Liquor licensing
Applications, transfers and the licensing lifecycle for premises whose trading depends on the licence being right.
Pembroke House, Dublin 2
When it lands on
When it lands on
your counter, it is
already urgent.
We act for the retail, leisure, hospitality and licensed trade. Litigation, licensing, property and corporate work for businesses whose trading depends on getting an answer quickly.
What arrives, and what answers it
01 / 06
YOU
The Gardai have lodged an objection to our licence renewal.
US
We act on objections to renewal, and the hearing date sets the timetable for everything else. Objection to renewal of liquor licences
What we do
Our approach is simple: we get things done. These are the areas we work in.
Objections to renewal
Acting where an objection has been lodged against the renewal of a liquor licence.
Special exemptions
Applications for late bar services, where the extra hours are the commercial point.
Annual renewals
Renewal services for the annual renewal of alcohol and entertainment licences.
Regulatory enforcement
Acting for businesses facing enforcement action from a regulator or inspector.
Planning enforcement
Responding to planning enforcement affecting a trading premises.
Commercial litigation
Civil and commercial disputes, the work behind our line on effective dispute resolution.
Real estate
Commercial property, landlord and tenant, and the retail and leisure work that sits alongside it.
Corporate
Commercial and corporate law for owner-run and multi-site operators.
The sectors we are built around
We are a leading law firm in the retail, leisure, hospitality and licensed trade sector. Our work is organised around premises that trade, and the things that can stop them trading.
RetailLeisureHospitalityLicensed trade
Who we are
Three partners, each leading their own area.
Lorraine Compton
Retail, hospitality, leisure and liquor licensing
Previously head of the Retail and Leisure Sector Group at Matheson. She has worked on clients' shop floors to test whether particular advice would work in practice, and is the Law Society of Ireland's nominee working with the Courts Service on bringing liquor licensing applications online.
Nicola Rooney
Head of real estate
Twenty years across commercial property, landlord and tenant, retail and leisure and liquor licensing. Trinity College Dublin, previously Matheson and McCann FitzGerald.
Joy Compton
Head of corporate
Twenty years in commercial and corporate law, and chairperson of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. Previously Eugene F. Collins.
Lorraine was named Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year for Leisure and Licensing Law, Dublin, in 2015 and 2016.
“Our approach is simple … we get things done.”
Compton Solicitors
We say the same thing another way: delivering effective dispute resolution. Both describe a practice built for operators who need the matter closed rather than explained.
The paperwork behind a trading premises
Leases, licences, renewals and the correspondence that follows an inspection. Most of it is routine until the day it is not.
Talk to us
Pembroke House, 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2. If the matter is already running to a date, say so when you call.
Phone+353 1 234 2678
Email[email protected]
AddressPembroke House, 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2
DX109 047 Fitzwilliam