Ms Rowena Fitzgerald > Mason Hayes & Curran LLP > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Offices
BARROW STREET
DUBLIN 4
D04 TR29
Ireland
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Ms Rowena Fitzgerald
Work Department
Financial Services, Investment Funds
Position
Partner, Co-head of Financial Regulation
Career
Rowena is a Co-Head of the Financial Regulatory team at Mason Hayes & Curran. Rowena advises on licensing and regulatory issues applying to a range of institutions.
She advises established institutions as well as new entrants to the Irish financial services market and is noted for her expertise in the fintech sector.
Rowena advises on licensing and regulatory issues applying to credit institutions, insurance undertakings and intermediaries, investment firms, electronic money institutions and payment institutions.
Rowena frequently advises on areas such as fitness and probity, compliance with Central Bank codes of conduct, risk mitigation programmes and Central Bank enforcement actions.
Memberships
The Law Society of Ireland
Education
University of Limerick, LLB; The Honorable Society of Kings Inns, Barrister at Law
Lawyer Rankings
Ireland > Fintech
(Leading Individuals)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 advocate‘ Sarah Cloonan is also noted.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Construction
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- EU and competition
- Fintech
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Information technology
- Insolvency and corporate restructuring
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Media and entertainment
- Pensions and employee benefits
- Planning and environment
- Public sector
- Real estate
- Telecoms
- White-collar crime