Sectors

Finance

Our expertise:

As Ireland’s leading and longest established finance practice, our award-winning lawyers have worked on many of the most innovative financing structures and transactions in the Irish market over many years. We represent both the providers of finance and financial services solutions, as well as corporate borrowers and counterparties.

We advise on the structuring and negotiation of complex and high value financial transactions as well as providing regulatory guidance to market participants, including advising on the perimeters of regulation and the types of activities, products and customers that will trigger different licensing requirements. We also work on structures and arrangements designed to allow our clients do business in innovative, tax-efficient and commercially effective ways.

Key areas:  

We bring a strength and depth of expertise to bear for our clients which enables us to advise on all aspects of our clients’ business connected with their financing transactions or the provision or consumption of financial services. Typical areas on which we advise our clients include:   

• Aircraft, ship and other asset finance
• Leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance and other loan finance
• Capital markets, including covered bonds, hybrid debt securities, private debt placements, asset securitisation
• Derivatives and structured finance
• Financial services regulation and risk management
• Restructuring, workouts and insolvency
• Insurance and reinsurance
• Asset management
• Investment funds
• Stock exchange listing services
• Project finance, including public private partnership and strategic infrastructure
• Loan and asset sales, including loan portfolio transfers
• Tax on financial transactions
• Investigations and inquiries