Asset Management and Investment Funds

Asset Management and Investment Funds

Dillon Eustace is a leading legal adviser to the asset management and investment funds sector

Our highly experienced team is led by partners who have been at the forefront of the industry from its beginnings to the present day, building the Firm’s specialist expertise in Ireland and internationally.

We advise international and domestic funds, asset managers, AIFMs and UCITS management companies, banks, insurers, pension funds, supranational organisations, sovereigns, prime brokers and other counterparties, fund administrators and depositaries, securities lending agents and others.

We represent the largest number of Irish domiciled funds (Monterey Insight Ireland Fund Report 2023) and have done so each year since the inception of the Irish funds survey reports in 1994. Our practice also serves a significant number of funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands through our Cayman Islands Office.

Our multi-disciplinary team delivers in-depth knowledge and technical expertise, business understanding and insight with a “can-do” attitude. Our service covers all product types – from traditional UCITS, ETFs, money market funds and alternative UCITS, to the full spectrum of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) such as hedge, funds of funds, real estate, liability driven investment (LDI) funds, ELTIFs,  infrastructure, loan and private equity funds. We advise on product design, authorisation, migration, listing, marketing as well as ongoing general legal, tax and regulatory compliance issues. We work with clients on contract negotiation and their interactions with regulators, stock exchanges and governmental bodies.

Leading international legal directories IFLR 1000, The Legal 500 and Chambers consistently rank Dillon Eustace as a top tier firm underscoring the Firm’s core competence and specialist knowledge in asset management and investment funds. The Firm was named ETF Law Firm of the Year 2023 at the ETF Stream Awards.

We are active contributors to industry bodies, including the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and various committees of Irish Funds as well as several other representative bodies.

Relevant Experience

Advising on the establishment of a UCITS management company, and a UCITS umbrella platform.

Advising on the establishment of an Irish regulated Loan Origination Fund and led the establishment and regulatory authorisation of the fund structure and an Irish acquisition vehicle subsidiary.

Advising on the establishment of an Irish regulated Loan Origination Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Fund.

Advising on the establishment an Irish UCITS platform for a wealth management firm.

Advising on the launch of an European exchange traded fund, which is authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland and listed on the Deutsche Börse in Germany.

Advising on the establishment of an Irish UCITS Indian public equities fund for a Mumbai based investment manager.

The team is truly exceptional, quick to respond and quite aware of the constraints and limitations of the innovation we were launching.

IFLR1000

Dillon Eustace are thoughtful, knowledgeable and collaborative in their approach and a joy to work with. They deliver an acceptable quantity of materials, are always accessible and transparent in their dealings and good at explaining their thinking & approach to challenges.

IFLR1000

The level of expertise from our dedicated fund counsel remains simply second to none. She has an unrivalled response rate and we'd simply be lost without her. The level of service has been and remains so high.

IFLR1000

Dillon Eustace offers a personalised one-on-one service and all the lawyers have very strong knowledge of the Irish market.

Chambers Global

The Dillon Eustace team is highly knowledgeable and willing to propose alternate solutions to meet our needs. It has strong counsel at both the partner and associate level across fund formation, fund finance and tax. The lawyers' responses are always timely.

Chambers Global

Dillon Eustace genuinely see what your problems are and how to help.

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