Experience

Deirdre specialises in Irish financial services taxation law and practice and advises clients on complex tax matters and key transactions from an Irish tax perspective in the financial services tax area, particularly in the debt capital markets/securitisation, investment funds and corporate banking sectors. She advises clients on all pertinent Irish tax issues in the financial services tax sphere including corporation tax, income tax, VAT, stamp duty, and withholding taxes, and has particular expertise in the Automatic Exchange of Information area.

Deirdre also leads the provision of services by the firm to domestic and international clients in connection with Irish tax compliance obligations across all tax heads, direct and indirect. Through her appointment to the Irish Funds FATCA/CRS working group and the Tax Committee of the Law Society of Ireland, she routinely collaborates with the Revenue Commissioners on behalf of industry to ensure workable tax reporting obligations for taxpayers.

Key highlights include advising:

  • Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. on the Irish tax aspects of the acquisition and migration of Ulster Bank’s corporate loan book.
  • NLC Capital Partners LLP on its Irish tax structures.
  • Irish authorised investment funds and investment limited partnerships on all aspects of their Irish taxation obligations.
  • on the potential impact of the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directives, the Multilateral-instrument for BEPS tax treaty measures and the BEPS package generally on Irish structures and transactions involving Ireland.
  • Irish “financial institutions” on both their classification for the purposes of FATCA and CRS/DAC2 and reporting obligations pursuant to the Irish legislation implementing FATCA and CRS/DAC2 in Ireland.
  • on tax reputational risk management.
  • on tax due diligence.