Experience

Ciara focuses her practice on investment funds, advising fund promoters and fund service firms on all matters relating to the establishment, authorisation, operation and ongoing maintenance of funds. Ciara advises on all types of funds, including UCITS and Alternative Investment Funds. She has extensive experience handing matters pertaining to ETFs, alternative or structured UCITS and the use of derivatives and financial indices within the UCITS space. Ciara also advises regularly on sustainable finance issues within the investment funds space.

Ciara is a member of the Irish Funds’ ETF Working Group

Key highlights including

  • Advising a number of international ETF issuers in connection with the establishment of their EU ETF range encompassing a wide range of asset classes and strategies
  • Advising in respect of the on-going maintenance, operations and continued fund launches for a series of ETF ranges for a large international ETF manager.
  • Advising on the establishment authorisation of a white label ETF platform
  • Advising on the establishment and authorisation of a UCITS fund investing in catastrophe bonds