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Callaghan Kennedy

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OVERVIEW

Callaghan is a partner of Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Dublin office.

He advises arrangers, managers, investors and issuers on a wide range of finance, debt capital markets and structured finance transactions. He focuses particularly on structured products, such as CLOs, trade receivables, SRT and other asset-backed securitisations, commodities, utilities, marketplace lending and novel asset class financings, as well as on the non-performing loan portfolio sector in Ireland. Callaghan also advises on fund-linked structures, such as managed account platforms, private credit funds and asset-backed investment strategies and trades. He regularly advises on wider financial services and regulatory laws that impact structured finance transactions, as well as leading various working groups of the legal sub-committee of the Irish Debt Securities Association on industry matters.

BACKGROUND

Callaghan joined the Maples Group as a trainee in 2009, and upon qualification in 2012, joined the Finance team. He was elected as a partner in 2018.

Callaghan is ranked Band Two in the 2024 Chambers Global Guide in Ireland, with clients attesting: "He is tireless, always working to get clients the best terms on any deal, and will push and negotiate extremely diligently. He is on top of things, organised, attentive, proactive - a really bright lawyer. He makes really complex transactions seem easy" and that " Callaghan has a great view of the market. He always has time to bounce ideas around and is a very pragmatic lawyer."

He has also been ranked as a Leading Lawyer - Highly Regarded in IFLR1000 since 2019 in both Debt Capital Markets and Structured Finance and Securitisation, and has been ranked in Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner since 2019.

Callaghan is a qualified Irish tax advisor.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Callaghan holds a Bachelor of History degree from Princeton University and is a (non-practising) AITI Charted Tax Advisor. He is also the co-chair of the Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee, Ireland. Callaghan has also led and participated in various working groups of the legal sub-committee of the Irish Debt Securities Association.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Finance

Structured Finance

BAR ADMISSIONS

2012 - Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland

EDUCATION

Irish Taxation Institute, Eire, AITI Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA), 2011

Princeton University, USA, BA, History, 2005

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