Mr Liam Flynn > Mason Hayes & Curran LLP > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP
BARROW STREET
DUBLIN 4
D04 TR29
Ireland
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Work Department

Financial Services

Position

Partner, Head of Co-head of Financial Regulation

Career

Liam is Co-Head of the Financial Regulatory team. He works with domestic and international financial institutions on important regulatory and transactional matters. He is renowned as one of Ireland’s foremost financial regulatory practitioners.

His work spans the range of challenges that confront financial institutions today from authorisations to capital structuring and internal governance to corporate group reorganisations. He has special expertise in emerging areas such as AI, FinTech and Insurtech.

Liam gained unrivalled experience of the international financial markets from more than 10 years in leading City of London firms. He also has insights on the international financial regulatory system from time spent as Deputy General Counsel of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. Combining this with his experience of the Irish market at MHC and another leading Irish law firm, he has a unique ability to advise financial institutions operating internationally and in Ireland.

His clients include domestic and international banks, re/insurers, FinTech/payments firms, investment firms and other financial firms and intermediaries.

Lawyer Rankings

Ireland > Fintech

(Leading Individuals)

Liam Flynn – Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP‘s ‘commercial, responsive and knowledgeable‘ practice spans fintech and payments; insurtech; financial services outsourcing and privacy; and AI, where the firm expanded its offering with the arrival of Brian McElligott from an in-house role in January 2023. The team advises an enviable roster of leading fintechs on regulation, e-money and crypto licensing, and on the rollout of new products in the Irish market. It also counts major global tech companies amongst its clients. Liam Flynn, a go-to adviser on insurtech, leads the team with Rowena Fitzgerald, who is a ‘master‘ of fintech regulatory issues. ‘Strong advocateSarah Cloonan is also noted.

Ireland > Insurance

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP applies significant resources and expertise to non-contentious and contentious matters. The breadth of its contentious practice covers medical negligence, personal injury, aviation, product liability, professional indemnity, data breach litigation, and construction cases, among others. It acts for a range of domestic and international insurers and reinsurers, along with the State Claims Agency. Led by Liam Flynn, the non-contentious team has worked on a series of insurance business asset sales, investigations, corporate governance and regulatory issues. Rachel Kavanagh leads the insurance and risk (disputes) group and has an excellent record in cases across the insurance sphere, including personal injury claims, property damage claims and product liability. Deirdre Munnelly is noted for defending clients against public and employer’s liability, motor and product liability claims. The senior bench is backed by a highly-rated group of associates.