Ms Judith Lawless > McCann FitzGerald LLP > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile
McCann FitzGerald LLP Offices
RIVERSIDE ONE
SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY
DUBLIN 2
Ireland
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Ms Judith Lawless
Work Department
Derivatives, Finance, Financial Services Regulation
Position
Judith has broad experience in general banking & financial services and has developed particular specialisms in relation to derivatives, structured finance and related collateral arrangements, treasury services and banking and financial regulation. She advises financial institutions and various other market participants (including corporates, investment funds, insurance companies and pension funds), both dealers and end-users. She also advises clearing houses and exchanges on Irish-specific issues relating to their services. Her work as Irish counsel in respect of many industry-standard derivatives, collateral, repo and securities lending transaction documents enhances her position as an adviser in those markets. Judith is a former President and Secretary of the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers and was a member of the European Commission’s Legal Certainty Group and the Committee on Collective Investment Governance established by the Central Bank of Ireland.
Career
Qualified in 1992
Education
Graduate of Trinity College, Dublin (LLB).
Lawyer Rankings
Ireland > Capital markets
(Leading individuals: Capital markets: Debt)McCann FitzGerald LLP has a highly developed DCM practice, which is widely respected for its strength in handling covered bonds, green bonds, social bonds, securitisations, and OTC and exchange traded derivatives; the ‘highly impressive‘ Judith Lawless has established expertise in derivatives matters. Fergus Gillen
, Adrian Farrell and Hugh Beattie have excellent reputations in DCM, securitisation and structured products, and Éamon Ó Cuív, who has returned to Dublin from the London office, garners praise for his ‘meticulous attention to detail‘. Sarah Pickering is a rising star in the debt capital markets space. ECM mandates remain prominent in the group’s workload, and David Byers and Stephen FitzSimons are key figures in equity deals. Gill Lohan is singled out for her expertise in IPOs. Aidan Lawlor and Conor O’Dwyer left the firm in 2024.
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