Paul Kearney
Chief Counsel and Enforcement Commissioner @EBRD
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Counsel and Enforcement Commissioner @EBRD
London, GB
November 2015 to date: Chief Counsel and Enforcement Commissioner. As Chief Counsel, reporting to the General Counsel, currently responsible for assisting the General Counsel on a variety of special projects. Between 2015 and 2021, also responsible for knowledge management. As Enforcement Commissioner, currently the EBRD\'s independent first-tier adjudicator under its Enforcement Policies and Procedures.20••••15: Chief Counsel, reporting to a Deputy General Counsel. Over time and in various combinations, responsible for one, two or three teams dealing with restructuring and litigation, HR, commercial contracting, donors, members, privileges and immunities, as well as carbon finance. 20••••06: Senior Counsel and Team Leader, reporting to an Assistant General Counsel. Responsible for teams dealing with banking and with restructuring and contested matters.20••••02: Senior Counsel. Responsible for restructuring and for contested matters.19••••01: Counsel. Responsible for banking matters and for restructuring and contested matters.
EDUCATION
Trinity College, Dublin
M.A.
Blackrock College, Dublin
Secondary Education
Law Society, England and Wales
Solicitor (England and Wales), since 1991
Trinity College, Dublin
B.A., Moderator Legal Science
Incorporated Law Society of Ireland
Solicitor (Ireland)
SKILLS
ABOUT PAUL KEARNEY
A highly experienced lawyer and manager, with a strong and very broad track-record of delivering balanced advice, innovative solutions and in driving change. Proven effectiveness, working at all levels and leading diverse teams, to ensure sound and focused outcomes across a number of business areas. Expert in common, civil, public international and international administrative law. Collaborative by nature and used to dealing with difficult situations. Dual-qualified, as an Irish and English solicitor. Specific experience includes-* acting as independent first-tier adjudicator - Enforcement Commissioner - under EBRD\'s Enforcement Policies and Procedures, which govern the sanctioning of prohibited practices - fraud, corruption, etc- by direct and indirect recipients of EBRD financing and cross-debarment by EBRD;* developing and implementing a new approach to knowledge management for EBRD\'s legal department;* assisting the General Counsel with a variety of special projects;* private and sovereign cross-border banking transactions, including loan and equity investments and exits, carbon finance, restructurings, recovery and insolvency, in a variety of jurisdictions;* civil and criminal cases - in litigation to highest levels and in arbitration, in a variety of jurisdictions and covering pre-contested, contested, settlement and mediation phases;* institutional affairs - member issues, privileges and immunities, HR (policy development/cases/misconduct), donor funding and commercial contracting;* exposure across a wide variety of jurisdictions and under various legal systems - common law and civil law, public and private international law, international administrative law - as well as the interplay between these various jurisdictions and systems of law;* forming, managing, leading and working with a variety of legal and cross-disciplinary teams, in-house and with external counsel and counter-parties;* chairing, membership of and advising various standing and ad-hoc governance and advisory committees and working groups;* speaker at a variety of conferences and to professional groups.
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