Cormac is a partner in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group. He specialises in the establishment and operation of all types of regulated investment funds, including UCITS and AIFs.
He also advises on the establishment and ongoing regulatory obligations of providers to funds, including management companies, administrators and depositories. Cormac has over 30 years’ experience in the funds industry, the first five of which were in an in-house position with a global funds provider, with the remainder spent in practice with another Irish law firm where he was a senior partner in the asset management and investment funds unit.
Cormac is a former Chair of the Irish Funds Legal and Regulatory Specialist Group, and a member of the European Fund and Asset Management Association Legal Steering Group. He is also a past Chair of the Irish Funds UCITS Regulation and Innovation Working Group, a past Chair of the Irish Funds Marketing Working Group, a past member of the Irish Funds Trustee Working Group and Irish Funds Brexit Working Group.