Practice notes and precedents covering the creation and enforcement of bilateral facility agreements, security over different types of assets and guarantees in finance transactions.
Guidance on the authorisation and supervision of Irish financial institutions and the regulation of a wide range of areas include anti money laundering, fintech, payment services and e-money, credit, insurance and crowdfunding.
Transactional lawyers need to stay on top of market changes. We track developments of key industry bodies such as the LMA and ISDA as well as hot topics to help keep you updated.
Q&A guides provide jurisdiction specific information and overviews on financial services litigation, securities litigation and fintech.
The Board of Supervisors (BoS) of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and the BoS of the European Securities and...
The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has scheduled a members-only meeting of the Financial Industry Forum—Innovation Subgroup for 19 March 2026 at the...
Ireland-Banking & Financial Services analysis: This article, written by Sarah McCague, partner and Daniel Watters, partner of Arthur Cox LLP, notes...
Law360, London: An aircraft leasing company and two others have reached a settlement with a dozen reinsurers that they claimed should cover for the...
Ireland-Banking and Financial Services analysis: This article, written by A&L Goodbody’s Team, notes that at European level, the European Banking...
ISDA—latest news on documentationThis Practice Note contains a summary of new and updated documents published by the International Swaps and...
Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements—scopeThis Practice Note considers the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements which applies to...
Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements—jurisdictionThis Practice Note considers the application of the Hague Convention on Choice of Court...
Loan Market Association (LMA)—latest news on documentationThis Practice Note contains a summary of the latest news from the Loan Market Association...
EU regulation of cryptoassetsScope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note focuses on the approach of EU authorities and regulators (ie, the European...
Ireland—Deed of partial release: for a debenture or mortgage—single company security provider—partial releaseGeneralThis Precedent can be used for a...
Ireland—Deed of release: for a debenture or mortgage—single company security provider—full releaseGeneralThis Precedent can be used for full release...
Bilateral debenture for a chargor incorporated as a limited company in Ireland to secure the chargor’s obligations to the lender on an all monies...
Legal opinionIt is common practice to use legal opinions in the vast majority of cross-border finance transactions. They provide the addressee of the...
Ireland—Execution clause—partnership—contractThis Precedent is an execution clause for use by a partner on behalf of the partnership when entering...
There has been ongoing debate regarding the scope of the definition of ‘ICT services’ under DORA, even in the final push towards the DORA...
Ireland—Insurance portfolio transfersScope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note provides guidance on an insurance portfolio transfer pursuant...
The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has just published its Regulatory & Supervisory Outlook Report 2025.As part of the new supervisory...
Ireland—Legal opinions—uses, scope and structureLegal opinions are invariably used in cross-border financing transactions. They are usually either a...
Ireland—Key features of debenturesDebentures are used in many types of financing where it is desirable to take security over all of the assets of a...
Ireland—GuaranteesGuarantees are typically used in banking transactions as a form of collateral for a debt. In such circumstances, they are a...
Corporate tax payments have continued to bolster the Irish budget despite international tax initiatives like the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
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Ireland—Regulation of payment services providersPayment service providers—the regulatory frameworkSI No 6/2018 EU (Payment Services) Regulations 2018...
Ireland—Regulation of crowdfunding in IrelandThis Practice Note discusses the regulation of crowdfunding in Ireland under Regulation (EU) 2020/1503...
Ireland—Releasing securityIntroductionTo deal with the discharge and release of security, it is necessary to consider:•the conditions to be satisfied...
Differences between Irish insurance and UK insurance lawThis Practice Note examines the key differences between Irish insurance law and UK insurance...
Ireland—Financial assistance in secured lending transactionsIntroductionSection 82 of the Companies Act 2014 (Ireland) (CA 2014 (IRL)) is a key...
AIB Group Plc announced €1.7bn worth of shareholder rewards, including a planned €700m cash dividend, after a 170% surge in profits for 2023.The...
The definition of ‘ICT services’ under DORA is intentionally broad, and encompasses digital and data services provided through ICT systems on an...
Ireland—Money laundering offences and regulationThis Practice Note looks at the principal money laundering offences in Ireland including the...
Metrics for law firm performanceHow does an in-house lawyer measure the performance of their external law firms? Paul Gilbert sets out some...
The EBA has published three sets of final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) and one set of final draft ITS relating to the authorisation as...
Term associated with the goal of EU Directives which is to harmonise certain concepts across all EU Member States’ legislations.
Horizontal direct effect is an EU law doctrine that allows a private party to invoke EU law before a national court against another private party.
Packet delay variation. It is defined by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) as: 'End-to-end 2-point IP packet delay variation (PDV) is defined based on the observations of corresponding IP packet arrivals at ingress and egress MP (eg MPDST, MPSRC). These observations characterise the variability in the pattern of IP packet arrival events at the egress MP and the pattern of corresponding events at the ingress MP with respect to a reference delay.' Jitter may be caused by electromagnetic interference and crosstalk with carriers of other signals and can introduce clicks or other undesired effects in audio signals and loss of transmitted data between networks.