FinTech Legal - Ireland
Band 2
What the Team is Known For
A&L Goodbody represents big tech companies and payments processors, as well as financial institutions and start-up FinTechs. The team's expertise includes IPOs, M&A and joint venture agreements, as well as regulatory compliance advice and licensing applications.
Strengths
A&L Goodbody provides high-quality advice. They are reliable, professional and very responsive. They are pleasant to deal with.
A&L Goodbody has a dynamic team able and willing to provide practical and actionable advice that can be easily translated into business decision-making.
A&L Goodbody understands our market and business well. They go the extra mile to understand our complexities. They are very proactive.
Notable practitioners
Eimear O'Brien advises FinTechs on a broad range of regulatory compliance matters. O'Brien recently joined A&L Goodbody's financial regulation group.
Eimear is great, really amazing, really knowledgeable and approachable. She shares valuable information and tries to understand the business and what’s needed.
Eimear is incredibly well researched, always up to speed on the current regulatory environment and the communication is very clear.
Eimear is an assured, responsive and highly intelligent practitioner. She approaches all problem solving with a creative, commercial and risk-based lens.
Patrick Brandt is a partner and head of the financial regulation practice group at A&L Goodbody. Brandt advises banks and FinTechs on financial services and payments law regulatory matters.
Patrick Brandt is a great lawyer with valuable insights on complex regulatory legal issues.
Patrick is a highly experienced and knowledgeable financial regulatory partner with strong commercial awareness.
Patrick Brandt is a clear communicator and experienced in his field.
Eoin O'Connor is an expert on financial services regulation and often advises on Central Bank of Ireland authorisation and licensing matters. O'Connor also advises FinTechs and incumbent financial institutions on transactional matters.
Eoin has a laser focus on his client's interests and approaches a diverse range of issues and problems with calm expertise and thoughtful judgement.
Louise Hogan is a senior associate at A&L Goodbody and an expert in financial regulation. Hogan advises payments processors, banks, e-money institutions, and other FinTechs on regulatory matters.
What distinguishes Louise Hogan is her responsiveness and ability to deliver clear, commercially focused advice on highly complex issues.
I really enjoy working with Louise - she is very experienced and genuinely interested in payments, which elevates her advice.
Louise Hogan is very precise and quick. She's reassuringly thorough in her analysis and how she presents things.
