Eoin Caulfield

Partner

Eoin Caufield is a Partner and Head of our Insurance Department. Eoin joined the Firm in 1995. His practice involves a combination of insurance and reinsurance work, both on the non-life and life side, together with a general corporate and financial services client base.

Eoin is a member of the Insurance Institute of Ireland and the British Insurance Law Association. He is a former committee member of the International Bar Association Insurance Committee. Recent speaking involvements include Financial Services Ireland; Insurance Ireland and the European Insurance Forum. In addition to his legal qualifications he holds an MBS (Financial Services) and an affiliation to the Society of Actuaries in Ireland.

Recent significant transactions include advising:

Catalina on the sale of Catalina Insurance Ireland to Riverstone International
Phoenix Group on the acquisition of Standard Life Aberdeen’s Irish insurance business
Athora on its acquisition of Aegon Ireland
Banco Santander on its sale to CNP Assurance of a majority interest in its Irish cross-border insurance subsidiaries
Allied World, AXA, Markel, Catalina, SCOR, AXIS, Swiss Re and various others on Court sanctioned mergers, portfolio transfers and other cross-border schemes
Fidelity Worldwide Investment (FIL), Santander Insurance and Chaucer on the authorisation of Irish insurers and various international groups on cross-border intermediary authorisations
Clients on matters including Solvency II outsourcing, enforcement actions, own funds/capital, Brexit contingency planning and structured transactions (pension de-risking, collateral and portfolio transfers)

2026 Legal 500 EMEA

"Eoin Caulfield stands out as a very competent insurance law practitioner. Eoin has a way of finding pragmatic solutions to complicated issues."

2026 Chambers Europe

"We really enjoy working with Eoin, and really value his contributions. He is a trusted adviser." "Eoin Caulfield is technically strong, great to work with and focused on client service."

2025 Legal 500 EMEA

" Eoin is one of the biggest names in the market in this area and extremely knowledgeable and good to deal with." "The two stars of the team are Eoin Caufield and Niall Campbell - both very responsive and knowledgeable, very user-friendly."

2025 Chambers Europe

"Eoin Caulfield is great: very dependable, always accessible and practical in his advice." "Eoin is very knowledgeable and easy to work with." "He is very down-to-earth, keeps things nice and simple and can translate very technical things into simple language." "Eoin is a really top-tier partner who provides very seasoned, very calm and practical advice." "Eoin is a pragmatic, experienced and personable lawyer who really knows his stuff."

2025 IFLR 1000

Eoin is ranked as Highly Regarded in IFLR 1000 for Financial Services Regulatory.