Join us on Thursday 22nd April for a 1-hour webinar with Grainne Varian, Senior Associate, William Fry and Rose-Marie Kennedy, Director - Regulatory Risk, Deloitte. Both are members of the Prudential Regulation & Governance Working Group. More details on this webinar will follow.

Speakers:

Grainne Varian, Senior Associate, William Fry
Gráinne Varian is a Senior Associate in our Litigation & Dispute Resolution department and co-leads the William Fry Cork office.
As part of the Firm's Financial Regulation Unit, Gráinne specialises in commercial litigation and corporate disputes, with a particular emphasis on financial institutions litigation, financial regulatory disputes, mergers and acquisitions litigation, shareholder disputes and negligence claims. Gráinne has extensive experience in dealing with multi-party disputes before the Commercial List of the High Court.
Gráinne has worked both in practice and in-house – her industry experience means that her advice is focussed, commercial and pragmatic. Building on her years of experience in William Fry, Gráinne relocated to Cork in late 2019 to establish the Firm's Cork office.

Rose-Marie Kennedy, Director - Regulatory Risk, Deloitte
Rose-Marie specialises in Irish and European financial services regulation. She advises a wide range of both domestic and international financial institutions. She specialises in the provision of advice and support to clients on all aspects of Irish and UK authorisation/licence applications, applications for Pre-Approval Controlled Functions (“PCF”), ongoing conduct and prudential regulatory compliance support and implementation of legislation and regulatory requirements. Rose-Marie provides support and guidance to clients on regulatory enforcement actions taken by the Central Bank of Ireland, industry investigations and other risk mitigation programme (“RMP”) enquiries. Rose-Marie has vast expertise in assisting clients with overall coordination and management of large-scale regulatory remediation projects.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Rose-Marie worked for one of Ireland’s Top Banks where she held various positions across Internal Audit, Compliance and Regulatory Affairs functions, specialising in recent years in regulatory liaison and prudential regulatory change.
Rose-Marie is Chair of the Association of Compliance Officers (“ACOI”) Prudential Regulation & Governance Working Group, member of the ACOI EPDS Committee and has also served as the Chair of the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland Internal Governance Working Group. Rose-Marie is a Chartered Accountant (“ACA”) and holds a Bachelor degree in Commerce from UCD. She also holds a Diploma in Compliance from the Institute of Bankers and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting with Chartered Accountants of Ireland.