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Corporate Security: Creation, Registration and Enforcement

The Bloomsbury Professional Company Law Conference 2026

Wednesday 15th April 2026

In-person event

Bloomsbury Professional Ireland are delighted to announce our 2026 company law seminar: Corporate Security: Creation, Registration and Enforcement. This half-day event features the leading names in company law in Ireland. With Dr Thomas B. Courtney acting as Chair, the seminar will focus on new developments in the area, in particular changes to the law relating to corporate borrowing, and corporate security.


Speakers for this seminar include William Johnston, Hugh McDowell BL, Kelley Smith SC and Elizabeth White. The sessions for this event cover topics such as the creation of charges by Irish companies, recent developments in the registration of charges, the new Summary Approval Procedure and the appointment of receivers.

Delegates to the seminar will earn 4 CPD points

Date: Wednesday, 15th April, 2026

Time: 8:30 am—12:30 pm

Venue: Chartered Accountants Ireland, Pearse St, Dublin 2

Price: €450 

Price includes comprehensive information pack.

How to book:

Please email [email protected] to book your place.

Conference Topics include:

  1. Security Over Assets – Ensuring it Works Effectively – William Johnston
  2. Validating Financial Assistance and Security with the SAP: Law and Good Practice – Elizabeth White
  3. Registration of Charges: Recent Developments and Best Practice – Hugh McDowell
  4. The Appointment of Receivers to Companies and the Exercise of their Powers – Kelley Smith

Full programme available here.

Speakers:

Chair

Dr Thomas B. Courtney

Dr Thomas B Courtney, solicitor (non-practising) and author of The Law of Companies (4th ed, Bloomsbury Professional, 2016), is the Managing Director and Founder of Courtney Governance. He is a writer, speaker and thought leader in Irish company law and corporate governance. Having acted as Chairperson of the Company Law Review Group from its establishment in 2000 to 2018, Tom is recognised as being the architect of the pioneering Companies Act 2014 which made the private LTD front and centre of Irish company law.

Speaker

William Johnston

William Johnston is a former chair of the Banking Law division of the International Bar Association, was a partner in Arthur Cox LLP for 30 years, and is currently Examiner in Banking Law in the Law Society. He is the editor of Oxford University Press's Security over Receivables and three editions of Set-off Law and Practice, and the author of Banking and Security Law in Ireland published by Bloomsbury Professional.

Speaker

Hugh McDowell BL

Hugh McDowell is a practising barrister, and was called to the Bar of Ireland in 2015. He has a varied civil practice, with a focus on company law disputes, media and defamation law, and professional regulatory matters. He holds an undergraduate degree in economics from University College Dublin, a master’s degree in finance from Imperial College London, and a Diploma in Legal Studies and a Barrister-at-Law degree from the Honourable Society of the King’s Inns.

Speaker

Kelley Smith SC

Kelley Smith is a Senior Counsel practising in Dublin. Kelley specialises in commercial litigation. Kelley has also been called to the Bar of England and Wales and is the chairperson of the Corporate and Insolvency Bar Association.

Speaker

Elizabeth White

Elizabeth White is a Practice Development Consultant in A&L Goodbody’s Finance Department. As well as leading the Finance Knowledge and Practice Development team within the Department, she has extensive transactional experience, having previously worked as a Senior Associate in the Department’s structured finance practice group, specialising in debt capital markets, structured products and general financing transactions. Elizabeth has advised extensively on lending and security arrangements. She holds an undergraduate degree in Law and French Law from Trinity College Dublin, and a Diploma in Family Law from the Law Society of Ireland.

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