Philip
Lovegrove
Partner
Philip is a partner in the Asset Management Department and has been with Matheson for twenty five years. He specialises in advising on the establishment and operation of investment funds in Ireland.
Philip’s experience includes advising leading international financial institutions and asset management companies on structuring and offering fund products in Ireland and particularly in relation to exchange traded funds, innovative and complex products authorised as UCITS and private assets products.
Areas of Expertise
Experience and Education
- Philip has experience advising:
- on the establishment and operation of market leading active and passive ETF platforms and on all aspects of exchange traded funds;
- on the establishment and authorisation of complex, structured products within the UCITS framework;
- on the establishment of investment funds with sustainable investment a carbon reduction objectives and on funds tracking Paris-Aligned and carbon transition benchmarks;
- the establishment and restructuring of fund platforms for compliance with the updated direct lending framework provided by Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive II;
- the use of multi-manager fund platforms and negotiating related commercial agreements;
- on UCITS products which give investors indirect exposure to commodity markets, loan markets and emerging markets, including the China A Share market, QFII and RQFII and the Stock and Bond Connect programmes;
- the use of derivative instruments for investment purposes at a share class level within UCITS;
- the launch of Irish Shariah investment funds; and
- the acquisition of Irish-based fund servicing businesses.
- Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland
- Trinity College Dublin (Bachelor Hons, Law and German)
