Consul General of Ireland Speaks on Vital Economic Connections Between Both Nations
December 22, 2025
Coffey Modica LLP, one of America’s fastest-growing insurance defense litigation firms, was honored to have members of the firm named to the 2025 Irish America Business 100. This annual list is a compilation of the most distinguished Irish-American and Irish-born business professionals in the United States.
Founding Partner Michael Coffey, Connecticut Managing Partner Megan E. Bryson, New York Managing Partner Patricia Mooney and Partner Lawrence Luppi were among the professionals celebrated at the Metropolitan Club on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
“What we are celebrating most this evening is the individual people themselves and their qualities,” said Consul General of Ireland in New York Gerald Angley. “They’re leading in their business organizations because of their exceptional talent, experience and drive. And they are leaders of people bringing those unique Irish social skills and emotional intelligence to better their work. We also celebrate their leadership they bring outside their day job.”
Keynote speaker and among the honorees was Heineken USA CEO Maggie Timoney. She took on the CEO role in September 2018, as the first woman to lead a major U.S. beer company, bringing extensive global brand experience. Additional remarks were heard from leaders from Invest Northern Ireland, Irish-American publisher Niall O’Dowd and Irish-American editor and co-founder Patricia Harty.
Consul General Angley highlighted the vital importance of economic ties between Ireland and America and continuing to foster relationships amongst businesses in both nations, especially as Ireland will hold the Presidency of the European Union starting in 2026. According to the Consul General, investment by Irish companies in the U.S. is worth nearly $400 billion and 200,000 people are employed by 781 Irish companies across America.
For four decades, the Irish America Business 100 has recognized the oversized impact of the Irish on corporate America and its leadership. Among 2025 honorees were 1-800-Flowers founder Jim McCann and Stew Lenoard Jr. Leaders also representing AON, BBC, Bristol Myers Squibb, Fox Corp, JP Morgan, NYSE, Gartner, Bank of Ireland, UBS, Google, Microsoft, Oura, Columbia University, UMass Health, and University of Tennessee were included among the distinguished honorees.
“I am honored to be recognized not only for my work in the legal field, but also for my Irish heritage,” says Founding Partner Michael Coffey. “I take great pride in being named to the prestigious Irish America Business 100.”
A 25-year veteran of the legal profession, Coffey is founding partner of Coffey Modica LLP. He has argued more than 125 jury trials in state and federal courts throughout the nation, while arbitrating and mediating over 300 matters to successful conclusions. Coffey is also a member of ABOTA, American Board of Trial Advocates, the pre-eminent organization that recognizes the most outstanding trial attorneys in the U.S. His family hails from Ireland on both sides with his mother’s family from Co. Donegal and his father’s side from Fermanagh in the North.
Founded in 2021, Coffey Modica continues to be one of the fastest growing law firms in the nation with offices in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia, and Florida. Coffey Modica LLP represents defendants in high-profile, high exposure matters across many disciplines and industries around the country. Known for being aggressive trial attorneys and litigators, Coffey Modica resolves matters on behalf of its clients with the most cost-effective resolutions aligned with their short- and long-term business goals and culture.
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