Why Smart Leaders Are Ditching Technical Advice for Strategic Mapping—and Winning Big
Ever wonder how a single piece of legislation can ripple through an entire economy, shifting gears in sectors as varied as housing, energy, and major infrastructure projects? Well, the phased rollout of the Planning and Development Act 2024 is doing just that — and trust me, it’s anything but just legal mumbo jumbo to those on the front lines. For our clients at Beauchamps, navigating this transformative act is like mastering a new game with fresh rules — exciting, challenging, and absolutely pivotal for their futures. With Ireland’s housing crisis, energy transition, and infrastructure ambitions all intertwined with this groundbreaking legislation, understanding each twist and turn isn’t just smart — it’s essential. As we dive deeper into how these changes reshuffle the deck, we’ll see why aligning project strategies with the new legal framework could make or break investment decisions today and tomorrow. Curious to know how it all pans out? LEARN MORE
“The phased implementation of the Planning and Development Act 2024 continues to be very significant for our clients” – John White, Managing partner, Beauchamps
ACTIVITY
The past year has been broadly constructive for us in terms of turnover growth and adding to our partner team.
We have grown materially in recent years, particularly across housing, infrastructure energy and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Externally, market conditions have been bumpy.
Interest rate pressure and funding constraints meant that activity in parts of the property market and property finance was muted.
Ireland’s housing deficit, infrastructure pipeline and energy transition are economic and political imperatives.
Government investment and institutional capital will continue to be deployed. This creates opportunities for our expanded teams in housing and infrastructure. We have also seen sustained growth among scaling Irish enterprises.
Founder-led businesses are maturing quickly and require advisers who understand governance, capital structuring, risk and international expansion.
This is especially important for the Irish economy as the foreign direct investment market is in a volatile phase.
IMPACT OF LEGISLATION
The phased implementation of the Planning and Development Act 2024 continues to be very significant for our clients involved in housing, renewables, energy and major projects.
A fundamental reform of planning law in Ireland, the Act is critical to the implementation of both the government’s housing strategy (Delivering Homes, Building Communities), launched in November and its Accelerating Infrastructure Action Plan, published in December.
Stronger alignment between national and local policy and changes to the judicial review process are all welcome.
The phased implementation requires careful navigation as commencement orders are made and new procedural requirements take effect.
Understanding how the new framework applies to live projects, future pipelines and investment decisions is critical.
We are working closely with clients to manage transitional arrangements and align project strategy with implementation of the new legislation.
Furthermore, the Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act should attract international and institutional private rental sector investment, which ought to increase housing supply.
The Screening of Third Country Transactions Act, which came into effect in 2025, has had a significant impact on M&A deals, introducing a regulatory layer that has to be planned for and factored into a deal timeline even if that is just an analysis of whether or not the deal should be notified.
It seems that around 60 per cent of notifications made so far have been precautionary rather than mandatory, so hopefully the updated guidance document due from the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment will provide greater clarity on which transactions are notifiable.
DIGITAL CHALLENGE
While there was an easing of regulation on the sustainability side last year, the digital landscape continued to be heavily regulated.
During 2025, new legislation came into force, including key provisions of the EU Data Act, Accessibility Act and AI Act, layering onto a whole range of existing EU data and digital regulations, including the Digital Services Act and the Digital Marketing Act.
It is constantly evolving — the transposition of the NIS2 Directive on cybersecurity is overdue and the EU Digital Omnibus, which aims to streamline rules on AI, cybersecurity and data will progress this year.
All of this is having a cumulative impact on our clients.
Indeed, a big challenge is identifying what applies to different types of organisations and what their obligations are under all these interrelated regulations.
For law firms, demand has shifted from technical advice to strategic mapping of risk and designing governance structures, including on AI.
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