Eimear O'Brien

Hogan Lovells

Eimear O'Brien is an associate in the Commercial and Retail Banking Team within Hogan Lovells’ Financial Institutions Group. Eimear specialises in retail financial services law, including retail banking, consumer credit, mortgages, payment services and e-commerce and advises on all related legal and regulatory matters. She also advises on non-sector specific legislation such as unfair terms. Clients include commercial and retail banks, card issuers, mortgage lenders, and retailers offering financial products to their customers.

Eimear has undertaken secondments with the Irish offices of two major international banks and is a member of the Financial Services Lawyers Association.

Ash Saluja

CMS Cameron McKenna

Ash Saluja is a Partner in the Financial Services & Products team at CMS London.  He has over twenty years’ experience in advising on financial services regulatory and commercial matters. His clients include banks and broker-dealers, funds and investment managers, platforms and exchanges, insurers and insurance intermediaries and other financial institutions, as well as the large corporate customers and suppliers of these types of institutions.  He regularly advises on authorisation, compliance and regulatory change, capital and governance, client money and assets, product design and distribution, cross border business, insider dealing and market abuse, anti-money laundering, as well as the regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and outsourcings.

Laura Scaife

Addleshaw Goddard

Laura Scaife is author of the Handbook of Social Media and the Law (described as “the seminal text in the area"), Laura is a key member of Addleshaw Goddard’s Data & Information practice, and advises an enviable range of FTSE 100 clients who consistently praise her pragmatic advice on some of the UK's most significant and innovative data projects. In addition to her private practice, she is a PhD candidate.

Regularly sought out to speak at industry seminars (notably the British Association of Shopping Centres Annual Conference), she has also appeared on the BBC, demonstrating her gravitas and popular appeal. Laura has been featured in the Lawyer Magazine as a "star legal writer", and named as "the one to watch" in the Cambridge Judge Business School and LexisNexis - Achievements of Women in Law 2015 awards.

Laura is a contributing author to Modern Financial Regulation, published by Jordan’s (2013), and The Laws of the Internet (2015) published by Gringas and Todd.”