About

With considerable experience both in-house and in private practice, Syl O’Byrne established both Carne Groups’ and Daiwa Securities’ (now Sumitomo Mitsui) legal functions from scratch. He was also Credit Suisse’s Irish legal head from 2010 to 2014, during a period of ‘rapid regulatory change’ and considerable restructuring for the national business. When it comes to outside counsel, O’Byrne is an advocate for agreeing and sticking to fixed-fee arrangements, to avoid uncertainty and ‘fee creepage’.