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Position: Partner, CoHead of Financial Regulation
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Ireland
Practice Areas:
Financial services regulatory
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Financial services
Insurance
Biography

Liam is co-head of the Financial Regulation team at Mason Hayes & Curran. In addition, Liam is the firm's Financial Services sector lead. He works with domestic and international financial institutions on important regulatory and transactional matters. He is renowned as one of Ireland’s foremost financial regulatory practitioners.

Liam's work spans the range of challenges that confront financial institutions today from authorisations to capital structuring and internal governance to corporate group reorganisations. He has special expertise in emerging areas such as AI, FinTech and Insurtech.

Liam gained unrivalled experience of the international financial markets from more than 10 years in leading City of London firms. He also has insights on the international financial regulatory system from time spent as Deputy General Counsel of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. Combining this with his experience of the Irish market here and another leading Irish law firm, he has a unique ability to advise financial institutions operating internationally and in Ireland.

His clients include domestic and international banks, re/insurers, FinTech/payments firms, investment firms and other financial firms and intermediaries.

Key practice areas
  • Financial services regulatory
Sector expertise
  • Financial services
  • Insurance
Address:
Dublin
Tel:+353 86 032 9688 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.mhc.ie/people/liam-flynn