Shane Kelleher is a Partner in William Fry’s Financial Regulation Group and Corporate Department. He advises clients on all aspects of financial regulation including regulatory issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions and disposals of qualifying holdings in regulated entities, authorisations and extension or surrender of authorisations, compliance with conduct of business requirements, fitness and probity, corporate governance, market abuse and transparency requirements. Shane advises regulated entities including credit institutions, MiFID investment firms, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, investment business firms, other financial institutions and investors in the financial services sector on compliance with regulatory standards and the impact of new regulatory developments at Irish and EU levels. He is a member of William Fry’s Regulatory Enforcement Group. Shane has considerable experience of working in general company and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and banking and financial services law practices at William Fry and he brings the benefit of this varied practice base to his work for clients in his specialist area of financial regulation.
William Fry LLP
William Fry LLP‘s ’superb' multi-disciplinary fintech group has expertise in the full spectrum of financial regulatory, tech, data protection and corporate matters in this space. The firm has a thriving practice relating to the regulatory authorisation of e-money institutions and virtual asset and crowdfunding service providers, and its offering also extends to advising global fintechs, start-ups and tech multinationals on the launch of new products and on the procurement of new tech. Financial regulatory specialist Shane Kelleher and John O’Connor, a ‘market leader’ in tech, outsourcing and data protection, head the team. Louise McNabola is also noted for her regulatory work, while Máire O’Neill focuses on fintech M&A.
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‘The firm stands out for the depth of the team's expertise on corporate transactions and the accessibility and availability across the team. Also, the William Fry fintech team are very good at ensuring the client is sure-footed during a transaction.’
‘Máire O'Neill is very focused on providing the client with best-in-class legal advice and on-point service.’
‘The William Fry fintech group is superb.’
‘The team at William Fry provides significant depth and a range of expertise to cover the most complex and sophisticated projects in the fintech industry.’
‘Knowledgable, experienced and responsive.’
‘Most experienced team in the Dublin market. Collective cross-sectoral strength of individuals.’
‘John O'Connor is a market leader and standout practitioner. John cuts through the complexities to find the nub of any problem and always delivers a pragmatic solution. He also has encyclopaedic case law knowledge.’
'Shane Kelleher is always ready to provide us with high-level strategic advice when appropriate.'
Key clients
- Experian Ltd
- European Commission
- ConsenSys
- Saol Assurance
- Elavon Financial Services DAC
- Digital Capital Management
- Moneycorp
- Momentive Europe Unlimited
- Middlegame Ventures
- Supply Finance Limited
- Fidelity Investment Managers (Ireland) Limited
- Surestone Insurance
- W3BCLoud
- Payoneer Europe Limited
- Associated Foreign Exchange Ireland Limited
- Loylap (Smart Points Limited)
- FINEOS Corporation Holdings PLC
- Tines Security Services Limited
- Paygate
- CR2
- EagleAlpha Limited
- OFX Payments Limited
- Soldo
- Modulr FS Europe Limited
- Apata Limited
- August Equity LLP
- AQ Metrics Limited
- Fenergo Group/Freedom Topco Limited
- Wefunder EU BV
- Numerix LLC
- CBPE Capital LLP
- UKG Inc.
Work highlights
- Acting for electronic money institutions which have secured authorisation in Ireland (including Payoneer, SumUp, Optal, Modulr, Moneycorp, OFX and Soldo).
- Acting as Irish counsel for ConsenSys, a U.S.-headquartered blockchain technology innovator and vendor, on its non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet (MetaMask) which is used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain, and its use of generative AI.
- Advised UKG Inc., the U.S.-based software-computer company, on the acquisition of Immedis Limited, an Irish-headquartered leading global payroll provider.
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John is a Partner in William Fry’s Technology Group, the most experienced technology law team in the Irish market. He specialises in complex and large scale technology and outsourcing transactions including systems integration and implementation arrangements, licensing, IT and business process outsourcings and cloud services. John is also a specialist in the area of privacy, data protection and cyber security law and advises on general compliance, data transfers, hosting, issue management and best practice. He has gained particular experience of advising technology, life sciences and financial services organisations on major outsourcings and on ‘big data’ projects including the procurement and deployment of FinTech.
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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Shane Kelleher, John O'Connor