John Breslin, SC
John Breslin is a barrister and senior counsel specialising in banking and financial services law. John has recently acted for major financial institutions in the following areas: regulatory investigations, anti-money laundering/counter terrorist financing compliance, banking regulation and consumer credit law, derivatives trading, Markets in Financial Instruments compliance, capital adequacy compliance, funds disputes and securitisation litigation. John has recently acted for the Central Bank of Ireland in proceedings under the EU Sanctions Regulation. John also regularly advises on banking and structured finance transactional issues, and has advised extensively on capital markets disputes and financial collateral. He regularly appears in the High Court, and has appeared in a number of Supreme Court cases on financial services matters. John also specialises in insolvency law, has appeared in a number of high-profile international examinerships, and appeared in the European Court of Justice for bondholders in Re Eurofood IFSC – the first case to go to the ECJ on the (then) Insolvency Regulation.
John has written extensively on a wide range of financial services topics, and is the original author of Banking Law (now in its fourth edition). John is the Chairperson of the Financial Services Bar Association, is a qualified mediator and regularly acts as expert witness as to Irish law in overseas proceedings.