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Gráinne Callanan

Gráinne Callanan leads Matheson’s Cork office and is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group. Gráinne advises a wide range of leading domestic and international financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland including life and non-life (re)insurance companies, captive insurers and intermediaries on corporate transactions, regulatory and compliance and corporate governance. Gráinne has extensive expertise in the areas of new authorisations, portfolio transfers, cross-border mergers, corporate restructurings, distribution arrangements and health insurance. She has advised on a wide range of innovative transactions in the insurance market in recent times and has taken a leading role advising clients on a number of significant acquisitions of closed books of life insurance businesses. Gráinne lectures at the Law Society of Ireland and the Insurance Institute of Ireland. Gráinne is also a member of the Cork Financial Services Forum. · Matheson LLP

IrelandInsurance, Reinsurance

About

Gráinne Callanan leads Matheson’s Cork office and is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group, advising domestic and international financial institutions operating in and from Ireland. She has extensive experience advising (re)insurance companies, captive insurers and intermediaries on corporate transactions, regulatory and compliance matters, corporate governance, new authorisations, portfolio transfers, cross-border mergers, corporate restructurings, distribution arrangements and health insurance, and lectures at the Law Society of Ireland and the Insurance Institute of Ireland.

Practice areas

InsuranceReinsuranceFinancial ServicesCorporate / M&ARegulatory & ComplianceCorporate GovernanceHealth InsuranceCross-Border Transactions

Office

Expertise

Life InsuranceNon-Life (Re)insuranceCaptive InsurersIntermediariesNew AuthorisationsPortfolio TransfersCross-Border MergersCorporate RestructuringsDistribution ArrangementsAcquisitions of Closed Books of Life Insurance Businesses