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ARTICLE · 29 AUGUST 2025

Investment Limited Partnerships - Key Features

The ILP incorporates standard private fund features including but not limited to: the ability to have a closed-ended structure; excuse and exclude provisions; capital accounts; commitments, capital contributions and drawdowns; defaulting investor provisions; distribution waterfalls and carried interest mechanisms and advisory committees.

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Key features of an Investment Limited Partnership

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURE

The ILP incorporates standard private fund features including but not limited to: the ability to have a closed-ended structure; excuse and exclude provisions; capital accounts; commitments, capital contributions and drawdowns; defaulting investor provisions; distribution waterfalls and carried interest mechanisms and advisory committees. There are no investment or borrowing restrictions applicable to an ILP structured as a QIAIF (except for loan origination funds and funds that invest in crypto and Irish real estate).

EU MARKETING PASSPORT

Where an ILP has appointed an authorised EEA alternative investment fund manager (AIFM), it can avail of the AIFMD marketing passport to market to professional investors throughout the EEA.

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