Niamh
Mulholland
Partner
Niamh is a Partner in the Financial Institutions Group.
For 20 years, Niamh has specialised in financial services regulatory matters, with experience across all of the traditional sector classifications, Asset Management, Insurance and Banking.
Her primary focus is on providing advice to Irish and International Investment Banking, Investment Firm and Investment Fund clients, through authorisation, regulatory change projects, supervisory engagements, Firm ‘Own Initiative’ Reviews’, Supervisory Risk Mitigation Programmes and Skilled Person Independent Reviews.
Experience and Education
Niamh has advised a global suite of asset management clients on the following matters, advising:
- major international financial groups on the establishment of regulated entities, in particular MiFID investment firms and fund service providers;
- on licencing and change of business model application projects driven largely by the recent CRD 6 legislative change;
- banking and other financial services firm entrants to the Irish market on the comparators between the CBI and FCA authorisation applications and early establishment processes;
- on regulatory impacts of institutional design and re-organisation, reflecting Irish and EU, governance, risk, control and prudential requirements for individual regulated financial institutions and their Groups, for example the EU IPU regime; (‘prudential isn’t the start of a new bullet);
- on the regulatory aspects of high value mergers, acquisitions, disposals as well as the restructuring of corporate groups;
- on a Skilled Person Independent Review, pursuant to the Central Bank of Ireland (Supervision and Enforcement Act 2013); and on regulatory investigations and enforcement actions;
- global financial services clients on key changes across the prudential and conduct regulatory sphere. In particular, CRD, IFR/IFD, MiFID, MAR, BRRD, AIFMD, Client Assets, IIA, UCITS and enhancements to the EU AML/CTF regulatory framework.
- clients on their response to Central Bank of Ireland Risk Mitigation Programmes, Thematic Reviews, On-Site Inspections and PRISM engagement meetings.
- Honourable Society of Kings Inns
- University College Dublin (BBLS)