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Niall Esler

Niall is head of our Regulatory & Risk Advisory Practice Group in Walkers' Ireland office and specialises in Irish and EU financial services regulation.

Niall advises domestic and international credit institutions, investment firms, payment/e-money institutions, asset managers, funds and other institutions on all aspects of Irish and EU financial services regulation.

Niall’s experience includes advising on regulatory perimeter, licensing, prudential and conduct of business requirements. He also has significant commodities regulatory experience.

He is part of the team that advises global financial services groups on establishing regulated entities in Ireland to manage the impact of Brexit. He is also a member of our FinTech Group.

Niall advises on:


  • implementing regulatory change projects and remediation exercises
  • financial institution and utility company mergers and acquisitions
  • regulated asset (e.g. loan book) sale transactions
  • winding down regulated business.

He has also helped clients facing Central Bank of Ireland or European Central Bank regulatory authority inspections, themed reviews, risk mitigation programmes and administrative sanctions procedures.
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Very engaged and responsive, listens carefully to client requests and delivers well-considered, detailed legal advice. Strong industry and regulatory knowledge which is applied very effectively in advice.

IFLR 1000 (32nd Edition)

Experience and recent work

Before joining Walkers, Niall worked as an associate at Arthur Cox, Dublin. Including an apprenticeship he was based there for nine years and was a member of the Financial Regulatory and Energy Regulatory Groups.

Qualifications

Admitted in:

  • Ireland

Education:

  • LLB, Trinity College, Dublin
Niall is a member of the Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland (ACOI) and the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

Niall is a member of the multijurisdictional Walkers Global FinTech group.

2024 Legal 500 - Next Gen Partner, Fintech - "Niall Esler is excellent, technically proficient, and thinks in terms of the client's needs on a practical basis when advising them on legal matters."

2024 IFLR1000 - Financial Services Regulatory - "Niall has a strong ability to listen to us as a client before providing clever, bespoke, strategic solutions that enable us to address the concern we might have raised."

2022 IFLR 1000 - "Very engaged and responsive, listens carefully to client requests and delivers well-considered, detailed legal advice. Strong industry and regulatory knowledge which is applied very effectively in advice."

Rising Star in Euromoney's Expert Guides 2017

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+353 87 224 3486

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