Aaron Mulcahy

Aaron is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group’s Dublin office. He advises on a wide variety of legal and regulatory issues facing Irish domiciled collective investment schemes (CIS) and has particular expertise in the establishment, operation and regulation of all types of Irish CIS, including UCITS and AIFs, with a particular focus on private assets and fund tokenisation.

Aaron joined the Maples Group in 2014, having spent the previous four years working in the Dublin office of an international law firm. Prior to this, he worked in a leading Irish law firm, where he also trained.

Aaron’s expertise also extends to the establishment and operation of Irish regulated AIFMs, UCITS management companies, “mega-ManCos”, MiFID investment firms and unregulated 1907 Act limited partnership and SPV structures.

Aaron is an active industry participant. He currently chairs the Irish Funds ELTIF Working Group and previously sat on the Irish Funds ILP Working Group and Money Market Fund Working Group. He contributes to AIMA’s AIFMD 2 working group, with a particular focus on liquidity management and direct lending/ loan origination and EFAMA’s working group focused on ELTIFs. Aaron is a regular contributor to international fund publications and journals. He is also a regular speaker at various industry and client conferences and webinars on ELTIFs, private assets and fund tokenisation.

Aaron is currently ranked by IFLR1000 as a ‘Notable Practitioner’. Clients report he “gets to the nub of the issue quickly, and finds commercial solutions to often complex issues. He has the ability to pre-empt potential regulatory issues before they arise and helps us bring products to the market quicker as a consequence”.