Investment Funds
Global Guide 2024 : Ireland
Band 1
Email address
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+353 1 649 2000About
Provided by A&L Goodbody
Our Asset Management & Investment Funds team is a top ranked, experienced, and dynamic group of specialists, offering comprehensive legal, regulatory and taxation services to clients in Ireland and internationally. Clients include global asset managers, investment banks, fund administration groups, depositaries, prime brokers, investors in funds such as pension funds and insurance companies and other financial services organisations.
Our market leading Asset Management & Investment Funds team comprises six partners, and over thirty-five lawyers and other professionals including two dedicated professional support lawyers, and corporate secretarial, listing and foreign registration specialists. We are supported by, and work seamlessly alongside, other specialist teams within A&L Goodbody including the tax, finance, financial regulation, real estate, corporate, data protection and regulatory risk and investigation groups.
We advise the full range of Irish fund products including UCITS, AIFs, REITs, exchange traded funds and money market funds. We advise on funds investing both passively and actively and in liquid and illiquid strategies in all asset classes.
Recognising the speed and volume of regulatory change in this area, our team issues a monthly Frontpage: Asset Management & Investment Funds Bulletin which provides a unique update of legal and regulatory developments in Irish and EU law which impacts the Investment Funds industry.
Chambers Review
A&L Goodbody assists international financial institutions with the establishment and authorisation of UCITS and non-UCITS funds, including QIAIFs and ETFs. The law firm earns praise for property funds expertise. The legal practice has secured regulatory approval for the establishment of novel products, including cannabis ETFs. A&L Goodbody assists with the approval process to allow fund managers to become authorised UCITS management companies or AIFMs. The law firm benefits from a key team based in London that advises UK-based asset managers on Irish funds matters.
Work Highlights
- A&L Goodbody acted for Exponent Private Equity on the establishment and authorisation of an AIFM.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The standard of advice from A&L Goodbody is of a very high quality and delivered quickly. Complicated topics are covered in an understandable and commercial way."
"The team is always very responsive with a very good service level."
"A&L Goodbody is very pragmatic and practical in its advice."
"The lawyers are prompt, thorough and careful in what they do."
"The law firm's service levels and responsiveness are first class. The team has a good range of knowledge regarding market practices."
"The standard of advice from A&L Goodbody is of a very high quality and delivered quickly. Complicated topics are covered in an understandable and commercial way."
"The team is always very responsive with a very good service level."
"A&L Goodbody is very pragmatic and practical in its advice."
"The lawyers are prompt, thorough and careful in what they do."
"The law firm's service levels and responsiveness are first class. The team has a good range of knowledge regarding market practices."
Notable Practitioners
Michael Barr is a well-regarded market presence who advises on a range of fund mandates including property funds.
Advancing in the rankings, Kerill O'Shaughnessy regularly advises clients on the establishment and operation of funds, including UCITS funds. He has strong experience acting on low-carbon investments and SFDR compliance.
"Kerill O'Shaughnessy is very strong technically and has a very good understanding of his client's processes and priorities."
"He is a proactive lawyer with a lot of energy. He always provides good advice, is always on top of his game, is never late and is very reliable."
"He has a high level of focus on client service and getting the right result. He understands the market we operate in."
"He's pragmatic and knows the guidelines in Ireland and how they're implemented."
"Kerill has strong expertise in the asset management sector."