
Cormac Commins
+353 1 920 1786
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Ten Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
D02 T380
Ireland
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.
He advises on the establishment and ongoing regulatory obligations of providers to funds, including management companies, administrators and depositories. Cormac has over 24 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 current Chair of IF UCITS Regulation and Innovation Working Group, member of IF Brexit Working Group and member of IF UCITS Steering Committee.
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