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The use of investor side-letters to vary the offering terms of an investment fund is perceived to be part and parcel of the private fund industry.

On 5th February 2020 the Anti-Money Laundering (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 were published.

The EU prospectus regime is designed to harmonise the requirements for the drawing up, approval and distribution of prospectuses when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market.

On 15 July 2019, the European Securities and Markets Association issued a consultation paper and draft revised guidelines on certain aspects of the compliance function requirements under MiFID II.

The outbreak of Covid-19 throughout every single EU Member State has resulted economic disruption on a scale which has never been experienced by the EU before. As a result of this disruption...

Following earlier consultations (in December 2014 and April 2016), ESMA has now issued an opinion to EU regulators on the extent to which share classes of the same UCITS fund can differ from one another.

Sustainable finance is the provision of finance to investments taking into account environmental, social and governance considerationsi.

ESMA clarifies in the Opinion that when a trading venue is operating a FBA system and it begins the auction process, as soon as a potential match has been identified, the pre-trade transparency requirements will apply.

The PRIIPs Regulation sets out rules for the content and format of the KID, with the aim of making it easier for retail investors to understand the key features and risks of retail investment products.

The Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 was presented by the Minister for Finance on 1 April 2022 and will now be progressed through the legislative stages in the Oireachtas.

The Product Liability Directive EU 2024/2853 introduces sweeping changes to Irish product liability law, expanding definitions to include software and digital products, introducing new categories of compensable damage, and establishing rebuttable presumptions that shift the burden of proof. How will these modernized protections impact Irish businesses operating in technology, medical devices, and digital services sectors as they navigate increased compliance obligations and extended liability exposure?

The Criminal Justice (Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing) Act, 2010 ("the Act") was signed into law by the President on the 5 May, 2010.

In this latest article in our series on corporate disputes (our earlier briefing on derivative actions can be found here), we look at a recent Commercial Court case...

As you will be well aware, the Central Bank’s Fitness and Probity Standards (the ‘Standards’) have applied to all persons performing Pre-Approval Controlled Functions (‘PCFs’) since December 1, 2011 and to all persons newly appointed to Controlled Functions (‘CFs’) from March 1, 2012.

The decision of Murphy J. in the High Court in Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank v. Finnegan & Ward delivered on the 20th May 2015 represents a challenge to the current Circuit Court regime ...

This follows the publication of a consultation paper 161 by the Central Bank in September 2025 in which it outlined proposed changes to the existing domestic regulatory regime applicable to Irish...

On 17 December 2013, the Irish Minister for Finance published the General Scheme of the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle (ICAV) Bill which will allow for a new corporate structure to be used within the Irish fund industry, sitting alongside the existing public limited company ("PLC") structure.