• Financial Services

• Debt Capital Markets
• Structured Finance, Securitisation and Repackaging
• Corporate Trust & Agency
• Financial sanctions
• Privatisations

Education

• University College Cork, BCL
• University College Dublin, Postgraduate Diploma in Business Studies
• Law Society of Ireland, Diploma in French Law

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ireland
• Law Society of England & Wales

• Lead counsel to a multilateral development bank in respect of sovereign guarantees being by certain G7 members in connection with loans to Ukraine’s gas utility and electricity network.

• Lead counsel to a multilateral development bank on its entry into a €450 million Irish law InvestEU guarantee with the European Union.

• Providing ongoing advice to Black Sea Trade and Development Bank in relation to the EU’s financial services regulatory framework (including, EMIR, SFTR, MAR) and the EU’s Russia/Ukraine sanctions regime.

• Lead counsel to MM Capital Limited / Elgin Property Finance Limited in relation to the establishment of a direct lending platform in Ireland.

• Continuing legal counsel to a leading Canadian institutional asset manager (which manages public/parapublic pension and insurance programmes), on the Irish law aspects of the establishment and approval by Euronext Dublin of its US$25 billion medium term note programme and issuances thereunder.

• Advising Permanent PTSB PLC in its capacity as Noteholder of the Class V Notes issued by Glenbeigh Securities 2018-1 DAC.

• Issuer counsel to CIX Capital International DAC on its US$10 billion secured note programme.

• Trustee counsel to Apex Corporate Trustees (UK) Limited on the MBA Community Loans PLC €1 billion secured limited recourse note programme.

• Trustee counsel to Ocorian (UK) Limited Trustee Limited on the Lfeeder DAC secured variable return amount note programme.