Following approval from the European Parliament of the 2-year delay in the adoption of sector-specific European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and ESRS for certain non-EU companies operating...

An AIF can currently take one of five legal forms: unit trust, investment company, common contractual fund ("CCF"), investment limited partnership ("ILP") and Irish collective asset-management vehicle ("ICAV"). Each form of AIF may have open-ended, closed-ended or limited liquidity funds. A comparison of the different structures is set out in the table below.

Cormac Commins, Partner in our Asset Management and Investment Funds Group, has authored an article for Finance Dublin looking at the past 16 years of ETFs in Europe, how the environment for ETFs has evolved and what can be done to increase flows into European ETFs.

On 5 April 2022, the Central Bank of Ireland made further changes to its list of Pre-Approval Controlled Functions under its Fitness and Probity framework.

The latest edition of our Funds Update - Ireland, a quarterly summary of Irish legal & regulatory, tax and listing developments in recent months.

Arthur Cox LLP presents key regulatory developments in European financial services for May 2026, covering the final compromise texts for PSD3 and PSR, the Central Bank of Ireland's integration of crypto-asset...

In an article for a Private Equity Wire special report entitled 'Ireland ILP in Focus 2021'

In this briefing, we examine fitness and probity reforms.

Nicholas Butcher speaks to journalist Elaine O'Regan about his career path to date, his leadership style and some of the tips he's picked up along the way. 20 May 2019.

Following on from our July 2019 article and our 20 September 2019 update on the Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2019 (the "Bill"), consideration of the Bill at Committee Stage in Dáil

It is expected that Corporates will have a three month window, starting from 26 June 2017, in which to file returns to the Central Register without being in breach of the statutory duty to file.

Andrew Quinn, William Fogarty and Lynn Cramer recently wrote an article for Bloomberg Tax where they looked at the measures in the Irish Finance Act which impact international investment and securitisation structures located in Ireland.

The ECB's Governing Council has announced that the launch of its new real-time gross settlement system (TARGET) (the result of the TARGET2-T2S consolidation project),...

In this edition of our Listings Bulletin, we celebrate the successful listings undertaken by clients during a highly challenging 2020, providing a picture of quarterly...

In this short video, Muireann Reedy looks at the Central Bank of Ireland's powers to conduct investigations into suspected market abuse and the sanctions which it can impose.

New Central Bank Regulations governing dealings between regulated entities and SMEs were signed on 17 December 2015.

On 1 December 2021, the Central Bank published cross-industry operational resilience guidelines (the Guidelines) for regulated financial service providers (RFSPs).

In a recent special report on Ireland by the Brussels Research Group which featured in The New York Times

In the second episode in our video series, Cillian and Áine discuss the impact of the recently published European Commission guidance and the ESA proposals to amend SFDR...

SEAR, e-money firms, cryptocurrencies and operational resilience are just some of the topics which Robert Cain, Richard Willis and I discuss in the first of several podcasts and...