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Ireland

County Dublin, Ireland

PM Group is an Irish established, employee-owned group of companies, operating across multiple jurisdictions and continents, and provides best-in-class professional services in the areas of design, construction management and engineering for the world's leading tech, pharma, food, data and medical companies.

Specialising in all areas of banking law with particular focus on loan restructuring, workouts, enforcement and recovery, transactional type banking, appointing and acting for receivers, receivership sales, licensing applications for receivers, with strong expertise in MARP, CCMA, CPC, Personal Insolvency, Compliance and Regulatory issues, as well as advising extensively in high net worth commercial property transactions.

Appointed by Minister of Justice and Equality for 5 year term.

Set up new In-house Lawyers' Committee

Charlemont Place, Dublin 2

Providing legal advice and support to retail banking and commercial lending teams, Dealing with restructuring and advising on enforcement strategies.Providing legal advice in the areas of Data Protection, AML, CPC 2012, CCMA, Consumer Credit, conflicts of interest etc.Handling high profile High Court defence litigation cases.

124-127 St. Stephen'S Green, Dublin 2

Partnering with business leaders to provide expert legal advice and support to retail, corporate, commercial and asset finance teams;Sole responsibility for the Retail division (25% loan book) and a Wholesale property division (8% loan book);Main legal support to Banking Operations and the Regulatory Programme;Subject matter expert on the Code of Conduct for Mortgage Arrears;Understanding business and operational needs in the various different areas of the customer Bank;Research and advice on regulatory codes and policies and implications for the business;Complex security reviews, receivership appointments, restructuring loans, enforcing security, managing litigation caseload, drafting commercial legal agreements, banking and security documents, managing litigation caseload, document review;Project work, process improvements, MI reporting.

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Variety of lead/sole roles within the NAMA Project of AIB since February 2010 to include the following:Lead role on internal due diligence reporting - leading a team from start-up position, developing and growing internal reporting process and successfully delivering Tranche 3 Connections to set deadlines within 8 week period; Sole responsibility for dealing with Valuer's queries on Tranche 4 Connections- providing pragmatic and experienced legal advice to both internal and external valuations teams on complex security and title issues, assessing materiality of disclosures, implementing measures to improve Valuation process - 2 month role;Lead role in new Security Review Project within Credit Management Team - resolving difficult and contentious legal issues on Tranche 5 Connections, and successfully remediating security and title issues in an effort to minimise any potential "legal haircuts", key role in developing and growing process, successful results achieved within period of 4.5 months on 60 Connections reviewed, leading team of 7 lawyers & 1 administrator, handling staff queries, cost management, improving efficiency within and providing support to Credit Management Team, supplying useful strategies and suggestions to improve operations, following required reporting lines and tracking results for delivery to overall NAMA programme;Assigned a confidential role for 4 weeks with the Risk Management Team working on a particular project which required the review of all disclosures on Tranche 4 and 5 Connections;Acted as joint team leader on external due diligence reporting on Tranche 5 and 6 Connections as well as having responsibility for co-ordinating potential litigation following any inability to have security perfected or other security/title issues remedied, creating and compiling undertaking and title bond registers, managing external audit queries on Tranche 4 cases, and assisting on Valuations queries on Tranche 5 cases.

44/45 St. Stephen'S Green, Dublin 2

Involvement in overall management and policy-making decisions of the firm.Leading and managing a team of 15 fee earners and support staff.Monitoring individual and departmental performances within budget.Responsibility for achievement of monthly targets.Critical role in driving the Department forward including:Setting and measurement of targetsSourcing new clients and networkingRetrainingInvoicingCredit ControlRecruitment and training of new staff and dealing with staff issues.Ensuring firm's standards & ethics are upheld;Ensuring quality and efficiency of service are maintained.Ensuring Health and Safety codes and practices are complied with.All areas of commercial property representing State bodies, semi-State bodies, developers, corporate and private clients involved in the acquisition, finance, development, management and sale of commercial and residential properties, with particular expertise in large-scale property transactions involving development land, industrial property, greenfield sites, mixed-use developments, multi-tenanted office blocks, shopping centres, investment properties, managed estates and residential developments. Also experienced in commercial lending,construction law, litigation and general practice.

General practice experience to include civil litigation, PI litigation, boundary disputes, RTA offences, liquidations, probate, wills, franchising, licensing, family law and employment law.

Professional Diploma In Compliance (Licentiate Qualification), Compliance & Regulatory Matters

Professional Certificate In Consumer Credit

Certificate In Nutrition Coaching, Nutrition

Professional Qualification, Solicitor

Parts 1 And 2, Taxation Exams

Masters, Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (Hons), Economics

Activities and Societies: Arts Society, UCD Hockey - 3rd XI

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