Stephen advises on financial services regulation, supporting clients with licensing, compliance, governance and evolving regulatory obligations.

As a senior associate in our Irish Regulatory team, he advises businesses on compliance, investigations and enforcement matters.

His background spans private practice, the Central Bank of Ireland and an in-house secondment with a global digital asset business, giving him experience of regulatory matters from both an adviser and industry perspective.

Stephen helps clients in relation to:

financial services regulation, including consumer credit, e-money, crypto-assets and AML/CFT
licensing and authorisation, including cross-border MiCA licensing
regulatory investigations, inspections, enforcement and remediation, including engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland
governance, safeguarding and regulatory change, including the Individual Accountability Framework and DORA
fitness and Probity applications and regulatory training for boards and senior management
outsourcing, vendor, intra-group and technology services agreements for regulated firms

Experience and recent work

Prior to joining Walkers, Stephen was a Senior Associate at an Irish law firm, specialising in financial regulation, and completed a secondment as legal counsel with a global digital asset business. He previously worked within the Prudential Enforcement Investigations Team at the Central Bank of Ireland, as a regulatory investigations lawyer at an international law firm, and as a barrister.