Most of Mr. McAleese’s restructuring cases involve looking at options for down-sizing, merging or integration. He has advised on the systemic restructuring of the national banking system in Tajikistan; developed a strategic plan for the non-core bank of an Irish pillar bank; advised on (i) the resolvability assessment process overseen by the Irish regulator and (ii) the HoldCo set-up plan for another Irish pillar bank; and advised the Central Bank of Cyprus on all facets of the banking sector bail-out and restructuring.  Mr. McAleese has also advised on the establishment of the Spanish Asset Management Company, SAREB as well as served as Interim Chief Restructuring Officer during the bank’s restructuring and recapitalisation as part of the systemic restructuring of the Irish banking sector.

Mr. McAleese is a subject matter expert having been involved in some of the most relevant bank restructuring cases in Europe. He was responsible for the development of restructuring guidelines for the EU member states bank for the Restructuring unit, providing best practice improvement recommendations. For the Pan-EU resolution authority, Mr. McAleese led a team that performed the valuation 2 of a large European bank which was potentially ‘likely to fail.’

Mr. McAleese has performed an AML, UBO and sanctions screening for the Pan Baltics bank across the three Baltic countries for the bank’s largest shareholder; advised the Baltic Banking Association on the development of strategy options for the banking and financial services sector; advised a Baltic pillar bank on the re-design and development of the bank’s entire business model; as well as advised on Irish pillar bank on the customer segmentation of the wholesale and corporate bank.

Prior to A&M, Mr. McAleese ran Barclays Bank Ireland PLC and, ABN AMRO Ireland as Country Head and KPMG.  He is currently an independent non-executive director at Irish State Bank, the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland.

He is Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland.