Firm:	William Fry LLP
Position:	Partner, Head of Insurance
Address:	2 Grand Canal Square, Dublin, 2
Phone:	+353 1 639 5192
Email:	eoin.caulfield@williamfry.com
Personal URL:	https://www.williamfry.com/people/eoin-caulfield/

Special Areas:

Eoin is a Partner and Head of Insurance at William Fry. He joined the Firm in 1995. His practice involves a combination of (re)insurance and financial regulation, together with corporate transactional and VC/PE fund establishment work.

Deals and Awards:

Recent significant transactions include advising:

Athora on its acquisition of Aegon Ireland
AA plc on its sale of AA Ireland to Carlye Cardinal
Banco Santander on its sale to CNP Assurance of a majority interest in its Irish cross-border insurance subsidiaries
Allied World, AXA, Markel, Catalina and SCOR on various Court sanctioned mergers and amalgamations of Irish insurance and reinsurance activities
Fidelity Worldwide Investment (FIL), Santander Insurance and Chaucer on the authorisation of their Irish insurance companies
Various clients on matters including Solvency II outsourcing, enforcement actions, own funds/capital, Brexit contingency planning and structured transactions (pension de-risking, collateral and portfolio transfers)

Qualifications:

University College Dublin (BCL)
UCD Business School, MBS (Financial Services)

Memberships:

Eoin is a member of the International Bar Association Insurance Committee, Insurance Institute of Ireland; the British Insurance Law Association; and the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association. Speaking involvements include the FSI Ireland, Insurance Ireland, Institute of Directors, Chartered Accountants Ireland and the commercial and business law courses at the Law Society of Ireland.