FSBA Annual Conference 2025 – Advocacy and Strategy in Financial Services Disputes

The Financial Services Bar Association are delighted to announce their Annual Conference 2025 –Advocacy and Strategy in Financial Services Disputes

Welcome Remarks:

John Breslin SC, Chair of the FSBA

Key Note Speaker

The Hon. John MacMenamin, former Judge of the Supreme Court, Chairperson of the Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal

Panel One: Advocacy in Regulatory Processes

Panel Chair:

John Breslin SC, Chair – FSBA

Panellists:

The Hon. Mr. Justice Seamus Woulfe of The Supreme Court

Ailbhe O’Neill SC

Mark Harty SC

Panel Two: Strategy: Directors and Senior Managers under Investigation, and in Pre-enforcement and Enforcement stages

Panel Chair:

Úna Tighe SC

Panellists:

Lisa Carty, Partner, Litigation, Regulatory and Tax, Pinsent Masons

Penny Miller, Partner and Head of Global Financial Services Regulatory Practice, Simmons + Simmons, London

Robert Cain, Partner, Financial Regulation, Arthur Cox

Panel Three: Amendment to Order 11 – Service outside of the Jurisdiction in Banking and cryptocurrency Disputes

Panel Chair:

Patrick O’Reilly SC

Panellists:

The Hon. Ms. Justice Nuala Butler of The Court of Appeal

Anthony Thuillier BL

Darragh K. Connell, Barrister, Maitland Chambers, London

Drinks reception in The Sheds afterwards

CPD Points: 3

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