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Mr Brian McDermott

+353 1 649 2307 bmcdermott@algoodbody.com View profile

Work Department

Asset Management & Investment Funds

Position

Brian McDermott is Head of the A&L Goodbody Asset Management & Investment Funds Group. He has extensive experience in the structuring, establishment and authorisation of all types of investment funds including UCITS, AIFs and non-regulated funds.  In addition to advising the promoters and investment managers of such funds, he advises fund investors, fund directors and fund service providers on relevant Irish law, regulation and market practice. Brian also advises on all aspects of the regulation of asset management and fund servicing activities in Ireland including the establishment and authorisation of investment managers, fund servicing operations and UCITS and AIF management companies.

Memberships

Brian has served as a member of the Council of Irish Funds, the Irish fund industry’s representative body. He also sits on, and previously chaired, the Irish Funds’ Legal and Regulatory Committee which he has been a member of for a number of years. He is also a former member and co-chair of the International Bar Association’s Asset Management & Investment Funds Committee and regularly attends and speaks at international conferences and other industry events. He is an Associate of the Irish Tax Institute. Brian is also a patron, and a member of the Disbursement Committee, of Basispoint which is a charity established by participants in the Irish funds industry.