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Kelleher, Shane


Firm: William Fry LLP
Position: Partner, Head of Financial Regulation Unit
Address: 2 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2
Phone: +353 1 639 5148
Email: shane.kelleher@williamfry.com
Personal URL: https://www.williamfry.com/people/shane-kelleher/

Special Areas:

Shane is a Partner and the Head of Financial Regulation at William Fry.

He advises clients on all aspects of financial regulation including regulatory issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions and disposals of qualifying holdings in regulated entities, authorisations and extension or surrender of authorisations, compliance with conduct of business requirements, fitness and probity, corporate governance, market abuse and transparency requirements. Shane advises regulated entities including credit institutions, MiFID investment firms, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, investment business firms, other financial institutions and investors in the financial services sector on compliance with regulatory standards and the impact of new regulatory developments at Irish and EU levels. He is a member of William Fry’s Regulatory Enforcement Group.

Deals and Awards:

Shane Kelleher is ranked in Band 1 for FinTech in Chambers FinTech 2023.

"Shane is a real asset. His advice and work was of excellent quality. Shane is not only an expert in all things payments, e-money and VASP; he also has the rare ability to distil local requirements into digestible points." Chambers Europe 2023

Career:

William Fry are the market leaders in securing Central Bank authorisations of regulated Fintechs including electronic money institutions, payment institutions, account information service providers and payment initiation service providers. For example, Shane and his team have secured 40% of electronic money institution authorisations granted in Ireland to date including 80% of electronic money institution authorisations granted in Ireland in 2020 alone. Shane is Co-Chair of the Regulatory Group of the Fintech & Payments Association of Ireland.

Qualifications:

Thames Valley University - LLB with French Law
Toulouse University - Diploma in European Law
Essex University - Masters in International Human Rights Law

Memberships:

Law Society of Ireland

 


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