• Financial Services

• Investment Funds
• Asset Management

Conor has significant experience in advising:

• Investors
• Promoters
• Fund managers
• Investment banks
• Anti-money laundering regulations
• Asset managers
• Admisitrators
• Depositaries
• Prime brokers

Authorships

• New proposals to require AIFMs and UCITS managers implement sustainability risks in their organisations (April 2019)
• Irish Funds Permitted to Invest in Chinese Bonds Using China Bond Connect (April 2019)
• Requirement for Trustees to Identify Beneficial Owners (March 2019)

Engagements

• Irish Funds Zurich Seminar: Update on Investment Fund Regulation (Zurich, June 2019)
• Mason Hayes & Curran, Investment Funds: Regulatory Round-up and Outlook (Dublin, May 2019)

Education

• University College Dublin, Bachelor of Civil Law
• University College Dublin, Master of Law (LLM) in Commercial Laws
• Law Society of Ireland, Diploma in Financial Services

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ireland
• Legal and Regulatory Committee of Irish Funds
• International Bar Association

• • Establishing FAM Series UCITS ICAV, an umbrella UCITS platform with multiple sub-funds, investing across different asset classes and investment strategies.
  • Acting for Fineco Asset Management dac on the establishment of a UCITS management company, which is authorised and regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
  • Establishing a UCITS for Vermeer Investment Management Limited.
  • Advising on the establishment of an Irish QIAIF for the acquisition of a private equity investment in a US debt settlement, commercial judgments and factoring business.
  • Representing Appian Asset Management Limited in the establishment of a limited liquidity property fund.
  • Representing Mitsubishi UFJ in its acquisition of UBS’s fund administration business.
  • Establishing a UCITS for Comeragh Capital LLP.
  • Establishing a Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Fund (QIAIF) for an asset manager in the acquisition of Ireland's largest building.
  • Advising closed-ended investment companies organised under the laws of Guernsey on the application of Prospectus Directive and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive to the marketing of securities to institutional investors in Ireland.
  • Representing a leading US credit manager on the establishment of a Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Fund focused on investment in unregulated funds and loan origination activities.
  • Advising ITC Consulting on its strategy for complying with the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive to projects involving the acquisition and development real estate.
  • Establishing a UCITS for a US based asset manager and advising on regulatory issues concerning the adoption of a managed futures strategy by the investment manager.
  • Acting for a leading asset manager in the establishment of UCITS with enhanced levels of leverage of up to 900% of the UCITS’ net assets.
  • Acting for a Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Fund in respect of its authorisation as an internally managed AIFM under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.