Jeanette is head of Cleaver Fulton Rankin’s Dispute Resolution and Insolvency & Business Restructuring departments. She advises banks, creditors, financial institutions, insolvency practitioners and stakeholders both locally and nationally on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious corporate and personal insolvency.

Jeanette acts in a wide variety of complex financial services and insolvency related litigation and has advised litigants in a number of high profile reported cases.

Jeanette also has a specialism in insolvency related property transactions conducing a wide range of disposal work. Clients like that she takes an insolvency matter from commencement to conclusion advising throughout on strategy, appointment, dispute resolution, asset disposal and realisation.

Jeanette sits on the Northern Ireland Insolvency Technical Committee and the Northern Ireland Insolvency Service User Group Committee. She is a member of the R3 Association. She holds Professional I and II qualifications from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

Jeanette Donohoe
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Our clients tell it best.

  • “Jeanette is a stand out solicitor in the field of insolvency. Her focus is on solutions for borrowers, directors, shareholders. She always aims to drive commercial solutions. She is pragmatic, knowledgeable and patient; a results-driven professional in every respect. Jeanette is one of our ‘go-to’ insolvency solicitors.”

  • “Jeanette is a seasoned solicitor who communicates effectively to deliver exceptional client service. A sophisticated operator, she is commercially aware and provides a clear summary of the options available to her clients, along with robust strategic recommendations.”

  • “She is predictably and consistently very good at the tough, complex cases she has.”

  • “Jeanette Donohoe leads the practice and is very experienced. Her proactive commercial approach is valued by us. She is solution-driven.”

  • “Jeanette Donohoe and Maria McNally are exceptional solicitors. In addition to their extensive legal knowledge, they demonstrate a commercial attitude to the issues they are asked to consider.”