David Lawless

Practice Areas

David Lawless is Head of the Taxation team. He specialises in Financial Services and Structured Finance and has wide experience on advising on all types of investment fund structures, securitisation, derivatives, banking, insurance and aircraft leasing. He also has wide experience on advising on holding company structures and investment structures for investing in Irish real estate.

David has over 35 years experience in advising on the tax implications of financial services structures and transactions. He started his tax career in PwC in 1987 and became a financial services tax partner there in 1996 (where he was head of PwC Ireland's Investment Management Tax Practice and it's Securitisation practice). He established the Dillon Eustace tax practice in 2004.