In this episode from our In The Spotlight 2022 webcast series, our Funds & Investment Management partner, Aaron Mulcahy gives a snapshot of where we are in the AIFMD legislative process focusing on the liquidity management tools...

The evolution of the Irish and Luxembourg fund industries demonstrates that 30 years in the ever-changing world of alternative funds is a very long time.

Ireland Update: Following enhanced scrutiny by the Central Bank in respect of investment by UCITS in CFDs, CLOs, CoCos and binary options

Our latest advisory series considers the key changes being introduced as part of the EU's framework for the cross-border distribution of investment funds.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...