Asset Management and Investment Funds

Dara has acted in a wide range of transactions advising fund promoters, investment managers, financial institutions, service providers and investors on the establishment and operation of all types of investment funds (including UCITS, QIAIFs, ICAVs, closed-ended funds, hedge funds, direct lending funds and private equity funds). Dara sits on the Council of the Irish Funds Industry Association and is a former chair of the Association’s AIF Regulation and AIFMD Reform Working Group.

Member of German Irish Chamber of Commerce.

Dara is a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds Group.

LL B (Ling. Germ.), 1999, Trinity College Dublin; LL M, 2000, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany; Diploma in Financial Services Law and Regulation, 2006, London City University; Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 2003; Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (non-practising), 2010.