Alan
Keating
Partner
“Matheson’s real advantage to other Irish firms is Alan Keating in New York. We can have face to face contact, that’s immensely helpful.”
Chambers Europe
Alan Keating is a partner in our Finance and Capital Markets Department and heads the firm’s New York office. Alan has been based in the New York office since 2011.
He advises international companies and financial institutions, asset managers, private equity firms, hedge funds, investment banks, alternative lenders, arrangers, issuers, rating agencies, trustees and investors on all aspects (including restructuring) of debt capital markets, securitisation (cross-border and domestic), structured finance and fund finance transactions.
Experience and Education
Recent highlights include:
- Advising numerous US-based alternative asset managers on the structuring and establishment of US direct lending funds, including the largest $34 billion institutional private credit fund in the market to date.
- Advising on Europe’s first marketplace lending securitisation of UK SME loans originated through one of the largest UK online marketplace lending platforms.
- Acting as issuer legal and tax counsel on European CLO transactions (synthetic and cash, managed and static), including a number of US managers’ debut European CLO transactions.
- Advising US based asset managers, hedge funds and private equity funds on the establishment of Irish investment vehicles for the purposes of acquiring and / or originating (directly or indirectly) a broad range of financial assets in North America and across Europe.
- Advising a global asset manager on the structuring and establishment of a number of multi-billion dollar funds focusing on infrastructure, real estate and credit-related assets.
- Advising a US investment firm on the structuring of a US$300 million investment by a European pension fund in a senior secured loan fund focused on North American borrowers.
- Acting as Irish legal and tax counsel on the European Investment Bank’s first marketplace lending investment.
- Advising asset managers and hedge funds on acquisitions and disposals of non-core or distressed loan portfolios and financial assets.
- Advising many of the world’s leading investment banks on an on-going basis in respect of their ABCP, MTN and repackaging programmes.
- Advising various arrangers on structuring and offering of equity, fund and commodity linked securities.
- Acting as trustee and agency counsel on structured finance transactions.
- Acting as borrower and lender counsel in connection with a number of secured revolving credit facilities.
- Acting as issuer counsel on the acquisition, origination and migration of US life settlement structures
- Advising on ECB eligible ABS transactions.
- Advising an Australian pension fund on its investment in a European CLO.
- Advising Irish corporates on their high-yield bond offerings, including the first ever Eurobond offering by a Bermuda based insurer and reinsurer.
- Advising on numerous sub-line and NAV fund finance transactions.
- Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland
- Qualified as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales (non-practising)
- Irish Tax Institute (Chartered Tax Adviser)
- University College Dublin (LLM in Commercial Law)
- University College Dublin (BBLS)
Experience Highlight
Funding Circle advised on Europe’s First STS Platform Bank Lending Securitisation
