Members

Conall O’Halloran
Conall is a partner in KPMG where he is partner in charge of Professional Standards and Risk Management. He chairs the CCAB-I Business Law Committee and is a member of the Quality Assurance Main Committee of the ICAI. Conall is a fellow of the Insitute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and is originally an Engineering graduate from UCC. He was previously a partner with Arthur Andersen.

Daryl Byrne
Daryl Byrne is Head of Corporate Listing and Policy at the Irish Stock Exchange. He recently participated on the Committee of European Securities Regulators in the development of the detailed requirements under the Prospectus Directive and Transparency Directive, and currently chairs the Prospectus task force of the Federation of European Stock Exchanges. Daryl is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and holds a Bachelor of Business Studies degree from Trinity College Dublin and NASD Series 7 qualification.

Ian Drennan
Ian is Chief Executive of the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA). He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and an Associate of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland. Prior to taking up his current position, he headed the Compliance Function at the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. He has previously held positions with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Department of Finance and a number of Dublin accountancy practices.

Jon Rock
Jon Rock, F.C.I.S. has been a Director and Company Secretary of ICC Information Limited since 1991. Prior to joining ICC he spent many years in the Company Secretarial Division of Deloitte & Touche. He is a Fellow and past-President of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) – Irish Region. He remains an active member of Irish Region Council of the ICSA. He also holds a Diploma in Legal Studies and is a former Chairman of the Irish Registrars’ Group.

Jonathan Buttimore
Jonathan Buttimore B.C.L, LL.M. (Eur. Law) B.L. represents the Office of the Attorney General. He has extensive practical and academic experience of both domestic and international company law, having written numerous legal articles as well as two textbooks and represented Ireland on the UNCITRAL Working Group on Insolvency. 

Lyndon MacCann S.C.
Representative of the Bar Council.

Marie Daly
Marie Daly qualified as a solicitor in 1987. She is Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs with IBEC and is also a member of the Pensions Board, IAASA (Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority), and the High Level Group on Business Regulation.

Mark Pery-Knox-Gore
Mark Pery-Knox-Gore is a partner in the Corporate and Commercial Department of Beauchamps. He is a member of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland and is the representative of the Law Society on CROLink. He was appointed to the CLRG as the Law Society's nominee in May 2007.

Michael Halpenny
SIPTU National Industrial Secretary, Michael is chair of the Unions Rules Revision Committee (Governance) and also a member of the ICTU Union Recognition sub-committee. A graduate of NUI, TCD and the Kings Inn he is an Associate-Lecturer in Employment Law and in Industrial Relations of the National College of Ireland.

Mike Percival
Mike Percival is the Wholesale Banking and Legal Executive at the Irish Banking Federation. Originally from New Zealand, where he developed a background in law and economics, he moved to IBF from the Commission for Energy Regulation.

Noel Rubotham
Noel Rubotham joined the High Court as a court officer in 1975, serving as Official Assignee in Bankruptcy from 1989 until 1999, and thereafter as Registrar of Wards of Court, before his appointment as Director of Reform and Development in the Courts Service in March, 2002. He is a graduate of the Law School, Trinity College Dublin, and was called to the Bar in 1985.

Nora Rice
is a solicitor, and is the Legal Adviser to the Companies Registration Office. She was a member of the Working Group on Company Law Compliance and Enforcement in 1998 and became a member of the CLRG in 2000. 

Paul Appleby
Paul Appleby is the Director of Corporate Enforcement and is responsible for encouraging compliance with and enforcing the requirements of the Companies Acts. Further information on his Office's role can be obtained from www.odce.ie.

Paul Egan
Paul Egan, Solicitor, admitted in Ireland and England & Wales. Chairman of the Corporate Department, Mason Hayes + Curran, Dublin. 2000-2005, nominee of the Law Society of Ireland. Appointed by Michael Ahern, Minister for Trade and Commerce, January 2007. 

Helen Dixon
Registrar of the Companies Office.  

Ralph MacDarby
Lawyer. Memberships: Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators; 1973 (Fellow 1997), Barrister-at-Law; 1976, Associate Institute of Taxation in Ireland; 1978, Associate Institute of Management Accountants; 1978, Fellow Irish Institute of Secretaries and Administrators; 1979, Fellow Institute of Directors; 1981, Notary Public; 1983, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; 1987, Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; 1994. Appointments: Managing Director of Secretarial Trust Company; 1973, Partner of Haughey Boland & Co.; 1980, President of IISA; 1982-1984, President of Institute of Directors; 1989-1991, National Company Secretarial and Legal Partner of Deloitte & Touche, 1991 to 2006 (Retired). He was appointed to the CLRG as nominee of the Institute of Directors. 

Tanya Holly
Tanya Holly, B.C.L., LL.M (European Law), solicitor is the legal adviser in company law to the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment. Prior to joining the Department in 2002, she spent 6 years in private practice in Dublin and London working in the company law and securities law area specialising in advising on company flotations, fundraisings, takeovers and advising listed companies and state companies on corporate governance matters generally.

Vincent Madigan
Principal Officer, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Worked in Company Law section since 1987. 

Jim Byrne
Revenue Commissioners

William Johnston
Partner and head of banking law in Arthur Cox, member of the 1994 Company Law Review Group, author of Banking and Security Law in Ireland (Butterworths 1998), Chairman of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland.

Deirdre-Ann Barr
Deirdre-Ann is a knowledge management partner in the Corporate and Commercial Department of Matheson Ormsby Prentice. She was appointed to the CLRG by the Minister for Enterprise Trade & Employment, Micheal Martin, in May 2008.

Mark Fielding
Mark Fielding is the CEO of the Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association, ISME, the Independent Business Organisation. ISME is an independent lobby group for the Irish SME sector, with in excess of 8,500 members nationwide. Further information on the Association can be seen on the website www.isme.ie.

Kathryn Maybury
Small Firms Association
 

Joseph Gavin
Financial Regulator.