Exchange Traded Funds

Exchange Traded Funds ("ETFs")

Combining expert local knowledge and full project management functionality, the Maples Group delivers a comprehensive suite of solutions to ETF issuers and managers. We currently represent more than 210 ETFs and advise 20% of the issuers of Irish-domiciled ETFs including numerous innovative products comprising institutional banks as well as niche issuers.

The team recently won the Finance Dublin Financial Services ETF Deal of the Year 2022 in advising a well-established investment manager firm on their initial expansion into the European ETF market. We were also the recipient of the Finance Dublin ETF Deal of the Year in 2021, involving the cross-border merger of three mutual funds into a newly established umbrella ETF authorised as a UCITS, which represented a novel fund conversion from mutual to exchange-traded.

Our unique experience of having led on the first European mutual fund conversion to an ETF in 2021 required integration of the necessary elements of the ETF ecosystem into a previously existing mutual fund context.

The Maples Group provides a market-leading offering, encompassing legal advice, registration and passporting services as well as assisting clients with applications for admission to list on major stock exchanges in Europe.

We are also at the forefront of the approval process of ETFs with the Central Bank of Ireland and take an active role in industry development on ETF matters through our role on the Irish Funds ETF Working Group and with leadership committee representation as members of Women in ETFs.

For further details on our wider ETF service offering please visit our Global Registration Services and Listing Services pages.