Callaghan Kennedy

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 structured finance, securitisation and debt capital markets transactions. He has a wide-ranging transaction and advisory practice, for example covering NPLs, CLOs, risk retention structures, fintech/marketplace, structured products/repacks, SRT, Islamic Finance, trade receivables, commodities and other asset-backed securitisations and novel asset class financings.

Callaghan also advises on fund-linked structures, such as managed account platforms, private credit funds and private credit partnerships, and generally the implementation of asset-backed investment strategies and trades by fund sponsors.

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.

Callaghan is ranked Band Two in the 2025 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 is also ranked as a Leading Lawyer – Highly Regarded in IFLR1000 in both Debt Capital Markets and Structured Finance and Securitisation, and in Legal 500 as a Leading Partner. He was the only structured finance lawyer recognised in the Business Post’s list of the Top 100 legal practitioners in Ireland in 2025.