Dualta
Counihan
Partner
Dualta Counihan is a partner in the Asset Management Department at Matheson. He practises financial services law and advises many of the world’s leading financial institutions, investment banks, asset management companies, and service providers carrying on business in Ireland or through Irish vehicles.
Dualta has extensive experience in advising a wide range of international clients on the structuring and establishment of investment vehicles and products in Ireland and their marketing and sale globally. In particular, he advises on the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the establishment of private funds (private credit, private equity and infrastructure) and public funds (mutual funds, alternative and structured UCITS and ETFs) in Ireland.
Areas of Expertise
Education
Dualta’s experience includes advising:
- on the establishment of limited partnerships as private equity, private credit funds and infrastructure funds;
- on the establishment of ELTIFs;
- on the establishment of UCITS, including equity funds, bond funds, structured products and alternative UCITS;
- on the establishment of ETFs, including smart beta and active ETFs;
- on the establishment of common contractual funds as UCITS and Qualifying Investor Funds;
- on the establishment and cross border passporting of UCITS and AIFMD management companies; and
- on the cross-border mergers of an Irish, UK and Luxembourg UCITS.
- University College Dublin (BCL, LLM in Commercial Law)
