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As part of a markets update which was issued yesterday, the Central Bank has published a revised edition of its UCITS Q&A ("Q&A") and has also published a Notice relating to its Fund Management Company Guidance, commonly referred to as CP86.

As an international fund domicile, Ireland ranks amongst the most flexible and advantageous in the onshore world.

Irish investment funds may be sold in Korea by way of public offering or private placement.

These reports will be shared with other jurisdictions participating in the automatic exchange of country by country reports in line with OECD recommendations.

In our May 2015 publication entitled "EU Capital Markets Union", we outlined that the EU Commission had issued a consultation paper entitled "Building a Capital Markets Union".

On 29 July 2016 John Stanley Purcell, a former executive director and secretary of Irish Nationwide Building Society ("INBS"), lost his High Court challenge to the Central Bank's Inquiry process.

During the last thirty-five years Ireland has become a major hub for cross-border distribution and is one of the leading EU "exporting" jurisdictions for investment funds...

A recent English High Court decision clarifies that investor-appointed directors cannot freely share privileged legal documents with their appointing shareholders without explicit company authorization. This ruling challenges common assumptions about information rights in shareholders' agreements and establishes new boundaries for directors navigating dual loyalties between companies and investors.

ESMA has now published further advice in relation to the application of the Passport to non-EU AIFMs and AIFs ("Advice") together with its opinion on the functioning of the passport for EU.

On 30 October 2015, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority published a consultation paper on revised proposals for "Guidelines on product oversight and governance arrangements by insurance undertakings and insurance distributors".

The adoption of a similar system in Ireland will bring merger our procedures in line with these other merger control regimes around Europe.

On 29 September, 2010 the Minister for Finance, Mr Brian Lenihan, TD, signed a Commencement Order bringing the Central Bank Reform Act, 2010 ("the Act") into law with effect from 1 October, 2010.

Undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities ("UCITS") are the most common category of Irish fund that are offered to the public. UCITS are EU-based regulated investment...

As readers will be aware from our previous briefing, the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill (the "Bill") was published in July 2022.

In a move that should be welcomed by mortgage lenders and other interested parties the Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Alan Shatter T.D. published the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013.

Following much debate, the final UCITS V Directive (Directive 2014/91/EU) has now been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Our first and second articles in this series looked at the ways in which the Irish High Court has adapted traditional legal remedies, including injunctions and disclosure orders, as well as equitable remedies...