Paul Egan SC is a senior consultant with and former Chairman of the Corporate Law division of Mason, Hayes and Curran and practises primarily in public company transactions and corporate governance. He is Chairman of the Company Law Review Group (CLRG), the statutory body responsible for advising the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on matters of company law. He is a former member of the Irish Takeover Panel, as nominee of the Law Society (2012 to 2018) and of the Irish Stock Exchange’s Listing and Rules Committees (20015-2015). Paul is author of several books on company law and securities law, including Irish and EU Market Abuse Texts (MHC 2017), European Union Securities Legislation (MHC, 5 editions 2004-2014), Irish Corporate Procedures (Jordans, 3 editions 1993-2007), contributor on securities law to Bloomsbury's Companies Acts 1963 to 2012 (Bloomsbury, 2012), Ethics in the Public and Private Sector: the Legislation (MHC 2012).