Vicky Riordan - Whitney Moore

Vicky Riordan
Partner vicky.riordan@whitneymoore.ie +353 1 611 0030

Practice Areas

Banking and Recoveries Commercial Disputes Defence and Insurance Litigation Dispute Resolution Judicial Review Personal Injury Product Liability

Vicky is an experienced litigation Partner in the Dispute Resolution team and principally heads up the Banking Litigation team, where she acts for various Financial Institutions in all areas of Banking Litigation and Enforcement including Judgements, possessions, reversing fraudulent transactions, and litigation involving deceased borrowers as well as defending counterclaims and incoming claims of various types. Vicky is regularly sought out due to her considerable expertise in this area. Vicky has also recently secured work in the area of Personal Insolvency Arrangements for one such large Financial Institution.

Vicky also has extensive experience in a broad range of other commercial litigation disputes, debt recovery, breach of contract/warranty claims and has significant experience in the area of product liability, particularly in relation the firm’s motor industry clients and in addition to Court proceedings, has been involved in a number of mediations/arbitrations arising from these disputes. Vicky also advises in the area of personal injury litigation.

Vicky qualified as a Solicitor in 1999 and is a member of the Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association.

In the Legal 500 EMEA, Vicky is included as a ‘Key Lawyer’ and from one client in the motor trade, has a testimonial as follows: “has a very good understanding of how it works. This is very important where a dispute arises and they can give advice from both our stand point and the third party. They don’t just agree with our view point, they will rationalise it out.”

Vicky is a highly skilled, general commercial litigation solicitor and has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial litigation. She advises clients in commercial disputes across a broad range of activities. Relevant expertise includes personal injury matters, advising in the areas of product liability and consumer law (with particular speciality in the automotive industry), breach of contract and specific performance claims, enforcement of debts both secured and unsecured, professional negligence claims relating to valuers and architects and injunction proceedings for both plaintiff and defendant.

Vicky also has experience in disputes concerning planning matters, as well as judicial review proceedings. She has extensive practical experience in the area of alternative dispute resolution. Vicky has also conducted a number of arbitrations and is very familiar with the arbitration procedure. She has significant experience in all aspects of debt recovery matters and the various enforcement procedures and has been involved in numerous high-value debt recovery matters before the Courts including the Commercial Court division of the High Court.

Vicky graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She subsequently qualified as a solicitor in 1999, was made an associate in 2002 and a partner in 2019.