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There are beneficial ownership requirements relevant for Irish authorised fund management companies and for collective investment schemes structured as companies, ICAVs, unit trusts, CCFs and ILPs. Corporate entities started the filing process with the Irish registrar of beneficial ownership of companies in November 2019 and the Central Bank of Ireland has provided information about the filing pro...

An increase in remote working has brought with it an increase in cybersecurity risks. The Asset Management & Investment Funds team takes a look at the Central Bank of Ireland's expectations around cybersecurity and implications for the Irish investment funds industry.

Amendments to the UCITS and AIFMD legislative frameworks have been proposed on sustainability risks and sustainability factors to be taken into account for UCITS and AIFMs. Management companies will be required to expressly take into account sustainability risks as part of compliance with existing organisational and governance rules and to integrate the sustainability risks in the investment decis...

Lets talk disability: Promoting awareness and understanding.

National regulators will expect a written pricing process to be developed in respect of UCITS and AIFs. This is if the ESMA proposal of 4 June 2020 directed at national regulators is implemented. The aim of the ESMA proposal is to prevent undue costs being charged to investors of UCITS and AIFs. Aside from the documented pricing process, suggestions are made about how national regulators can use t...

The EU Regulation on Sustainability Regulated Disclosures.

The EU Regulation on sustainability‐related disclosures in the financial services sector (the EU Disclosures Regulation) has broad ranging disclosure requirements for financial market participants. You can read the ALG overview of the EU Disclosures Regulation and its relevance for UCITS management companies, UCITS and AIFMs.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published guidelines on performance fees in UCITS and certain types of AIFs which aim to harmonise EU supervisory practices. While generally aligned with current Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) requirements for UCITS, the guidelines are more detailed. Existing UCITS with performance fees will need to analyse whether adjustments will be necessa...

Vincent Power, Head of EU & Competition at A&L Goodbody was interviewed on Newstalk on 22nd March 2017 about the triggering of Article 50 on 29th March. He joined Vincent Wall on the Breakfast Business show and highlighted a combination of legal challenges, elections, an EU tradition of protracted negotiating processes, and even a possible referendum in Ireland as factors which can delay B...

In this soundbite of webinar highlights, partner Anna-Marie Curran discusses how we are moving into an era of increased regulatory scrutiny for transactions in Ireland.

In this soundbite of webinar highlights, Corporate and M&A partners Richard Grey and Darran Nangle discuss trends in Warranty & Indemnity Insurance.

Ireland recently introduced new regulations to amend the examinership regime and codify certain duties of directors when a company is in the zone of insolvency. The European Union (Preventive Restructuring) Regulations 2022 implement aspects of the Directive on restructuring and insolvency which were not already part of Irish law. In this ALG soundbite, Paul White, Partner and Michelle McLoughlin,...

Listen to a summary of our October/November 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

Listen to a summary of our September 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

Listen to a summary of our August 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

Listen to a summary of our July 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

Listen to a summary of our June 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

Listen to a summary of our May 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

Listen to a summary of our April 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

Listen to a summary of our March 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

Listen to a summary of our February 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

Listen to a summary of our January 2022 monthly Asset Management & Investment Funds bulletin. Our team keep you up to date on regulatory developments, providing a unique update on Irish and EU legal and regulatory developments impacting the industry.

To assist companies under pressure during the pandemic, the government extended the time period within which companies may be protected from 100 days to 150 days, provided the company can demonstrate “exceptional circumstances” for needing additional time. This provision of the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Act 2020 came up for consideration in the High Court case of Premier Peri...

The new Corporate Enforcement Authority has been established by Ministerial Order and Ian Drennan has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Authority. In this soundBite, Michelle McLoughlin, Knowledge Lawyer, and Clara Gleeson, Associate on our White Collar Crime team, discuss what's changed and what businesses can expect from the new Authority, as well as recent trends in corporate enforcement...

This ALG soundbite considers the recent case of Mascarenhas v Karim and Anor, where the Court of Appeal upheld a High Court finding of shareholder oppression under section 212 of the Companies Act 2014. Most notably, the Court found that shareholder oppression proceedings under section 212 can be brought against individuals even where they are neither a director nor a shareholder of the company.