About

Founded in 1966, AIB is a financial services group that operates primarily in the Republic of Ireland and the UK. Group general counsel for the company since 2012, Helen Dooley began her legal career in 1992 and is one of Ireland’s most experienced and talented general counsel. Over the course of her 25-year career she has worked in senior legal positions at a number of high profile institutions such as A&L Goodbody, Hewlett-Packard Financial Services and EBS. Today Dooley leads around 150 AIB lawyers in a legal function that she has designed to be as closely aligned to the business as possible by determining the strategic and operational priorities for the department. She also advises AIB’s board on a range of issues including corporate governance matters. Recent activities Dooley has been involved in for AIB have been diverse and include securing €60m via the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland’s (SBCI) €150m Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme to support the working capital needs of Irish farmers and SMEs engaged in primary agriculture and, separately, providing €3.5m in funding for a new season of the internationally acclaimed TV series Jack Taylor. Dooley graduated in law from University College London in 1990.