Good evening,
I hope 2025 is a very happy and healthy year for you and your families.
Fireside chat with Eleanor Daly at our General Counsel Summit
I’m delighted to announce that Eleanor Daly from Meta will be our guest speaker at our General Counsel Summit in Dublin on Tuesday 28 January 2025. Eleanor has very kindly agreed to join us for our fireside chat to discuss her career journey and lessons she has learned along the way.
Eleanor Daly, Director & Associate General Counsel – Global Corporate, Meta
Eleanor is a Director & Associate General Counsel with Meta, where she leads Meta’s International Corporate Governance Team. Eleanor has many years’ experience in the areas of corporate governance, company law, risk and compliance. Within Meta, she acts as a trusted advisor to global entity board members, executive management and cross functional partners in all aspects of company law and corporate governance.
Eleanor is currently the Chair of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland and is the External Examiner to the Law Society of Ireland’s Certificate in Company Secretarial Law and Practice. From 2014 to 2018 Eleanor was a member of the Irish Company Law Review Group (the CLRG), a statutory advisory expert body charged with advising the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation on the review and development of company law in Ireland. Eleanor is a co-author of the Irish Company Secretary’s Handbook (Bloomsbury,1st ed, 2011). In addition to being a Solicitor and Chartered Tax Advisor, Eleanor is also a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute in London. In 2022, Eleanor was the Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce of Ireland’s General Counsel Forum.
Sponsor: Pinsent Masons
Pinsent Masons have kindly agreed to sponsor and host our GC Summit. In particular, I would like to thank Gerry Beausang, Corporate Partner at Pinsent Masons for supporting our Summit.
General Counsel Summit, Dublin
In addition to Eleanor, we will be joined by a number of other inspirational guest speakers including:
Maureen Daly, General Counsel of the Irish Life Group
Maureen Daly is General Counsel with the Irish Life Group. Maureen graduated from the University of Limerick with a degree in Law and European Studies in 2002 and qualified as a solicitor with the Law Society of Ireland in 2005. Maureen’s legal career began in 2003 with the Irish corporate firm, William Fry. Maureen joined Irish Life in 2015 where her original focus was on providing the legal support for the Irish group’s mergers and acquisitions activities. Maureen was appointed General Counsel in 2020.
Niamh Hodnett – Online Safety Commissioner
Niamh is the Online Safety Commissioner at Coimisiún na Meán. She oversees the organisation’s Policy & Research Division, including responsibility for the development of the Online Safety Code. Niamh has extensive experience in designing, enforcing and managing compliance with regulatory obligations at both an Irish and EU level. Her expertise spans online safety, data protection, cybersecurity, competition, consumer protection and communications regulation. Niamh has brought criminal prosecutions for regulatory breaches, as well as civil enforcement compliance proceedings. She has in-depth litigation experience of appeals and judicial reviews. A qualified solicitor, Niamh has previously worked at ComReg, Ireland’s communications regulator, at law firms in both Ireland and Brussels, and in a variety of in-house legal and regulatory roles. She has co-authored books on European law and Irish regulatory law.
Emma Redmond Emma, Associate General Counsel, Head of EU Data Protection, OpenAI
Emma Redmond is Associate General Counsel, Head of Privacy and Data Protection at OpenAI. She was formerly Global Head of Privacy and Chief Privacy Officer at Stripe, with previous roles as the Head of International Data Protection at both Ancestry and LinkedIn. Emma is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at University College Dublin and was honored with a selection for the Leadership in Law programme at Harvard Law School in May 2017. She is a member of the Government of Ireland’s AI Advisory Council and featured in the 100 Top Tech People in Ireland.
Event Details
Forum: The Lawyers’ BD Club (est’d in 2011 in London)
Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Time: 12 noon to 3.00 PM
Venue: Pinsent Masons, 1 Windmill Lane, Dublin 2
RSVP
It promises to be an excellent event.
If you would like to receive an invitation, please feel free to email me and I’d be delighted to hear from you.
RSVP: colin.carroll@empowermentinternational.com
Many thanks,
Colin Carroll
The Lawyers’ Business Development CLUB 