Gráinne Callanan

Gráinne Callanan, is head of the Matheson Cork office and is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group and specialises in corporate and regulatory insurance. 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, product development, distribution arrangements and health insurance. She has advised on a wide range of innovative transactions in the insurance market and has taken a leading role advising clients on a number of significant acquisitions of closed books of life insurance businesses.

Gráinne is ranked in Band 2 by Chambers and as a leading individual by Legal 500 for Corporate Insurance.
Gráinne is Co-Chair of the IBA Insurance Committee.
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