Seana Cunningham is Director of the Enforcement and Anti-Money Laundering Directorate in Central Bank of Ireland. She was appointed to this position in January 2018 with responsibility for overseeing enforcement investigations, AML/CFT supervision of credit and financial institutions and policy development. Seana has previously held the position of Deputy Head of the Anti-Money Laundering division and Head of the Enforcement Advisory division in the Central Bank. Prior to joining the Central Bank in 2011, Seana practised as a solicitor for over 12 years in Ireland and the UK, specialising in commercial litigation and insolvency.

Ian has extensive experience of the conduct of statutory investigations, both civil and criminal, in plc, large private, SME, charity and not for profit environments. As a current NED of the Medical Council of Ireland and a former Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority, he also has extensive experience of the statutory regulation of professions. He is a member of the Advisory Council on Economic Crime & Corruption and the Company Law Review Group, both of which are charged with providing advice to Ministers/Government. An accountant by profession, he also holds a B.Sc. in Leadership & Governance from UCD, a Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Governance from the Smurfit Business School and a Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate & Regulatory Crime from the King’s Inns.

Conor advises clients across the technology, transport, financial services, retail and consumer goods sectors. He helps businesses and their senior leaders to tell their stories in an accessible, memorable and impactful way. His work with Teneo encompasses all aspects of communications strategy including core narrative development, crisis/issue management, CEO advisory and executive coaching/media training. Prior to joining Teneo, Conor was a financial journalist and radio presenter with Ireland’s state broadcaster RTÉ.

Michael is senior partner at Peters & Peters LLP, London. Michael was called to the Bar in 1992 and, prior to joining Peters & Peters, was a senior specialist prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Headquarters. There, he was a key member of a small specialist unit responsible for the prosecution of serious and high-profile fraud, terrorist, state-security and special interest criminal matters, including the Stansted Airport Afghan airline hijacking and the prosecution of Paul Burrell (Princess Diana’s butler). Since joining Peters & Peters, Michael has acted for companies, senior executives and HNW individuals in many of the most high-profile and complex national and international business crime cases. He has particular expertise in sanctions. Michael regularly appears in the media to discuss sanctions and co-writes the leading sanctions blog 'European Sanctions Law'.

Based in Dublin, Marion works closely with Fidelity’s global investment team to integrate sustainability analysis into their investment decision-making process. Marion also focuses on sustainable product development and strategy, and sustainable finance regulatory requirements. Marion joined Fidelity International in October 2010 and her previous roles at Fidelity have included Proxy Voting Analyst for Europe and the USA and Lawyer in the Investment Legal Team assisting on drafting derivative documentation and third-party contracts. Prior to joining Fidelity, Marion worked as a private client lawyer in P.J. Walsh & Company, Solicitors in Dublin, Ireland. She is a qualified lawyer in Ireland, England and Wales.

Máire Reidy is regulatory counsel at Stripe, Dublin. Máire has extensive legal and regulatory experience in the area of financial services, having worked in private practice, with the regulator and in-house in financial services firms. Máire was called to the Bar in 2003 and practiced as a barrister before joining the Central Bank in 2012, where she spent a number of years as a lawyer within the Central Bank's Enforcement Division. Before joining Stripe, Máire worked as regulatory counsel at financial technology firm Fexco and before that as an associate within the Financial Services practice group at Mason Hayes & Curran. Máire has also lectured in law at a number of third level institutions across Ireland.

Kenan leads both ALG's White Collar Crime Group and our Corporate Reputation team. He has market leading expertise in white collar crime, reputational issues, and business-critical commercial disputes. Kenan advises on internal investigations, whistleblowing complaints, dawn raids, money laundering, bribery/corruption and export controls/sanctions issues. He also advises clients on managing their relationships with various regulators in Ireland and abroad. Kenan's corporate reputation practice involves advising on reputational issues, including crisis communications and defamation cases. He has particular expertise in internet-based defamation.

Laura Mulleady is a partner in ALG's Corporate and M&A practice, specialising in insurance. Her practice is focused on advising domestic and cross-border insurers, reinsurers, captives and intermediaries on all aspects of non-contentious insurance and reinsurance regulation and transactions. In recent times, Laura has been particularly involved with business transfers and amalgamations involving insurers and reinsurers and in advising on Brexit-related projects. Laura was named in the global list 'IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2022'.

Dario leads ALG's Investigations Practice and is Head of our Regulatory Investigations Group. He coordinates a combined team providing financial regulatory, governance and strategic advice to Boards and Executive teams on a range of regulatory reviews, compliance remediation and redress programmes and enforcement investigations. Dario has acted on a large range of Central Bank enforcement investigations and related complaints and litigation and has advised clients in financial services and other sectors on implementing, reviewing and enhancing compliance programmes.

Stephen is a partner in the Asset Management & Investment Funds Group and Head of the London office at A&L Goodbody. Stephen advises international asset management firms and investment banks in relation to the establishment and authorisation of all types of investment funds including UCITS, AIFs, exchange traded funds (ETFs), money market funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and property funds as well as authorisation of UCITS management companies and alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs). He also acts for the promoters of, and service providers to, Irish domiciled investment funds including investment managers, fund administrators and depositaries in relation to depositary, administration, prime brokerage and other service agreements.

Louise is a partner in ALG's Disputes & Investigations Group. Her practice is focused on white collar and corporate crime matters. She has in-depth experience conducting and advising on complex, multi-jurisdictional investigations involving a wide range of Irish and foreign regulatory and enforcement authorities. She also advises on the design and implementation of anti-bribery and corruption policies, managing whistleblowing complaints, international sanctions and money laundering issues. She also previously worked in-house at several international financial institutions in London.

Enda Hurley is a partner and Co-Head of A&L Goodbody's Disputes & Investigations group. Enda advises domestic and international corporate clients on a broad range of contentious commercial matters, including securities, tax, financial products, real estate and disclosure matters. He has significant experience handling multi-party litigation in the Commercial Court and pathfinder cases in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He has advised Irish and U.S. listed companies on multi-billion euro/dollar schemes of arrangement and capital restructurings, involving cross-jurisdictional securities/shareholder litigation. Enda regularly advises on mediation, arbitration and contentious commercial negotiations.

Michael is a partner in ALG's Employment Law Group. He advises domestic and international employers across a wide range of sectors on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. He has significant expertise advising on establishing whistleblowing policy and procedure frameworks, the conduct of internal and external investigations and managing whistleblowing complaints. Michael has successfully defended a number of employers in whistleblowing-related penalisation claims before the WRC and Labour Court. He also regularly advises on corporate crisis management and boardroom level disputes.

Sinéad Lynch is a partner in the Corporate and M&A practice, specialising in Insurance & Reinsurance. Sinéad’s experience covers a wide range of aspects of (re)insurance law and regulation. These include the set up and authorisation of insurers, reinsurers and insurance intermediaries, ongoing regulation, provision of cross-border services. She also advises on the full spectrum of advisory and transactional matters. These include the sale/purchase/transfer of insurance companies/businesses, restructurings, domestic and cross-border portfolio transfers; outsourcing and distribution models and connected issues; as well as enforcement and investigation matters. Sinéad is a member of the Firm's Climate Action Group. Sinéad has advised on various ESG matters, and been involved in supporting clients with training and preparations in this space.

Noeleen is a partner in A&L Goodbody's Employment Law Group with considerable experience advising domestic and international clients on all aspects of employment law and industrial relations matters. Noeleen advises clients across a broad range of sectors on contentious and non-contentious employment law issues, including the defence of complex employment litigation and the conduct of internal HR processes. She also regularly advises corporate clients on large-scale projects, including reorganisations and restructurings, employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions and large scale outsourcing projects.

Dr John Cahir is a partner in the A&L Goodbody's Commercial & Technology group. His practice covers both contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property, information technology, data protection and media law. John advises clients across a wide range of industry sectors on their Commercial & Technology law requirements. He has acted on some of the highest profile technology disputes to come before the Irish courts as well as on the leading transactions. John acts for many of the multinational corporations that have established their European operations in Ireland and he also advises a wide spectrum of domestic clients.

Mark is a partner in ALG's Regulatory Investigations Group. Mark's deep experience with Central Bank of Ireland and European Central Bank investigations over the last twelve years has made him a leading advisor to clients on engaging with regulatory investigations. Mark also has significant experience in engagements with regulators and clients on fitness and probity, individual accountability and on-site inspections.

Anna-Marie Curran is a partner in the EU, Competition & Procurement group. She has extensive experience in competition law, procurement law, sectoral regulation, EU and Irish merger filings, cartels, State aid, competition law enforcement and immunity applications. Anna-Marie advises a wide range of clients across contentious and non-contentious competition law and procurement law matters. She has represented clients in the Irish and Northern Ireland courts and before the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) and the European Commission.

Chris is a partner in ALG's Commercial & Technology Group. He is an expert in data protection, privacy and information technology law. His clients include some of the largest technology companies in the world. Chris advises on all aspects of compliance with data protection law, including data breach response, the ePrivacy regime, international transfers and technical product counselling. He has particular expertise advising on regulatory investigations involving data breaches and data protection. Chris has counselled clients through all levels of engagement with the Data Protection Commission (including statutory enquiries).

Sinéad Smith is Head of Corporate Responsibility in A&L Goodbody having joined the firm in 2012. Previous to working in A&L Goodbody, Sinéad was the Corporate Responsibility Manager in Telefónica O2 for seven years. Sinead has a wealth of experience in delivering Corporate Responsibility programmes effectively and is responsible for the management and implementation of A&L Goodbody's Responsible Business strategy. The objective of A&L Goodbody's most recent strategy is to continue to fully embed responsible business practices, using an ESG framework, into all decision making and behaviour particularly focussing on how we run the business, the services we deliver and the external initiatives we support.

Tríona is a Knowledge lawyer in the ALG's Employment Law Group. Tríona has extensive experience advising on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment issues and representing parties in employment disputes before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the civil courts. She has particular expertise advising on internal investigations and whistleblowing issues. Tríona provides professional support to the Group and clients in relation to all aspects of employment law. She is a lecturer in employment law at the Law Society of Ireland and regularly contributes to publications on employment law topics.

Kate Harnett is a senior associate in ALG's Disputes & Investigations Department and a senior member of our Sanctions and Export Controls Group. Kate has in-depth experience advising large Irish and multinational businesses on sanctions obligations, compliance issues and managing risk. Since the recent EU sanctions were introduced, Kate has been working very closely with other departments across the firm, the aviation department in particular, in assisting clients with their EU sanctions obligations. Kate has also spoken at numerous events and published articles on the topic of sanctions.

Clara is an associate in ALG's Disputes & Investigations Group, where she specialises in white-collar crime. Her practice focuses on issues including corporate fraud, bribery/corruption, market abuse, money laundering and company law breaches. Clara has particular expertise advising on whistleblowing complaints and regularly lectures on this topic. She has significant experience advising corporate and individual clients on internal and external investigations involving whistleblowers and managing engagement with law enforcement and regulators, including the ODCE, the Data Protection Commission and the Gardaí. She also regularly advises on corporate crisis management, including some of Ireland's most high-profile crises in recent years.

Christopher Martin is an Of Counsel with over 10 years' experience working in both the public and private sectors advising on legal and regulatory issues, including experience in the Central Bank. He advises domestic and international credit institutions, investment firms, payment institutions, and other regulated and unregulated clients on regulatory and compliance issues, including conduct of business and prudential requirements, authorisation and passporting requirements, acquisitions and disposals, corporate governance, fitness and probity, AML/CFT, financial sanctions, structuring and best practice norms.

Laura Corrigan is a senior associate in ALG's Disputes & Investigations Group. Laura represents clients in all aspects of engagement with regulators such as the Central Bank of Ireland and Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman. Laura's experience includes significant involvement in representing clients in regulatory enforcement investigations and providing regulatory, governance and strategic advice on a range of regulatory reviews and redress programmes.

Aisling Ennis is a solicitor in ALG's Disputes & Investigations Group. Aisling has experience advising banks and other financial service providers on a range of financial regulatory matters including, for example, enforcement investigations carried out under the Central Bank's Administrative Sanctions Procedure and onsite inspections carried out by the Central Bank. Aisling's experience also includes advising regulated clients on their governance and risk management obligations.

Chloe is a senior associate in ALG's Regulatory Investigations Group. Chloe has extensive experience in advising on complex disputes and investigations, and the management of litigation and regulatory risks. She has acted for financial institutions in enforcement action taken by the Central Bank of Ireland and the UK's Financial Conduct Authority. She has also acted for other regulated entities in contentious matters, including regulatory action and engagement.