Maples Group Named Top Legal Adviser to Irish-Serviced Funds for 12th Year
Maples and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm, is delighted to announce that its Irish Funds & Investment Management practice has retained its position as the top legal adviser to Irish-serviced funds for the 12th consecutive year as ranked by Monterey Insight. Published this week, the 2024 report reinforces the firm’s reputation as the market-leading adviser to the Irish funds industry.
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Eimear O’Dwyer, Co-head of the Irish Funds & Investment Management practice at the Maples Group, commented on the results: “We are proud to have maintained our position as the largest legal adviser by funds serviced in Ireland for the 12th consecutive year. With 19 specialist investment funds partners as well as 3 tax partners with extensive funds focus and expertise and over 60 full-time specialist investment fund lawyers and other professionals, our Irish Funds & Investment Management Group is the largest dedicated investment funds team of any Irish law firm and that depth of bench reflects the size of our business.
“Working alongside our offices in other key financial markets, including Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, we have an unrivalled view of the global funds and investment management sphere and leverage this unique perspective for the benefit of our clients.”
Adam Donoghue, Co-head of the Irish Funds & Investment Management Group commented on trends for the year ahead: “We expect continued growth in the ETF space. At the other end of the liquidity spectrum, we are seeing more interest in the use of Ireland as a domicile for private assets funds, in particular private credit. We expect that to ramp up as we get closer to the implementation of AIFMD II in 2026, which will introduce a harmonised pan-European regime for direct lending funds, based on the existing Irish regulatory framework.”
Partners in the Maples Group’s Irish Funds & Investment Management practice led by Adam Donoghue and Eimear O’Dwyer also include:
Dublin: Caitriona Carty, Stephen Carty, Ian Conlon, Emma Conaty (Head of Global Registration Services), Ronan Cremin, John Gallagher, Frances Hamilton, Philip Keegan, Deirdre McIlvenna, Aaron Mulcahy, Niamh O’Shea, Lorna Smith, Aoife McDonagh and Peter Stapleton (now Managing Partner).
London: Fearghal de Feu.
Cayman Islands: Pádraig Brosnan and James Meehan.
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