Our People

Practice Areas

• Banking
• Capital Markets
• Aviation

Education

• MA (Econ & Admin), 1974, Trinity College, Dublin

Professional

• Admitted as a solicitor, 1979

Memberships

• The Company Law Review Group (Chair of a number of creditor related sub-committees)
• International Bar Association (Chair, Banking Regulation Sub-committee of Banking Law Section, former Co-chair legal opinions Sub-committee)
• Law Society of Ireland (former Chair, Business Law Committee) (lecturer in Applied Finance Law and in Insolvency and Restructuring Law)
• Board of UCD Commercial Law Centre (Chair of a number of conferences at the Commercial Law Centre)
• Board of The National Maternity Hospital (Holles Street) and of a number of finance and insurance companies
• Editorial Board Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law (London)
• Editorial Board of Commercial Law Practitioner

Authorship

• Co-editor of “Set-off Law and Practice, an International Handbook” (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2010)
• Editor of “Security over Receivables, an International Handbook” (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Co-editor of “Arthur Cox Banking Law Handbook” (Tottel, 2007)
• Co-author of “Structuring Company Lending after the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001” (Buterworths, 2001)
• Author of “Banking and Security Law in Ireland” (Butterworths, 1998)
• Author of chapters on Irish law for “Doing Business in Ireland” (LexisNexis), “Neate & Godfrey: Bank Confidentiality" (5th ed) (Bloomsbury Professional), “International Acquisition Finance” (2nd ed) (OUP), “Set-off Law and Practice” (2nd ed) (OUP), Security over Receivables (OUP), "International Banking: Law and Regulation" (Oceana), “International Secured Transactions” (Oceana), “Financial Services in the New Europe” (Graham & Trotman), “Security over Immoveables” (Kluwer) and “Bankers’ Liability: Risks and Remedies” (Kluwer)