Ciarán Rogers is a Partner in the Banking and Financial Services Department. He has extensive experience of capital markets (equity and debt), securitisation, structured products and syndicated lending. He is also Head of the Securitisation and Structured Products practice at A&L Goodbody.
Ciarán advised eircom plc on the financing of its €420m acquisition of Meteor Mobile Communications in 2005 and on its €1.3bn flotation in 2004. He recently acted for the arrangers of a highly innovative Tier 1 capital raising by EBS Building Society; the first of its kind in Ireland. He has advised on numerous award winning securitisations including Depfa’s securitisation of its PFI/PPP loan portfolio. He also regularly advises leading investment banks on their structured products and programmes.
Before joining A&L Goodbody, Ciarán worked for 8 years in London and New York for a leading City of London law firm.
He has been recommended as a leading lawyer by various international legal directories. "Ciaran is respected by peers and held in high esteem by clients, who regard him as unflinchingly dependable and always immersed in the deals…he's an incredibly smart guy, very commercial, very much a guy who can get a deal done, very technical, very complex analysis, he's a great lawyer" (IFLR1000 2012). He is "widely acknowledged as a leader in the securitisation and structured finance sector......clients highlight his in-depth knowledge of the regulatory environment and integral understanding of market movements" (Chambers Global 2011) and is "recognised as a leading player in the market" (Legal 500 2011). Ciaran is praised for being "best in class" (Legal 500 2010) and a "top lawyer who offers clients the full range of capital markets expertise" (Chambers Global 2010). "When he's on the case you know it will be good - he's in a different league" (Chambers Global 2009) and that he is "a hugely knowledgeable lawyer" and "one of the country’s top names for capital markets work" (Chambers Global 2008).
He is also recommended in IFLR1000 2009, 2010 and 2011, Best Lawyers 2010, PLC Which lawyer 2009, 2010 and 2011, The Legal 500 2009, Who's Who Legal 2010 and 2011 and is regarded as one of the world's pre-eminent Capital Markets lawyers by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2009 and 2010.