Matheson LLP

Partner in the Financial Institutions Group

Niamh Mulholland is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group. Prior to joining Matheson, Niamh worked for a global consultancy business where she led the Irish Asset Management Regulatory Practice. Her primary focus was on providing advice to Irish and International Investment Banking, Investment Firm and Investment Fund clients, through authorisation, regulatory change projects, supervisory engagements, Risk Mitigation Programmes and Skilled Person Independent Reviews. She has advised clients with ‘own initiative’ reviews and change programmes as well as responses to Central Bank of Ireland supervisory inspections.

Niamh has extensive experience advising clients on the assessment and implications of AIFMD, UCITS, AML/CTF legislation, MiFID II/MiFIR, CRD/CRR, the Client Assets and Investor Money Regulations, the Investment Intermediaries Act, the Central Bank of Ireland Supervision and Enforcement Act, the ICAV Act and more recently the ILP (Amendment) Act 2020.

Niamh previously worked at the Central Bank of Ireland, where she acted as the ESMA Board of Supervisors internal co-ordinator. She was a member of a number of ESMA Standing Committees and was involved in the negotiations to enact the EU Market Abuse Regulation and Criminal Sanctions Directive and MiFIR II/MiFIR during the Irish Presidency of the European Council.

Niamh is a regular speaker on the topics of MiFID II, IFD/IFR, AML/CTF, CP86, and AIFMD Reform and is has published a number of articles on these topics.

Honourable Society of Kings Inns

University College Dublin (BBLS)