Keith is Head of Financial Regulation team. He specialises in financial services regulation and provides advice to domestic and international clients on a wide range of regulatory issues, including structuring, licensing, prudential requirements and sectoral conduct of business rules.
Keith's clients include broker-dealers, wealth and asset managers, private equity firms, insurers, banks, non-bank lenders, payments firms, funds service providers, and crypto-asset issuers and service providers. He has 25 years' experience, including 10 years working in-house at two leading international banks and as co-founder of an alternative mortgage lender, and 8 years in London at a 'magic circle' law firm.
Keith is a Licentiate of the Compliance Institute of Ireland and is a frequent author and speaker on financial regulatory topics.
Recent representative instructions include:
- Acting for a UK investment firm in relation to its establishment and authorisation in Ireland to provide MiFID services across the EU;
- Advising a US broker-dealer in relation to regulatory perimeter issues;
- Advising an Irish insurer within a leading international insurance group in relation to the migration of its third party administration services and related outsourcing requirements;
- Acting for an innovative start-up mortgage lender in relation to its establishment and authorisation;
- Acting for a Fintech lender in relation to the relocation of its operating and funding entities to Ireland;
- Advising an international asset manager in relation to EU Anti-Money Laundering requirements;
- Advising an e-money institution in relation to its capital requirements;
- Advising the promoter of a De-Fi protocol in relation the establishment of Irish entities to engage in validation, proprietary trading and market-making activities.
