Stephen Carty
Europe Guide 2024
Band 4 : Investment Funds
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Provided by Stephen Carty
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Stephen is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team and leads the Financial Services Regulatory team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. His practice primarily involves representing investment firms and financial institutions in connection with Irish regulatory matters. Specialist areas include the regulation of investment services in Ireland under the MiFID regime and the UCITS / AIFMD regimes for management companies. Stephen is a key member of the team at Maples focussed on sustainable finance and assists a wide range of financial institutions on the introduction of SFDR, the Taxonomy Regulation and associated EU sustainable finance measures. His regulatory expertise captures matters of EU law including IFD / IFR, EMIR, SRD II, SFTR and the Securitisation Regulation. From an Irish perspective, Stephen assists clients with various regulatory matters such as new entity authorisations and advisory work in areas including fitness and probity (and SEAR), client asset rules, AML / CFT and Central Bank of Ireland engagement across the supervisory spectrum. Stephen has extensive experience advising clients on the establishment and operation of Irish regulated investment funds with a particular focus on UCITS regulation as well as significant experience in AIFs authorised under the Irish AIFMD regime.