About

With over 25 years’ successful track record of legal support for leading local, regional and global organisations, Brian Connolly has become a highly respected and experienced lawyer in the region. An incredibly proactive and ambitious individual, Connolly has taken on a variety of managerial roles at Accenture, locally and globally, leading the Irish function through a period of substantial growth. Connolly admits that a key ingredient of his success include his adaptability in the in-house role; being able to anticipate challenges, reacting to change swiftly and adding overall value particularly as the company has gone through huge changes in terms of size corporate structure, range of activities and level of complexity since 2008. Connolly has continually added value at the top table, proving his competence and adding his opinion to critical corporate strategy. No stranger to large commercial transactions, Connolly was always involved in all large-scale corporate activities, sitting on the leadership team and providing the technical legal aspect as well as supporting the compliance and regulatory side of the business. Upon joining Accenture in 2000, Connolly was the only lawyer. Proving himself to be a true asset to the business, the team has now expanded to 26 local and global roles: ‘I’ve had to learn to manage teams who engage in a wide variety of work and who don’t all serve the local market. Pulling that together and learning to do so has been very interesting and rewarding’. Prior to his time at Accenture, Connolly had a stint as legal counsel at Deutsche Bank, as well as a spell with KPMG, a captive insurance manager, and a bilateral Ireland-Germany trade organisation.