Darragh Murphy

Practice Areas

Insurance & Reinsurance, Financial Services Regulation, Insurance, Investment Funds

Career

Qualified in 2000. Graduate of the Universities of Limerick (BA) and London (LLM) and a partner since 2009. Darragh specialises in advising on regulatory and commercial matters relevant to financial services businesses, including insurance undertakings, investment management operations, fund promoters, banking entities and payment service providers.

Darragh’s practice covers all aspects of carrying on regulated financial services and consumer credit related activities in Ireland whether in relation to the authorisation of entities in this sector, their ongoing business requirements (customer, counterparty and/or regulator facing) and/or problem resolution.

He advises extensively on the regulated activities of insurance and reinsurance undertakings and has worked on many significant transactions. He also helps banks and other financial institutions to deal with payment services and other FinTech matters, such as SEPA payment systems, credit cards, payment instruments and e-money.

Darragh actively participates in a number of industry bodies. In particular, he is a member of the IFSC Funds Legislative Sub-group and Chairman of Irish Fund’s Legal & Regulatory Working Group.