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Provided by William Fry LLP
The Asset Management & Investment Funds department at William Fry continues to be the firm of choice for significant and complex fund transactions in Ireland. Our leading position reflects our strength, in-depth industry expertise, market leading legal knowledge base, the experience of our team, as well as the calibre of our clients and the transactions on which we advise.
- We are one of the largest dedicated asset management and investment funds teams in Ireland.
- We represents 650 Irish domiciled funds, and we are the sole legal advisors to 6 of the 10 largest fund structures by AUM domiciled in the jurisdiction.
- We advise 3 of the top 6 promoters of Irish domiciled funds by AUM (including the largest), as well as a number of the most significant global fund service providers.
- We are consistently at the forefront of legal/regulatory innovation, having advised on:
- the creation of a single settlement model permitting settlement of ETFs within the ICSD system for the first time and the conversion of the first ETFs to use this new settlement model
- the establishment of the first proprietary Authorised Participant dealing platform for all primary market trading owned and operated by the ETF provider, outside of the Administrator’s network
- the establishment of the first Irish-domiciled money market fund
- the first conversion of a fund from Plc to ICAV status
- the first property ICAV, life settlement fund, loan origination fund and various share class structures to the Irish market
Ranked Lawyers at
William Fry LLP
Ireland
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Members
Provided by William Fry LLP
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Head of Department
James Phelan
John Aherne
Sergey Dolomanov
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Head of Department
Clients
Provided by William Fry LLP
Architas
Atlantic Bridge LP
BNY Mellon
BlackRock
ETF Securities
Legal & General INvestment Management
Mercer
NTMA
Quadrant
SQN
iShares
Industries
Provided by William Fry LLP
Asset Management
Financial Services
Investment Funds