Dara is a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds Group and is the head of the firm’s Finance Group.

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 is a former member of the Council of the Irish Funds Industry Association and former chair of the Association’s AIF Regulation and AIFMD Reform Working Group.