Corporate Crime & Regulation Summit 2024

Frank Cassidy, has over 30 years’ experience in the Irish prosecution service, and has held key roles including Acting Chief Prosecution Solicitor; first solicitor to the Criminal Assets Bureau on its establishment and subsequently re-joined for a six year secondment as Bureau Legal Officer; and the National Member for Ireland at Eurojust. Frank also frequently lectures on criminal law and contributes to several notable legal publications.

Nina M. Hart is a Visiting Lecturer and PhD candidate at King’s College London. Her dissertation focuses on the enforcement of economic sanctions in the EU, UK, and US, and her broader interdisciplinary research agenda investigates the techniques and effects of economic statecraft. She also teaches on law and international relations courses for the Department of War Studies and Dickson Poon School of Law. Nina previously worked as a legal adviser for international affairs for policymakers, focusing primarily on export controls and economic sanctions; international trade and investment treaty negotiations and disputes; and investigations into unfair trade practises such as economic espionage. She is a qualified solicitor in England & Wales (currently non-practising) and a qualified attorney in New York and holds law degrees from King’s College London and Columbia Law School.

Sinéad Goss is the International Head of Financial Crime Legal at Citi. Having originally trained and qualified as a corporate solicitor she joined Citi in 2007 as the EMEA Head, Investment Banking Legal. Sinéad fulfilled this role for 7 years before moving into her current role in 2014. She provides legal advice to the bank on complex AML, Anti-bribery and sanctions issues, including both advisory and investigations work. She has a particular specialism and interest in economic sanctions and has been substantially involved in navigation of the UK/EU sanctions imposed in relation to the Russia/Ukraine crisis.

Maya Lester KC, barrister at Brick Court Chambers, is a renowned sanctions expert. She is recommended as a leading silk by the directories in 6 practice areas including sanctions. The only “star individual” for sanctions work, she is one of a handful of barristers in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2024, nominated for Legal 500 international silk of the year in 2024, ranked in the 'Chambers 100 UK Bar' list, in Who’s Who as one of the world's leading competition, trade, customs and international lawyers and as a 'Thought Leader' for Brexit. As the directories put it, she is “Queen of the Sanctions Bar without a doubt” and “owns the world of sanctions”. Maya founded and co- writes www.globalsanctions.co.uk the leading online sanctions & export control resource, with over 12,000 followers worldwide. She represents and advises hundreds of companies, individuals and government departments before the European and English courts and has acted in many of the leading cases, as a member of the Bars of Ireland and of England & Wales. Maya co-chairs the UK Bar Council sanctions working group, is a very regular speaker at sanctions conferences and has given evidence on sanctions to a number of parliamentary committees.

Nick is Senior Counsel in Slaughter and May’s Disputes and Investigations Group. His practice focuses on advising major corporate entities and financial institutions in respect of civil and criminal government investigations, litigation and other controversies where allegations of misconduct have been raised. Recent matters include advising Danske Bank in relation to investigations by US and Danish criminal and regulatory authorities regarding issues arising out of its former Estonian branch, and Glencore in connection with its US$1 billion global resolution, including the largest penalty imposed on a company by an English court.

Louise Engel is a Senior Investigation Counsel at Ericsson. Louise has extensive experience in helping financial institutions and corporates navigate complex financial crime concerns, regulatory enforcement, investigations, and litigation matters. Notably, she was the Head of Group Litigation & Enforcement at Danske Bank during the US and Danish criminal and regulatory investigation into issues with its former Estonian branch.

Kenan is a partner in A&L Goodbody's Disputes & Investigations group. He leads both our White Collar Crime and Corporate Reputation groups. He has advised on many of Ireland's most high profile corporate crises in recent years. 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, cybercrime, market abuse/insider dealing 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 online defamation and disputes involving social media companies.

Kate Harnett is Of Counsel in A&L Goodbody's Disputes & Investigations group, where she specialises in white collar crime. Kate has particular expertise in international sanctions and export controls. Her practice also consists of a wide range of corporate crime matters such as corruption and anti-bribery, corporate fraud and anti-money laundering. Kate advises regularly on crisis management and regulatory investigations. Kate is an experienced advocate having spent years working in criminal defence which included trial work, advising clients in custody and defence of regulatory proceedings. She also worked as a prosecutor in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Kate also has over seven years' experience working as a corporate lawyer in large Dublin firms. Previously, Kate lectured full-time on criminology and law.

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.

Katie O'Connor is a partner and white collar crime specialist in ALG's Disputes & Investigations group. Katie works with clients to manage all aspects of their interactions with regulators and key law enforcement agencies, before, during and after investigations. She represents various Irish and international corporate clients involved in criminal and regulatory investigations and related civil litigation stemming from such investigations. She acts for a broad range of organisations including financial institutions, technology companies, construction companies, motor manufacturers, pharmaceuticals and a leading charity. Over 15 years Katie has developed considerable experience in dealing with the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB); the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB); the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC); the Health and Safety Authority (HSA); the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC); the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI); the Revenue Commissioners; the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA); and the US Office of the Inspector General (OIG). More recently, she is also advising a number of clients on the regulatory and criminal aspects of newly introduced and proposed legislation establishing new Irish regulators including Comisiun na Mean (the Media Commission), the Electoral Commission and the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland.

Alan McCarthy is a partner in A&L Goodbody's EU, Competition & Procurement group. Alan has represented clients in a range of sectors including energy, telecommunications, aviation, banking, insurance, healthcare, food and , beverages and petroleum before the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) and the European Commission. Specialising in advice on the competition law implications of mergers and joint ventures, he has advised on many of the recent mergers notified to the CCPC and on mergers notified to the European Commission. Alan also specialises in advice on competition law issues such as dawn raids and follow-on damages actions in the Irish Courts.

Anna-Marie Curran, partner, 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), the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Commission.

Dr Vincent Power, partner, specialises in advising, advocating and litigating on EU law, EU and Irish competition/antitrust law, merger control, regulatory/administrative law, transport law and EU commercial issues for public and private clients nationally and internationally. Vincent has advised on most of the leading competition, merger control, EU law, cartel, abuse of dominance, State aid, joint venture, pricing, refusal to supply, competition investigations, dawn raids, Competition Authority / CCPC and competition litigation cases in Ireland over the last 30 years including recent multi-billion euro M&A deals. He has been involved in many merger filings in Ireland and the EU.

Mark Devane is a partner in A&L Goodbody's Disputes & Investigations Group with expertise in advising on all interactions with regulatory bodies, with a particular focus on investigations by the Central Bank of Ireland and European Central Bank. As well as market leading experience on regulatory investigations, Mark's experience includes advising clients on issues relating to fitness and probity, individual accountability, whistleblowing and regulatory inspections. Mark has also represented financial institutions and other regulated entities in the financial services sector in litigation at all levels of the Irish courts.

Joe is a Director of the technology function within ALG Solutions and helps set the vision for the technology strategy, which best supports and strengthens our advice and service to clients. Joe and his team of technology specialists and analysts are responsible for leading innovation and business transformation through the adoption, implementation and integration of technologies into our legal processes and client engagements. Previously, Joe was Head of IT Innovation within Allianz Partners. In his 26 years of experience Joe has also held senior management roles within Allianz Care and Oracle while starting his career in Ericsson's. Joe holds a degree in Engineering (Electronics) and an MBA from UCD Smurfit School of Business.

Bríd Nic Suibhne is a partner in A&L Goodbody's Employment Law group. She supports employers globally across a range of sectors including tech, pharma, finance, manufacturing, professional services, healthcare and retail. She frequently advises clients on their most challenging and sensitive employment and HR related issues, both contentious and non-contentious. Bríd brings technical excellence, commercial acumen and a practical, common sense approach to complex and nuanced employment issues.

Alison Fanagan SC is a Consultant and former partner in ALG, and co-heads our Environment and Planning Group. She has over 30 years’ experience in regulatory litigation, in particular providing advice in the specialist areas of health and safety and environmental law. She has extensive experience working with the Health and Safety Authority, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on behalf of clients. Those clients come from a wide variety of sectors including waste, pharmaceuticals, technology, transport, utility provision and construction. She is especially adept at assisting clients in carefully managing their way through regulatory processes, including in urgent and stressful situations such as those involving serious injury and fatality. Her exposure to a wide variety of such interactions allows her to provide proactive, legally robust, sensible advice such that clients can best manage legal risk in a manner compatible with their business.

Chris Bollard is a partner in A&L Goodbody's market-leading Technology group. He is an expert in privacy, data protection and the regulation of online content. In these areas he also advises on regulatory engagement (including investigations, RFIs and statutory inquiries). His clients include some of the largest technology companies in the world. Chris also heads up A&L Goodbody’s cyber-incident practice.

Nicholas Cole is a partner in A&L Goodbody's Disputes & Investigations group. His practice is focused on all aspects of commercial litigation and corporate crisis management including defamation, white collar crime, investigations, corporate fraud, and shareholder disputes. Nicholas is an exceptionally experienced commercial litigator, and has market-leading expertise in advising on complex contentious matters, particularly in the technology sector. He acts for a broad range of clients including technology companies, broadcasters, public bodies, commercial banks, property funds, insurers, construction companies, commercial airlines and professional services firms. Nicholas is also a skilled advocate having previously practised at the Bar. He has appeared before the Irish Courts at all levels of jurisdiction, and before regulatory bodies, arbitral tribunals, and statutory commissions.

Joe Kelly is a Partner in A&L Goodbody's Disputes & Investigations group. Joe established the white-collar practice in the firm and continues to jointly lead the White-Collar Crime Group. Joe advises clients caught up in regulatory and police investigations and deals with prosecutions brought in the criminal courts. He is a lead adviser to financial institutions and automobile companies in relation to recent high-profile investigations in Ireland.

Mairéad O'Brien is a Senior Associate in A&L Goodbody’s Disputes & Investigations Group where she advises market leading corporates on regulatory and corporate criminal issues. Mairead is particularly experienced in advising on internal investigations, dawn raids, bribery and corruption, mandatory reporting obligations, regulatory requests for information, domestic production orders and search warrants, mutual legal assistance requests, domestic regulatory and law enforcement investigations, and cross-border investigations. Mairead also has a breadth of experience in advising clients in managing their relationships with both domestic and international regulators. Mairead’s practice is also informed by her client-side experience having acted as a legal counsel at a large multinational technology company.

Aisling is an associate in A&L Goodbody's Disputes & Investigations practice group and specialises in regulatory risks and investigations. Aisling has extensive experience in advising financial institutions and other regulated entities on all aspects of their regulatory obligations and interactions, with a particular focus on entities regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Aisling's experience includes representing clients in regulatory enforcement investigations and providing advice on a broad range of regulatory issues, including: • Individual accountability • Fitness and Probity • Administrative Sanctions • Onsite inspections

Ciara Brady is a senior associate in A&L Goodbody's Financial Regulation group. Ciara advises domestic and international credit institutions, investment firms, payment institutions, and other regulated and unregulated clients on a variety of regulatory and compliance issues. Prior to returning to A&L Goodbody, Ciara spent four years working at a leading London law firm, including a client secondment to a global inter-dealer broker.

Laura Corrigan is a senior associate in A&L Goodbody's Disputes & Investigations group and specialises in advising clients on regulatory risks and investigations. Laura has extensive experience in advising clients in all aspects of their regulatory obligations and engagement, in particular with regulators such as the Central Bank of Ireland. Laura's experience includes representing clients in regulatory enforcement investigations and providing advice on a range of regulatory reviews, including governance reviews, on-site inspections, skilled person reports and customer redress programmes. Laura advises clients on fitness and probity requirements, including the roll out of implementation programmes for the Individual Accountability Framework. Laura is also an experienced commercial litigator having spent a number of years advising clients in both the UK and Ireland on complex disputes with a particular focus on financial services litigation.