Experience Advising:

• Irish Property Unit Trust on the establishment and authorisation of IPUT plc, the first Irish internally managed alternative investment fund under the AIFM Regulations and the provision of ongoing advice to IPUT plc.
• RBS Asset Management on the merger of its UCITS money market fund range with Goldman Sachs' corresponding Irish fund range.
• Deutsche Bank on the establishment and authorisation of a number of exchange traded funds (ETFs) on their existing Irish umbrella UCITS platform.
• European Investors Inc. and Amadeus Capital Funds plc on that company's conversion to an internally managed UCITS in conjunction with the implementation of changes to each of its administrator, transfer agent and depositary and its compliance with the requirements of UCITS V.
• A US hedge fund on a joint venture with a US property manager for the establishment of an ICAV investing in Irish property.
• A US property manager on the structuring and establishment of an ICAV which was designed for European pension funds and institutional investors to invest in the case of one sub-fund in Irish property and in the case of another sub-fund in European property.
• Coutts & Co on the conversion of an existing corporate UCITS to an ICAV and the launch of several new sub-funds which were used as receiving funds for several UCITS fund mergers with existing Irish and UK UCITS.
• Van Eck Associates on the establishment and authorisation of a UCITS management company and a UCITS exchange traded fund platform.
• A large Swiss multi-national on the establishment of a range of Irish funds including a unit trust and a CCF for investment by their worldwide pension funds.