Investment Funds

About

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