulated entities
• Advising on the establishment of companies
• Provide guidance regarding ongoing compliance obligations of companies, including annual return date, preparation of financial statements, audit requirements and potential exemptions, beneficial ownership analysis and disclosure, etc.
• Formulating board meeting agendas and collating board packs for circulation in accordance with an agreed timeline
• Facilitating and attending board and shareholder meetings and the preparation of minutes and action points arising from those meetings
• Documenting changes to company particulars (officers, share capital, etc) and making the appropriate filings
• Interpreting and amending company constitutions
• Maintaining of statutory books and records; completion of due diligence on entity records; and inputting and updating entity information onto electronic databases
• Liaising with and advising clients and colleagues in matters of company law and provision of support to the members the company secretarial department to complete their daily workflow
• Developing, maintaining and updating the Firm’s template documents and precedents
• Dealing with telephone queries and ensuring that such queries are handled in a professional, courteous and prompt manner
• Participation and attendance at workshops and lectures and generally promoting the Company Secretarial & Compliance Group, as required from time to time by the Head of the Company Secretarial & Compliance Group
• Suggesting improvements/amendments to systems and procedures
• Other administrative tasks and ad hoc projects as requested/ required from time to time

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

The successful candidate will have:

• Minimum 3 years of company secretarial experience
• Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland company secretary qualification (desirable)
• An excellent academic background
• Funds/regulated entities company secretarial experience an advantage, but not essential
• Experience using company secretarial databases (such as GEMS, Diligent Entities / Blueprint, Relate, etc) and ideally board meeting portals (Diligent Boards, BoardVantage, Board Intelligence, etc)
• Working knowledge of the Companies Act essential, and Central Bank of Ireland corporate governance requirements for regulated entities helpful.
• Strong interpersonal skills which are essential to provide support, assistance and guidance to entities and their officers on meeting their statutory compliance obligations, thus helping to ensure good corporate governance practices are implemented and maintained.
• Excellent numerical skills and attention to detail
• A high degree of discretion and the ability to work with sensitive and confidential data.
• Good time management skills, the ability to manage a busy workload and meet required and often tight deadlines.
• Strong Microsoft office skills
• A positive attitude, the ability to take ownership and responsibility for the completion of tasks and the ability to take and demonstrate initiative.

Our Offer

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working options
• Pension contributions
• Life assurance and income protection cover
• Relocation assistance (for those joining from overseas)
• A great working environment
• A lively sports and social club

Applications

To apply for this role, please email careers@mccannfitzgerald.com with your CV and, for a confidential discussion or for more information, please contact Eimear Power (Recruitment Manager) on +353 1 607 12 92

Position Title: Associates, Investment Management Group, Funds

At McCann FitzGerald, we are a group of committed and passionate people who together create the strength of our firm. We combine world-class legal thinking with a human approach, to create advantage and unlock potential for our clients.

We work collaboratively, bringing the best people and teams together to solve complex issues, seize opportunities, and create better outcomes for clients.

Our Investment Management Group (“IMG”) has experienced a consistent and significant level of expansion in recent years with some noteworthy client appointments. With the intention of continuing to grow our client base we are currently recruiting for Associates to join the IMG.

IMG delivers integrated investment management expertise to a wide range of clients, including some of the largest investment managers in the domestic and international funds markets.

The successful candidate will have ambition, the technical expertise in Irish Fund establishment and a desire to engage in high level client activity and marketing initiatives.

This is an opportunity to grow your career in a firm with a culture of team work and mutual support, while working with industry experts and world class clients.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will become part of a well-established and leading funds team which advises on a variety of work including:

• Establishment of all types of Irish fund structures across a broad range of investment strategies, including ETFs and other UCITS, as well as Private Funds (PE, VC, real estate, infrastructure, credit/loan origination and others)
• Advising on UCITS Management Company and Alternative Investment Fund Manager and Authorisations
• Providing support to our clients on all regulatory requirements applicable to them in their asset management activities

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

The successful candidate will:

• Be qualified as a solicitor in Ireland, England and Wales or another common law jurisdiction
• Have an excellent academic background
• 1-3 years post qualification experience in establishment of Irish Fund structures
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent attention to detail
• A team player attitude

Our Offer

Competitive salary

Performance related bonus

Health insurance

Pension

Life assurance and income protection cover

Relocation assistance (for those joining from overseas)

A great working environment

A lively sports and social club

Applications

To apply for this role, please email careers@mccannfitzgerald.com with your CV and, for a confidential discussion or for more information, please contact Eimear Power (Recruitment Manager) on +353 1 607 12 92

The expectations of our clients, the competitive marketplace and our own ambitions have grown consistently over recent years.  To ensure that we have the right structures in place to support the achievement of our goals we are currently recruiting for an Associate to join our Corporate Group, with a focus on public company (PLC) matters.

The Team advises a significant number of listed Irish PLCs on an ongoing basis and is regularly involved on the most high-profile corporate transactions in Ireland (including advising Abbvie on its $63 billion acquisition of Allergan and WestRock on its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa).

This is an opportunity to grow your career in a firm with a culture of teamwork and mutual support and offers a path to further career progression.

McCann FitzGerald LLP is one of Ireland’s premier law firms employing approximately 600 people. We provide the highest quality, specialist legal advice and representation to Irish and overseas clients. Our clients include those in the corporate, financial and business sectors as well as a range of government entities and state and statutory bodies.

At McCann FitzGerald, we are a group of committed and passionate people who together create the strength of our firm. We combine world-class legal thinking with a human approach, to create advantage and unlock potential for our clients.

McCann FitzGerald LLP’s Employment Law Group is ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 and advises on the full range of employment, equality and industrial relations law issues. The Group works with senior management and human resources professionals in major employers, advising on the most complex issues in the Irish market and internationally, including whistleblowing, complex investigations, restrictive covenants and team moves, employment litigation, and corporate transactions.

We now seek to recruit a Senior Associate to join the Employment Law Group. This is a unique opportunity to join a team of highly-skilled and experienced advisers in a collegiate and flexible environment and to advise on a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious employment-related matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Advising on employment contracts, policies and procedures;
• Advising clients on the full range of HR-related legal queries, including issues such as absence management, performance management, disciplinary and grievance processes, corporate immigration, complaints of bullying and harassment, restructuring and redundancies, restrictive covenants and related litigation, mandatory retirement and termination of employment;
• Advice on the conduct of investigations including in respect of protected disclosures;
• Advising on labour-related matters in the context of corporate transactions;
• Advising clients on the conduct of employment-related litigation before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the civil courts – there will be opportunities for the senior associate to conduct their own advocacy, should they wish to do so;
• Advising on transfer of undertakings;
• Preparing and delivering presentations to clients and colleagues on areas of employment law; and
• Engaging proactively on business development activities.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

• 5 + years PQE gained in either Ireland or the UK;
• Strong experience in all aspects of contentious, advisory and transactional employment law;
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills;
• Ability to exercise sound judgement and decision-making;
• Ability to multi-task and manage client needs on a consistent basis;
• A genuine passion for business development;
• A keen interest in maintaining, developing and sharing relevant legal knowledge; and
• A positive, ‘team player’ attitude.

Education

The successful candidate will be qualified as a solicitor in Ireland or England & Wales.

Applications

Applications are made through email and should be accompanied by a full curriculum vitae and sent to eimear.power@mccannfitzgerald.com