McCann FitzGerald LLP

Financial Services Regulation, FinTech

Josh is a partner who specialises in Financial Services Regulation and Fintech. Josh is top-ranked by IFLR1000 as a Market Leader and by Chambers Fintech Legal as Band 1.

Josh’s practice includes work relating to prudential and conduct regulation, authorisations, acquiring transactions, fitness and probity, compliance issues, transaction regulatory due diligence, regulatory investigations and remediation. He has deep experience advising clients in the areas of consumer and SME finance regulation, credit / hire purchase origination and servicing, electronic money, payment services, crowdfunding, MiFID, virtual / crypto assets, AML and market abuse.

Josh has experience working on secondment from McCann FitzGerald in an international bank and in the Government Department of Finance.

Josh became a  Partner at McCann FitzGerald LLP in 2013.

Josh has a particular interest in how technology impacts upon the delivery of financial services. He engages extensively with the Fintech ecosystem in Ireland, including through industry/Government groups such as the Fintech Foresights Group and the Digital Assets Working Group.

Josh is an officer of the Banking Law Committee of the International Bar Association. He co-chaired the IBA International Financial Law Conference (Venice, May 2022) and regularly publishes / speaks on regulatory and fintech topics.

Law Society of Ireland (2005)

Josh is on the Governing Council of the Fintech & Payments Association of Ireland and co-chairs its Regulatory Insights Group.

Graduate of University of Limerick, LL.B. Law & European Studies, LL.M. European & Comparative, Diploma in Applied Finance Law