Investment Funds

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Provided by McCann FitzGerald LLP

We provide a full range of legal, company secretarial and regulatory services to Irish authorised funds and their managers. We also advise, administrators, depositaries and seed investors in those funds.

We have in-depth, specialist experience in areas including UCITS, structured products, ETFs, alternative investment funds (both retail and qualified), money market funds, managed account platforms, hedge funds, closed-ended funds, private equity funds and real estate funds (including REITs). 

Our group advises on the structuring and establishment of investment funds of all types and structures. We have acted as project managers and legal advisers for the establishment of complex and innovative structures and are regularly at the forefront of developments in the funds industry. 

We advise our clients on all regulatory requirements impacting on investment funds. This encompasses advice on fund management company governance issues, including, fitness and probity and related requirements. We advise on remuneration policies and practices, risk, valuations and conflicts policies and procedures, anti-money laundering requirements and cyber security requirements.  

We have extensive experience in advising on all aspects of supervisory engagement ranging from reporting requirements to themed inspections, regulatory investigations and administrative sanctions. We also provide fund registration and passporting services in the context of UCITS and alternative investment funds.