About

Colin Fuller joined Rabobank in 2008 as head of legal and compliance. He highlights that, ‘the organisation [has] changed a lot in the years since, but is back to [being] very similar set to the way that [I] joined it’. He qualified as a lawyer in a general practice in 1999 and at the same time sat the institute of tax exams and qualified as a tax adviser. On the back of that he worked in a tax boutique, Warren and Partners, and then the tax department of two of the big five Irish firms, Matheson and William Fry. He then decided to move in-house working for four years in Citibank Europe in Dublin before taking up his current role. Qualifying as a tax adviser at the same time as a general practice solicitor gave Fuller a broader viewpoint of professional services, and as he says, more varied work. He adds; ‘Getting the opportunity to work in two of the big five law firms, as you experience such a broad range of work there and get to work with excellent people who set very high standards installs in you a focused work ethic’. Moving to an in-house role to use legal and tax experience more commercially, he states, ‘helps an organisation make decisions at an early stage and mould the way projects progress’. A highlight in his time at Rabobank has been structuring the award winning Milkflex lending fund, a flexible loan for dairy farmers.