Donnacha O'Connor

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Managing Partner | Dublin
Asset Management and Investment Funds

Donnacha O'Connor is Managing Partner and Partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds team. He specialises in advice on regulatory and structural issues relating to the establishment and management of all types of investment fund structures.

Donnacha has over 20 years’ experience in structuring, establishing and advising Irish regulated investment funds and in providing regulatory advice to financial services firms operating in Ireland. His clients include privately-owned and institutional investment managers representing a wide range of asset classes – including fixed income, equity, credit, hedge, managed futures, real estate, private equity, commodities and insurance linked securities.

Representative transactions include advising:

The formation of a number of Irish funds that specialise in lending, private markets opportunities, concentrated equity investing and sustainable investing.
The formation of a number of MiFID investment management firms and fund management companies in Ireland.
The resolution of a number of disputes involving fund boards, management companies and other service providers.

Donnacha O'Connor

Managing Partner | Dublin
Asset Management and Investment Funds

Donnacha’s representative transactions include advising:

A Swiss oil and energy manager on establishing a commodities UCITS.

On a UCITS that invests exclusively in insurance-linked securities.

A French institutional manager on establishing an alternative investment UCITS platform.

A Spanish manager on establishing a Qualifying Investor non-performing loan fund.

A UK institutional manager on establishing a Qualifying Investor impact/socially responsible private equity fund.

A UK manager on a tail-hedge Qualifying Investor fund.

On establishing an investment fund administrator specialising in the administration of closed-ended funds.

On establishing a UCITS that invests exclusively in listed private equity.

A Swiss manager on establishing a Qualifying Investor long-only equity fund by way of corporate migration of a Cayman Islands fund.

US credit managers on establishing Qualifying Investor funds of funds and feeder funds giving access to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive marketing passport through a structure that mitigates US Effectively Connected Income tax risk.

A multi-lateral trading facility on CRD IV’s capital conservation buffer and countercyclical capital buffer.

An asset manager on the pension scheme arrangement exemption under Article 89(1) of EMIR.

A securities servicing firm on obtaining a derogation from Regulation 22(3)(a) of the European Communities (Alternative Investment Fund Managers) Regulations, 2013, as amended.