McCann FitzGerald LLP

Finance, Financial Services Regulation, Insurance, Investment Funds

Partner

Darragh Murphy graduated from University of Limerick (BA) in 1996 and University of London (LLM) in 1997 and qualified in 2000. He joined McCann FitzGerald LLP in 1997 as a Trainee and was made a Partner in 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.

The Law Society of Ireland, 2000

Member of the IFSC Funds Legislative Sub-group

Chairman of Irish Fund’s Legal & Regulatory Working Group