FinTech Legal - Ireland
What the team is known for
McCann FitzGerald assists major financial institutions, investment platforms and asset managers and early-stage FinTechs on financial services regulatory compliance matters. The team also assists with transactional matters, including M&A and fundraising rounds, contract drafting and outsourcings.
Strengths
"They provide strong collaborative teams with depth. They are very responsive and understanding of ad hoc engagements. It is a very commercially focused firm with robust understanding of the drivers of our business rather than strict or narrow legal perspective."
"Our experience working with the firm has been very positive and they have been very proactive in all the questions we asked them."
"They were always available, we never had to wait for anything. Their commercial awareness was very good, I was impressed by their perspective on many of the issues that came up during the process."
Work highlights
McCann FitzGerald advised the National Transport Authority on strategic matters concerning its development of a next generation public transport ticketing system.
Notable practitioners
Joshua Hogan leads McCann Fitzgerald's financial services regulatory group. His clients include banks and investment firms and payments businesses, and he also assists non-regulated enterprises with financial services matters. "Joshua Hogan is outstanding in terms of business understanding and payments expertise." "Josh has been really supportive at all times and his knowledge is impressive." "Josh is a pleasure to work with. He is thorough, timely and practical in his approach and stays within budget."
Doug McMahon is a partner at McCann FitzGerald and has particular expertise in IT, data protection and privacy. "We were extremely happy with the services provided by Doug McMahon."