About

The Irish arm of US multinational insurance firm Liberty are assisted in a legal and commercial sense by chief counsel and company secretary Alan Johnston, from a base in Blanchardstown, Dublin. Johnston leads the legal team as head of legal with responsibility for all of Liberty Insurance Ireland’s legal matters, and complements this position by being a member of the Liberty Senior executive team and company secretary in addition to being legal adviser to the Board of Directors. Beginning his role at Liberty Insurance Ireland in 2015, Johnston provides a mixture of commercially focused and solutions driven legal advice which is dispensed to all business units and is primarily concerned with the relevant aspects of insurance law. More specifically, Johnston advises on broker agreements, MGAs, advertising agreements, sponsorship arrangements, settlement agreements, investment management agreements, non-disclosure agreements, third party vendor contracts, IT and technology agreements. Johnston is also at the forefront of the regulatory curve in the industry, including the Solvency II directive, the Consumer Protection Code, the Central Bank Corporate Governance Code and engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland. Johnston is a dual qualified lawyer having been admitted in Ireland and England and Wales, and before moving to Liberty spent 15 years in private practice at Irish law firm A&L Goodbody.