About

The Davy Group is a financial services umbrella company for Ireland’s leading provider of stockbroking, wealth management and financial advisory services. The Group is divided into asset management, capital markets, corporate finance, private clients and research, offering services to private clients, small businesses, large corporations and institutional investors. Evelyn O’Donnell, legal associate director, leads the legal team of Davy Private Clients. The legal team has played an integral role in the Davy Group’s recent acquisitions as it continues to grow. O’Donnell credits much of the team’s success with the ‘highly collegiate and close working environment’ that the function has developed, along with the ‘analytical and well-rounded skills’ that the legal team possesses. Supporting the operations of Ireland’s leading stockbroker provides a varying mandate and a variety of day-to-day challenges for the legal department, with O’Donnell relating that the team ‘works closely with the compliance and risk functions in the business’.