Peter McNally

Peter McNally is a Principal Consultant and Director of Business Development at Spark Legal and Policy Consulting, where he has been working since 2013.

Peter has participated in and managed various studies for DG ENER, DG JUST, DG COMP, DG GROW, DG CONNECT, DG EMPL and DG EAC, often acting as senior legal expert or a quality assurance role. He has previously acted in a quality assurance role for a number of studies such as a Study to support an implementation report on the basis of Article 18(4) of Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of 5 July 2017 on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial, and a Compliance assessment of measures adopted by the Member States to adapt their systems to Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (‘the EPPO’). He is currently working on a Study to support an evaluation of the Anti-tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD) Council Directive (EU) 2016/1164 of 12 July 2016 as amended by Council Directive (EU) 2017/952 of 29 May 2017 for DG TAXUD.

Peter received a BCL from University College Cork in 2007, and an LL.M from Dublin University (Trinity College) in 2008. He was a Blue Book Stagiaire with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market and Services in 2010, and thereafter trained with a top tier Irish law firm, and is qualified to practice law in Ireland, England and Wales. In 2014, he completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Economics for Competition Law at King’s College London.

Peter is a native English speaker and also speaks French.