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Maher, Darren
Special Areas:Darren Maher is a partner and Co-Head of the Firm's Corporate Department and Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Matheson. He has advised a wide range of leading domestic and international financial institutions on all aspects of financial services law and regulation including establishment and authorisation, development and distribution of products, compliance, corporate governance and re-organisations including cross-border mergers, schemes of arrangement, portfolio transfers and mergers and acquisitions.Darren is a member of the firm’s Brexit Advisory Group and is advising a significant number of the world’s leading financial services firms on their plans to establish a regulated subsidiary in Ireland in order to maintain access to the EU single market following the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU. Career:Darren’s recent experience includes advising:The Minister for Finance on the €1.3 billion sale of Irish Life Assurance plc to Great-West Lifeco. Allied Irish Banks plc on the sale of Ark Life Assurance plc to Guardian Financial Services. BNY Mellon on a cross-border merger of the Bank of New York Mellon (Ireland) Limited with the Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV, a Belgian registered bank, as part of an internal reorganisation within the BNY Mellon group. Aviva Group on the restructure of the non-life insurance business of Aviva Ireland. This is one of the largest restructurings of an Irish insurance business carried out in recent years and involved in excess of 1 million policyholders of the Aviva Group. QBE Group on the merger of its Irish, UK and Belgian reinsurance companies by way of a cross-border merger. Swiss Life Assurance et Patrimoine S.A., a French authorised insurer, on its acquisition of a portfolio of life insurance policies issued to French resident policyholders from UBS International Life Limited. Handelsbanken Life & Pension on the transfer of its life insurance business to Handelsbanken Liv in Sweden. Allied Irish Banks plc on its life insurance distribution agreement with Irish Life Assurance plc. Publications:Darren frequently publishes articles in financial services publications and is co-author of the Irish chapter of PLC's Cross-border Insurance and Reinsurance Handbook, Law Business Research’s Insurance and Reinsurance Law Review, and co-contributor to ICLG’s Guide to Insurance and Reinsurance.Darren lectures at the Law Society of Ireland and the Insurance Institute of Ireland. Qualifications:University College Dublin and DePaul College of Law, US (BCL International)
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