Practice Areas
Lorna Smith is a Partner in the Irish Financial Services Regulatory team at Maples and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm. Lorna has over 15 years’ experience in financial services regulation, and in addition to more traditional industries like banking, insurance and investment services, Lorna’s practice also focuses on growth sectors such as digital assets and tokenisation, fintech, alternative lending and sustainable finance.
Lorna guides new financial institutions establishing in Ireland, across all industry sectors including MiFID investment firms and fund service providers, crypto firms, banks, insurers, e-money and payment firms, credit servicing and retail credit firms and AI.
She also regularly advises on the transfer of regulated businesses, including regulatory due diligence.