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O'Connor, Orla

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O'Connor, Orla


Firm: Arthur Cox LLP
Position: Partner, Chair of the Firm
Address: Ten Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, 2 D02 T380.
Phone: +353 1 920 1181
Fax: +353 1 920 1020
Email: orla.oconnor@arthurcox.com
Personal URL: http://www.arthurcox.com/people/orla-oconnor/

Special Areas:

Orla is a partner in the firm’s Finance Group and Chair of the Firm. She has worked on numerous financing and restructuring transactions both for banks and borrowers.

Orla is also a member of the firm’s Financial Regulation practice and advises on bank reorganisations and on a wide range of regulatory issues relating to payments, electronic money, anti-money laundering, mortgage arrears and consumer credit. She has also advised a range of banks, private equity firms and servicers expanding and restructuring their operations on regulatory, licensing and other legal issues and on their interactions with the Central Bank. She has advised on a wide range of bank asset disposals by both Irish and international banks operating in Ireland as part of their deleveraging strategies.

Projects:

- Advising two institutions on the Central Bank's Tracker Mortgage Examination
- Advised Apollo on a range of bids and acquisitions in the Irish market and on relating regulatory, funding and restructuring issues
- Advised Oaktree on the funding of the acquisition of The Square Shopping Centre, Tallaght
- Advised Nomura, Bawag and other institutions on the funding of portfolio acquisitions in Ireland
- Advised Bain on the purchase of the Project Coney and Project Finn portfolios from RBS and on related funding and restructuring issues
- Advised Lloyds Banking Group on the 2010 cross-border merger of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited into Bank of Scotland plc including all dealings with the Central Bank on the merger
- Advising Lloyds Banking Group on Irish loan portfolio disposals including Projects Porto (2018), Parasol (2014), Phoenix (2013), Harrogate (2012), Lane (2012), Pittsburgh (2012), Prince (2012) and Perth (2011)
- Advised HSBC, Barclays, BNP, Bank of Ireland, AIB and Ulster Bank on their bilateral facilities to Lidl Ireland and Lidl Northern Ireland (2000 - 2018)
- Advised KPMG as Special Liquidator of IBRC on the sale of two loan books - Project Stone (CRE) and Projects Sand and Pearl (Residential)
- Advising a wide range of banks, private equity firms and servicers on financial regulatory issues including anti-money laundering and financial sanctions compliance, consumer credit issues, review of policies and procedures, customer documentation and customer correspondence to ensure compliance with consumer legislation and the Consumer Protection Code, Mortgage Arrears Code and the SME Regulations

Publications:

SEAR/Individual Accountability: Proposed Privilege "Safe Harbour", September 2021; SEAR/Individual Accountability: Proposed Changes to the Central Bank's Administrative Sanctions Procedure, August 2021; SEAR/Individual Accountability: Minister for Finance publishes General Scheme of Bill, July 2021; NPL Update: Central Bank wants "meaningful progress" on long-term PDH mortgage arrears, July 2021; SEAR: Draft legislation expected shortly, July 2021.

Qualifications:

Admitted as a solicitor, 1995
BCL, 1991, Oxford University
LLB, 1990, Trinity College, Dublin

Memberships:

Institute of Taxation in Ireland
Chair - Consumer Protection Working Group - Association of Compliance Officers of Ireland

 


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