Alanna Hannon is a Partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds team. She advises clients on a wide range of legal and regulatory investment fund matters in the context of the structuring, establishment, operation and compliance of all types of funds including UCITS and AIFs.
Alanna provides ongoing advices on the UCITS requirements and AIFMD requirements to fund promoters, management companies, investment managers, investment advisors, investment fund boards, administrators and depositaries with such clients based across Europe, Canada and the U.S.
Alanna completed a secondment in the Legal Department of a large US Asset Manager based in London, acting as Irish counsel providing general advices in respect of the expansion management and regulation of their Irish fund range and management company. Alanna currently provides ongoing advices on the UCITS requirements and AIFMD requirements to management companies, investment managers, fund boards and depositaries with such clients based across Europe and the U.S.
Alanna’s representative transactions include:
- Advising a UK asset manager on the authorisation of multiple Irish umbrella UCITS sub-funds with varying strategies, including funds of funds, sustainability focused funds and funds with a complex use of derivatives.
- Advising a UK asset manager on a restructure of its investment management function, to include coordinating the various required approvals and updating the relevant fund documentation.
- Advising a large UK asset manager on multiple changes of service providers for its UCITS.
- Advising a UK asset manager on its cross-border merger of a Lux sub-fund into a newly established sub-fund in its Irish UCITS structure.
- Advising a Lux asset manager on the conversion of its Irish QIAIF from a PLC to an ICAV.
- Advising an Irish manager on the establishment and approval of multiple sub-funds to its QIAIF ICAV platform product involving multiple asset managers.
Advising on the establishment of an Irish super management company with MiFID permissions. - Advising European and non-European asset managers seeking Central Bank of Ireland clearance to act as discretionary investment manager to Irish authorised funds.
