Legal Updates & Insights

Jan 2019

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In a decision handed down on 5 December last, the Court of Appeal (Irvine J, Whelan J and Baker J) has dismissed an appeal brought by a creditor of Bank of...

Jan 2019

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On the domestic front, the Director of Securities Markets Supervision, Colm Kincaid, gave a speech on the role of RegTech in financial services and the CBI published a consultation paper...

Jan 2019

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Domestically, the Director of Asset Management and Investment Banking at the CBI, Michael Hodson gave a speech on the potential ramification of a hard Brexit for Investment firms. On the...

Jan 2019

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It was a relatively busy month on the domestic front. The CBI published its latest Insurance Quarterly Newsletter and the latest edition of the Intermediary Times. It also published a...

Jan 2019

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On the domestic front, the CBI Director General Derville Rowland delivered a speech noting that the CBI has begun an analysis of 2,000-plus Irish domiciled Undertakings for the Collective Investment...

Jan 2019

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On the domestic front the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has published a suite of research on the shadow banking sector in Ireland and the role of Special Purpose Entities ...

Jan 2019

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A&L Goodbody has published our annual review of merger deals notified to Ireland's Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) in 2018.

Jan 2019

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The Companies (Amendment) Bill 2019 (the Bill) has been published. This is a very short Bill with just two proposed sections to amend section 343 of the Companies Act 2014 (the Act) with...

Jan 2019

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Davinia Brennan, Associate and Knowledge Lawyer at A&L Goodbody, considers what regulatory action we can expect to see from the Data Protection Commission (DPC) and the practicalities of enforcement.

Jan 2019

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A&L Goodbody partner Dr Vincent Power’s paper describing the lessons so far from Brexit, has been published in the Irish Journal of European Law.