Breen Purcell | Fieldfisher
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Professional background

Professional background

I lead the Real Estate Department comprising a team of Lawyers who provide a wide range of services to Financial Institutions, Government Agencies, Retailers, Property Developers, Receivers and Local Authorities.

I adopt a commercial, pragmatic and personal approach to transactions in order to bring my clients through the more complex and diverse legal issues that may arise in any given transaction.

I have overseen the management of many hundreds of acquisitions and disposals by the Housing Agency and the Local Authorities in the Social Housing Sector.

I advise a number of large Irish Retailers in the acquisition of their nationwide retail outlets and upon all of their Landlord and Tenant issues arising on an ongoing basis.

I manage and provide high level advice to a number of Financial Institutions in relation to the security held over their property backed assets and their ongoing disposals of their portfolios of property backed loans.

I am an experienced public speaker, and regularly deliver in-house training seminars and workshops to lending institutions and their customers on a range of topics to include prescriptive easements, certification of title and competing priorities.

Awards & recognition

Awards & recognition

Legal 500 EMEA 2019
Apart from providing advice on residential, mixed-use and commercial developments, the team around ‘pragmatic’ and ‘knowledgeable’ name partner Breen Purcell has been very active in the social housing sector, acting for local authorities and housing bodies.
Legal 500 EMEA 2018
Extremely good at driving out solutions to difficult and challenging transactions in the real estate sector.  Breen is tenacious and good at getting deals over the line

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A row of modern, two-story suburban houses with brick and white exteriors lines a quiet street. The homes have pitched roofs, chimneys, and small front gardens. The sky is partly cloudy with sunlight illuminating the scene.
Real Estate
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Navigating Europe’s rent reform landscape: what investors need to know

04.02.2026
Across Europe, governments are tightening regulation in residential rental markets, reshaping the risk and return profile for private rented sector (PRS) investment. The direction of travel is clear: greater tenant protections and additional constraints on landlord flexibility, particularly around possession, rent re-pricing and lease structuring. 
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What others say…

Legal 500 EMEA 2019
Apart from providing advice on residential, mixed-use and commercial developments, the team around ‘pragmatic’ and ‘knowledgeable’ name partner Breen Purcell has been very active in the social housing sector, acting for local authorities and housing bodies.
Legal 500 EMEA 2018
Extremely good at driving out solutions to difficult and challenging transactions in the real estate sector.  Breen is tenacious and good at getting deals over the line