{"id":519780,"date":"2026-06-26T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/519780\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:37:09","slug":"solicitor-one-of-two-new-members-at-cea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/519780\/","title":{"rendered":"Solicitor one of two new members at CEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dawnraidsearch-main.jpg\" alt=\"Solicitor one of two new members at CEA\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            (Pic: Shutterstock)<\/p>\n<p>Qualified solicitor Gr\u00e1inne Mannion is one of two new members of the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ministers at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment have also confirmed the appointment of Se\u00e1n Cotter as a member of the body, which enforces company law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The appointments, for five-year terms, follow a Public Appointments Service recruitment process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Request\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They follow a formal request from the CEA last year for the appointment of additional members to support its mandate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Ian Drennan, currently the sole member of the authority, has been appointed as chair in accordance with the Companies Act 2014, which requires the minister to appoint a chair where the CEA consists of more than one member.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His appointment will take effect when the new members join the CEA on 27 July.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Financial-services knowledge\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department describes Mannion as an experienced executive with expertise in risk, compliance, and internal audit, as well as deep regulatory knowledge in financial services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She has held senior leadership roles across large, international organisations \u2013 including BCMGlobal, AIB, and Danske Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cotter is a chartered accountant, a chartered banker, a qualified insolvency practitioner, and a member of several insolvency and financial-services professional bodies in Ireland and internationally. He has held senior roles in Ulster Bank and KPMG.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expansion of the authority will significantly enhance its capacity to respond to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/gazette\/top-stories\/2024\/august\/bill-to-give-cea-more-time-on-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"increasingly complex\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">increasingly complex<\/a> corporate wrongdoing,\u201d said Minister Peter Burke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the organisation continues to grow in scale and public profile, an expanded authority will support greater member-led involvement in driving delivery, quality, and impact across the full spectrum of our statutory functions and will help us achieve our long-term ambitions as an organisation,\u201d said Drennan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                <a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/gazette\/author-articles\/?author=Gazette Desk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                    Gazette Desk<br \/>\n                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gazette.ie is the daily legal news site of the Law Society of Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Pic: Shutterstock) Qualified solicitor Gr\u00e1inne Mannion is one of two new members of the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA).\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-519780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}