Legal Service
Financial Services
Our Financial Services team provides sound technical and business orientated advice and support to clients seeking to negotiate the increasingly diverse and dynamic world of financial services law and regulation.
Our Financial Services team provides sound technical and business orientated advice and support to clients seeking to negotiate the increasingly diverse and dynamic world of financial services law and regulation.
Our Financial Services team advises and assists a wide range of leading securities and derivatives trading houses, asset managers, administrators, depositaries, investment funds, e-money and payment institutions, insurance companies and other financial services firms.
The Financial Services team primarily advises in the following practice areas:
Asset Management and Investment Funds
We represent investment funds and their managers in guiding them through the structuring and establishment of investment funds across every conceivable strategy in Ireland. We also focus on setting up the managing entity and advising on its successful operation over the long term.
We advise in all aspects of regulation as it applies to the financial services industry in Ireland.
In particular, our team has extensive experience advising on issues such as licensing applications, capital requirements, anti-money laundering rules, acquisitions/disposals of businesses, distribution and marketing related issues, compliance and corporate governance requirements and other financial services regulatory requirements in Ireland.
Our multi-disciplinary Regulatory Investigations Unit provides advice to clients in relation to administrative sanctions procedures initiated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
The team acts for issuers, originators, lead managers, arrangers and trustees on debt capital market issuances globally.
Insurance
We support clients across the full range of their legal needs in insurance-related matters in Ireland.
‘This is one of the strongest fund and regulatory teams in Ireland. They have a broad experience across asset classes and have a clear idea of the expectations and requirements of the CBI.' Recommended for Investment Funds.
Recommended for Investment Funds.
‘Excellent client focus, extensive expertise and knowledge.’ Recommended for Capital Markets and Investment Funds.
Recommended for Investment Funds.
"Very commercial and responsive." Recommended for Investment Funds.
Recommended for Capital Markets and Investment Funds.
Recommended for Investment Funds.
"The team is responsive and is able to adapt to our needs." Recommended for Investment Funds.
'A very responsive and quality-driven group.' Recommended for Capital Markets.
'Commercial awareness and the ability to convey the legal requirements in plain language. Affordable and practical solutions to issues. Approachable and available to help.' Recommended for Investment Funds.
Recommended for Investment Funds/Financial Services. Clients highlight the lawyers' ability to provide an "in-depth look at the legal structures and bring in different people as needs be," noting: "Their main strength is their thoroughness."
Recommended for Investment Funds/Financial Services.
Recommended for Investment Funds/Financial Services.
Recommended for Investment Funds/Financial Services.
“They have a very commercial approach, the team is easy to deal with, the price is good and we didn’t have any issues”.
Recommended for Investment Funds/Financial Services.
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