Megan Hooper

Experience

Megan is a highly experienced investigations, white-collar crime and commercial litigation solicitor advising companies, financial institutions, directors and executives on complex disputes, protected disclosures, statutory investigations (including Commissions of Investigation and High Court Inspections), regulatory investigations and conducting internal investigations.

She has particular expertise dealing with regulators and enforcement agencies including the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau, European Commission, Central Bank of Ireland, Corporate Enforcement Authority, IAASA, Chartered Accountants Ireland and the Data Protection Commission. Her experience also includes responding to statutory requests, disclosure orders and managing complex issues involving data protection, privilege and confidentiality.
 
Megan has contributed to publications and prepared briefings on investigations, AML, bribery and corruption, privilege issues and discovery. She is recognised as a Leading Partner for White-Collar Crime (Legal 500, 2025), recommended for Business Crime Defence (Lexology/Who's Who Legal, 2025) and ranked as a Litigation Star for White-Collar Crime (Benchmark Litigation, 2025). She is also a member of the Women's White Collar Defense Association.

Key highlights include advising:

• Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (in special liquidation) on a range of criminal and regulatory investigations arising from legacy issues.
• Irish Nationwide Building Society on legacy issues, regulatory investigations and managing related large scale commercial court litigation against the former directors of INBS arising from legacy issues.
• Various health related clients over several years in the defence of litigation on behalf of Health Boards and latterly the HSE and Medical Defence Union.
• Variety of corporate and banking clients in relation to document management and privilege issues and managing large scale discovery processes in the context of both High Court and Commercial Court proceedings.